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The Zoogonies of Empedocles Reconsidered 《恩培多克勒斯的动物总动员
0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/rhiz-2021-0001
Chiara Ferella
Abstract The studies of Empedocles have made headway in showing that Empedocles postulated a double zoogony. Whereas this has been traditionally related to the hypothesis of two worlds per cycle, some Empedoclean fragments provide evidence for a double zoogony in a cosmic cycle with one world. How can we reconcile the hypothesis of two zoogonies with the assumption of a unique world? Whereas there have been attempts to address this question by retaining the traditional idea of two opposite zoogonic periods or phases, I contend that Empedocles’ fragments invite us to a reconsideration of his notion of a double birth and death of mortal beings.
摘要对恩培多克勒斯的研究取得了进展,证明了恩培多克勒斯假设了一种双重动物。传统上,这与每个周期有两个世界的假设有关,而一些恩培多克林的碎片提供了一个宇宙周期有一个世界的双重动物的证据。我们如何调和两种动物的假设和一个独特世界的假设?尽管有人试图通过保留两个相反的动物周期或阶段的传统观点来解决这个问题,但我认为恩培多克勒斯的片段邀请我们重新考虑他关于凡人双重出生和死亡的概念。
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Getting Younger 年轻化
0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/rhiz-2021-0004
Danielle Vazquez
Abstract I argue that in Plato’s Parmenides 141a6–c4, things in time come to be simultaneously older and younger than themselves because a thing’s past and present selves are both real. As a result, whatever temporal relation is predicated of any of these past and present selves is true of the thing in question. Unlike other interpretations, this reading neither assumes that things in time have to replace their parts, nor that time is circular. I conclude that the passage is committed to a conception of the ongoing present and a rejection of presentism and endurantism in favour of a growing universe theory and perdurantism.
在柏拉图的《巴门尼德》(Parmenides) 141a6-c4中,我认为时间中的事物会同时比自己年长和年轻,因为一个事物的过去和现在的自我都是真实的。因此,任何一个过去和现在的自我的时间关系都是正确的。与其他解释不同,这种解读既不假设时间中的事物必须更换它们的部分,也不假设时间是循环的。我的结论是,这篇文章致力于一个持续的现在的概念,并拒绝了现在主义和持久主义,赞成一个不断发展的宇宙理论和持久主义。
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The First City and First Soul in Plato’s Republic 柏拉图《理想国》中的第一城和第一灵魂
0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/rhiz-2021-0003
Jerry Green
Abstract One puzzling feature of Plato’s Republic is the First City or ‘city of pigs’. Socrates praises the First City as a “true”, “healthy” city, yet Plato abandons it with little explanation. I argue that the problem is not a political failing, as most previous readings have proposed: the First City is a viable political arrangement, where one can live a deeply Socratic lifestyle. But the First City has a psychological corollary, that the soul is simple rather than tripartite. Plato sees this ‘First Soul’ as an inaccurate model of moral psychology, and so rejects it, along with its political analogue.
柏拉图《理想国》的一个令人困惑的特征是第一城或“猪之城”。苏格拉底称赞第一城是一座“真正的”、“健康的”城市,而柏拉图却没有给出什么解释就抛弃了它。我认为,问题不在于政治上的失败,正如之前大多数阅读材料所提出的那样:第一城市是一种可行的政治安排,在那里人们可以过一种深刻的苏格拉底式生活方式。但《第一城市》有一个心理推论,灵魂是简单的,而不是三位一体的。柏拉图认为这个“第一灵魂”是道德心理学的一个不准确的模型,因此拒绝了它,以及它的政治类比。
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Aristotle on Flight: Air as an External Resting Point 亚里士多德论飞行:空气是一个外部的休息点
0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/rhiz-2021-0006
Daniel Coren
Abstract I reconstruct Aristotle’s explanation for why and how birds are capable of natural flight. For Aristotle, air is a markedly different external resting point in comparison with water and earth, and nature has designed birds so as to take advantage of the unique way in which air affects the inequality between (a) the pushing downward, that is, the downward force and (b) the resistance. My discussion sheds some light on Aristotle’s anticipation of some aspects of modern fluid dynamics and aerodynamics.
