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Origen's Protreptics to Philosophy: Testimony of Gregory Thaumaturgus in the Oratio Panegyrica, VI
P. 681–689.
St. Gregory’s Address is a unique document depicting a situation of conversion in the early Church. It represents a necessary link between ancient and Christian traditions of exhortation. We show that there is continuity between them, for protreptic motifs of the Address are to a great extent inspired or even directly borrowed from Plato.
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Pichugina V., Schole. Философское антиковедение и классическая традиция 2026 Т. 20 № 1 С. 395–415
Plato's cave is one of the most striking and discussed metaphors not only in Plato's philosophy but in philosophy as a whole. However, the image of the cave as a place associated with the acquisition of new knowledge and the affirmation of one's own opinion appears in Sophocles' Philoctetes, that is, somewhat earlier than in ...
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Braginskaya N., В кн.: «Премудрость построила себе дом..»: Анюте, Анке, Анне Ильиничне Шмаиной-Великановой.: М.: МЦНМО, 2025. С. 39–77.
In Aristotle's definition of tragedy in Poetics, where catharsis suddenly appears without any preparation, every word, preposition, and semantics of the case are commented on with such attention and detail as, perhaps, only the expressions, cases, and letters of the Holy Scriptures. In 1975, A. F. Losev estimated the number of interpretations of catharsis by ...
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Рязанов П. А., Loshkareva M. E., Диалог со временем 2025 № 92 С. 17–32
The article examines the counterarguments of Cardinal Bessarion (1403-1472) in response to accusations of the immorality of Platonism made by the scholar George of Trebizond. George's sharply polemical treatise “Comparatio philosophorum Aristotelis et Platonis”, written in 1458, was at that time the most expressive and defiant attack on the Renaissance Neoplatonists. Honoring Plato as a ...
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Kantor V., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2025 Т. 8 № 3 С. 11–36
In his article, the author examines one of the most diffi cult eras for Russia. Not only had the First World War just ended, but the Spanish flu pandemic swept across Europe, taking more lives than the clashes of armies, then in 1918, at Lenin’s call, Russian radicals turned the imperialist war into the nightmare ...
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Verlinsky Alexander, Hyperboreus 2024 Vol. 30 No. 2 P. 218–238
The second part of the article, dealing with the question of Plato’s own position in
the discussion of naturalism and conventionalism in the Cratylus (for part I, see
Hyperboreus 29: 2 [2022] 196–233), continues with an analysis of a key point in
the discussion between Socrates and Cratylus (434 a – 435 c). Cratylus argues that
when the descriptive ...
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Alieva O., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2025 Т. 9 № 1 С. 397–400
Review of: Corrigan, K. 2023. A Less Familiar Plato: From Phaedo to Philebus. New York: Cambridge University Press. ...
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Alieva O., Вопросы философии 2024 Т. 12 С. 80–95
In the first quarter of the 20th century, Plato’s “Philebus” was fully translated into Russian by N.V. Samsonov, an associate professor at the Moscow University and the The Higher Courses for Women in Moscow. After his premature death in 1921, the text —supplemented with commentaries and, apparently, partially reworked — was published in 1929. Around ...
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Lečić N. D., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2024 Т. 8 № 3 С. 13–34
The article is devoted to the description of a rare example of visual philosophizing in Antiquity, in which the axiologically perfect ordered limit of the Universe is conceived as embracing and locking within itself its less perfect, disordered and ugly internal parts. The article analyzes the testimony of Joannes Stobaeus from the 5th or 6th ...
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Verlinsky Alexander, Hyperboreus 2023 Vol. 29 No. 2 P. 196–233
The paper discusses the results of scholarly debates on Plato’s own position on the issue of naturalism and conventionalism in the Cratylus and attempts to contribute to solving some problems. The author argues that there is no reason to suppose that Plato’s position differs from the one Socrates stands for in the dialogue: it is ...
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Alieva O., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2024 Т. 8 № 3 С. 35–56
The article shows that quantitative methods of text analysis have limited applicability for establishing or refuting the authenticity of texts included in the Platonic corpus. As K. Ritter saw at the end of the 19th century, stylistic proximity to authentic texts does not exclude forgery, and in general the methods of phylogical criticism allow only ...
Added: May 18, 2024
Pichugina V., Hypothekai 2024 № 8 С. 36–54
The article explores the phenomenon of ancient Greek theater, portraying it as a unique space where an entire cityscape unfolded before the eyes of thousands of spectators. Despite its mesmerizing effect, there's ongoing debate about its educational impact. In the first part of the article, sources are analyzed in which ancient authors argue for or ...
Added: May 17, 2024
Alieva O., Платоновские исследования 2024 Т. 20 № 1 С. 11–39
This paper represents the first step towards the construction of a new quantitative model of the Platonic corpus. The first part offers an overview of research positions regarding the origin and chronology of individual dubia and spuria. As an organising scheme for this review, we adopt the geological metaphor of accretion proposed by H. Thesleff. ...
