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Ἔρως προτρέπων: Philosophy and Seduction in the Symposium
P. 132–139.
The scope of this paper is to provide some literary background for Pausanias’ speech in the Symposium and, against this background, to reconsider the notion of Ἔρως προτρέπων in the dialogue. I assume that one of Plato’s purposes in this dialogue was to question the protreptic function of Eros as understood in Antisthenes.
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Sankt Augustin: Aсademia Verlag, 2016.
Alieva O., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 30 С. 61–76
This article proposes a novel interpretation of a difficult passage in the famous Digression in the Theaetetus (175e). The disputed expression ἀναβάλλεσθαι ἐπιδέξια is traditionally understood either as “to wear one’s coat as a gentleman” (McDowell) or as “to strike up an elegant tune like a free man” (Rowe). However, these readings are problematic both ...
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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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Alieva O., Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 3: Филология 2025 Т. 84 С. 54–85
Despite the criticism, the standard chronology of Plato’s works continues to hold sway not only over “developmentalists”, but also over various types of “unitarians”. The authority of the standard chronology rests on the confidence that the division of the dialogues into three groups has been “proven” with quantitative methods. In addition to the general theoretical ...
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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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Makarova I., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2025 Т. 9 № 1 С. 349–393
This publication presents a translation of the third book of Aristotle’s dialogue “On Philosophy” (Περὶ φιλοσοφίας), which was lost in late antiquity and has since been reconstructed, along with an accompanying explanatory introduction. In the third book of “On Philosophy”, Aristotle raises questions about the nature of the soul and the world, as well as ...
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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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Верлинский А. Л., СПб.: изд-во филологического факультета СПбГУ, 2006.
This book, which appeals to those who are interested in the history of ancient philosophy
and in linguistic theories, is devoted to classical doctrines of the origin of language from
their beginning in the 5th century ВС up to the theories of the Hellenistic time. Apart from a
detailed reconstruction of Democritus' and Epicurus' doctrines, which represent the
evolutionist ...
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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 ...
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