Mikhail Iglin What is the relation between a community and its individual members? Plotinus (204/5–270 CE), widely regarded as the last of the great Greek philosophers, inherited this age-old problem ...

Held as a part of the Villanova Philosophy Department’s Speaker’s Series, Villanova Ph.D. alumnus Michael Shaw (‘06) returned ...

I have broad interests in ancient Greco-Roman philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the Patristics, but my current projects focus on Aristotle's metaphysics and natural philosophy, especially his modal ...

In particular, we ask how it was that the received narrative of philosophy as a direct succession from the pre-Socratics to Russell and Frege, or to Heidegger, became established? How, when, and why ...

Much like the pre-Socratics then, competing groups—and their champions—prosecute their cases. Their ways are the right ways. Those professing different views and lifestyles must be controlled.

In particular, we ask how it was that the received narrative of philosophy as a direct succession from the pre-Socratics to Russell and Frege, or to Heidegger, became established? How, when, and why ...

The book is divided into five sections - 'The Classical Greeks; Pre-Socratics and Pythagoreans, Cynics and Stoics; Nietzsche and the Platonic Tradition; Contestations; and German Classicism' - and ...

from the pre-Socratics to contemporaries such as Slavoj Žižek and Martha Nussbaum. He treats the philosophical claims of any given thinker, however outdated, within the sense-making texture of ...