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Sheynov T. G., Человек 2023 Т. 34 № 6 С. 48–64
The most important problem of modern political philosophy is the loss of politics’ independence from other spheres of human activity. Since the beginning of the last century, philosophers have sought to justify the uniqueness of political being and to update the modern political-philosophical vocabulary by redefining the categories of antiquity (e.g. τὸ ᾰ̓γᾰθόν, φῐλία, παρρησία, ...
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Kurdybaylo D., Философский журнал 2023 Т. 16 № 4 С. 106–123
Iamblichus of Chalcis, one of the most prominent Neoplatonists of the third – fourth centuries AD, introduced a list of twelve principal Plato’s dialogues that should have been compulsory studied by his disciples. This list was called the Canon of Iamblichus. However, the survived Iamblichus’ writings contain no information on the Canon; and later Neoplatonists ...
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Skvortsov A., Платоновские исследования 2023 № 19.2 С. 97–117
The article examines the concept of soul introduced in Plato’s dialogues
within the framework of the dialectical circle of cognition described by him. While
passing through the circle, the soul transforms its activity patterns, discovers new
targets for cognition and enters into various interactions with the body. This path
of spiritual development is integrated into the works of Plato ...
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Rezvykh P. V., Платоновские исследования 2023 Т. 18 № 1 С. 171–199
The paper delivers a classification and interpretation of platonic allusions and reminiscences in various versions of F.W.J. Schelling's unfinished treatise from 1810s titled Ages of World. The author distinguishes several groups of allusions related to the key concepts of the treatise. The first one refers to the question on the relation between dialectics and history ...
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Makarova I., Платоновские исследования 2023 № 18(18).1 С. 89–114
In the first book of the lost dialogue On Philosophy, Aristotle raises the question of the principles of wisdom and philosophy. He finds them not only in the teachings of previous philosophers but also in the pre-philosophical anonymous oral tradition, the so-called “popular wisdom”. Aristotle considers maxims and proverbs
not as rhetorical means to give grace or ...
Added: July 29, 2023
Kurdybaylo D., Вестник Русской христианской гуманитарной академии 2022 Т. 23 № 4 С. 51–63
The biblical narrative on the creation of the heaven, firmament and celestial bodies introduced several difficulties for early Christian commentators of Genesis 1 caused by significant contradictions with traditional ancient conceptions of the universe and its inner structure. The Timaeus of Plato and De caelo of Aristoteles had been considered a standard of cosmological discourse ...
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Rezvykh P. V., Тахо-Годи Е., В кн.: Россия - Германия: литературные встречи (после 1945 года).: М.: ИМЛИ РАН, 2022. С. 515–538.
The article raises for the first time the question of scientific contacts between A.F. Losev and the outstanding German classical philologist Bruno Snell (1896–1986). The analysis demonstrates that Russian thinker kept the constant interest in the works of his German colleague during half a century, since the middle of 1920-ies. Losev’s attention to the work ...
Added: November 1, 2022
Pavlov A., Социологическое обозрение 2022 Т. 21 № 1 С. 264–283
The article presents a historical-philosophical study of the book The City and Man published in 1964 by the political philosopher Leo Strauss. Using a large amount of material, the author attempts to assess the place the book holds in Strauss’ legacy. Additionally, the author presents his own interpretation. Highlighting that The City and Man is ...
Added: October 28, 2022
Grünert A., Библия и христианская древность 2022 Т. 14 № 2 С. 57–105
This publication is a continuation of the translation of the Homilies I and II on Psalm 36, which was presented in No. 3 (11) for 2021, and includes a translation of the Homilies III and IV on Psalm 36. The translation is supplemented with commentary and translation of the criti-cal apparatus, which is preceded by ...
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Grünert A., Библия и христианская древность 2021 Т. 11 № 3 С. 71–124
This publication is the first translation from Ancient Greek into Russian of the first two Homilies on Psalm 36 by Origen. In the introduction, the author briefly explains which place the Psalter occupied in the history of the early Church, and also provides some information regard-ing the context in which the homilies were preached. The ...
Added: October 16, 2022
Дмитрий Курдыбайло, Кузютин Денис, Платоновские исследования 2020 Т. 13 № 2 С. 113–137
At the beginning of Plato’s Symposium, Eryximachus introduces a contest for the best encomium to Eros, making the rest of the dialogue a remarkable competition. We consider the seven speeches of the Symposium a kind of competitive game with proper rules, winners, and possibly losers. However, the dialogue provides neither explicit rules of the game, ...
Added: October 3, 2022
Kurdybaylo D., Kurdybaylo I., ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition 2021 Vol. 15 No. 1 P. 53–63
“Socrates’ irony” is a well-known topos even for those readers who are far from ancient philosophy. Dialogues of Plato contain different modes of humour, from mild self-irony to quite sarcastic tones. Plato’s gods are ‘playful,’ they treat people as those were ‘playthings.’ The best way of mortals’ life is to play also, spending their time ...
Added: October 1, 2022