本文对亚里士多德关于鸟类为何以及如何能够自然飞行的解释进行了重构。对亚里士多德来说,与水和土相比,空气是一个明显不同的外部静止点,大自然设计鸟类是为了利用空气影响(a)向下的推力(即向下的力)和(b)阻力之间的不平等的独特方式。我的讨论揭示了亚里士多德对现代流体动力学和空气动力学某些方面的预期。
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The Playful Role of the Girl in Empedocles’ B100 《恩培多克勒》中女孩的戏谑角色
0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/rhiz-2021-0002
Nathasja van Luijn
Abstract Empedocles’ B100 contains an analogy between a girl handling a clepsydra and respiration. This article argues that proposals to establish Love (Bollack 1965, Gheerbrant 2017) or Persephone (Rashed 2008) as the girl’s respiratory equivalent are rendered unlikely by differences between their respective causal roles. Rather than her gender, this article emphasises the importance of the girl’s age: Empedocles required a playful child to handle the clepsydra. This child’s play results in the extra phase of submerging the clepsydra while the upper vent is open, which Empedocles needed to form a parallel for the first static phase of respiration.
恩培多克勒斯的B100包含了一个女孩处理漏壶和呼吸之间的类比。本文认为,将Love (Bollack 1965, Gheerbrant 2017)或Persephone (Rashed 2008)建立为女孩的呼吸等同物的建议由于各自因果作用的差异而变得不太可能。这篇文章强调的不是女孩的性别,而是女孩的年龄:恩培多克勒斯需要一个顽皮的孩子来处理漏壶。这个孩子的游戏导致了额外的淹没漏壶的阶段,而上面的通风口是打开的,恩培多克勒斯需要形成一个平行的呼吸的第一个静态阶段。
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Drafted into a Foreign War? 被征召参加对外战争?
0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/rhiz-2020-0009
M. Sharpe
Abstract This paper examines the central criticisms that come, broadly, from the modern, ‘analytic’ tradition, of Pierre Hadot’s idea of ancient philosophy as a way of life.: Firstly, ancient philosophy just did not or could not have involved anything like the ‘spiritual practices’ or ‘technologies of the self’, aiming at curing subjects’ unnecessary desires or bettering their lives, contra Hadot and Foucault et al. Secondly, any such metaphilosophical account of putative ‘philosophy’ must unacceptably downplay the role of ‘serious philosophical reasoning’ or ‘rigorous argument’ in philosophy. Thirdly, claims that ancient philosophy aimed at securing wisdom by a variety of means including but not restricted to rational inquiry are accordingly false also as historical claims about the ancient philosophers. Fourthly, to the extent that we must (despite (3)) admit that some ancient thinkers did engage in or recommend extra-cognitive forms of transformative practice, these thinkers were not true or ‘mainline’ philosophers. I contend that the historical claims (3) and (4) are highly contestable, risking erroneously projecting a later modern conception of philosophy back onto the past. Of the theoretical or metaphilosophical claims (1) and (2), I argue that the second claim, as framed here, points to real, hard questions that surround the conception(s) of philosophy as a way of life.
摘要本文考察了主要的批评,广泛地说,来自现代的,“分析”的传统,皮埃尔·哈多的古代哲学作为一种生活方式的想法。首先,与哈多和福柯等人相反,古代哲学没有也不可能涉及“精神实践”或“自我技术”之类旨在治愈主体不必要欲望或改善其生活的东西。其次,任何这种假定的“哲学”的形而上学描述都必须不可接受地低估“严肃的哲学推理”或“严格的论证”在哲学中的作用。第三,声称古代哲学旨在通过各种手段(包括但不限于理性探究)来获得智慧,因此,对古代哲学家的历史主张也是错误的。第四,在某种程度上,我们必须(尽管(3))承认一些古代思想家确实参与或推荐了超认知形式的变革实践,这些思想家不是真正的或“主流”哲学家。我认为,历史观点(3)和(4)是非常有争议的,有可能错误地将后来的现代哲学概念投射到过去。关于理论的或形而上学的主张(1)和(2),我认为,正如这里所提出的,第二个主张指出了围绕哲学作为一种生活方式这一概念的真实的、困难的问题。
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Analytic Philosophy, the Ancient Philosopher Poets and the Poetics of Analytic Philosophy 分析哲学,古代哲学家诗人和分析哲学的诗学
0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/rhiz-2020-0008
C. Rowett
Abstract The paper starts with reflections on Plato’s critique of the poets and the preference many express for Aristotle’s view of poetry. The second part of the paper takes a case study of analytic treatments of ancient philosophy, including the ancient philosopher poets, to examine the poetics of analytic philosophy, diagnosing a preference in Analytic philosophy for a clean non-poetic style of presentation, and then develops this in considering how well historians of philosophy in the Analytic tradition can accommodate the contributions of philosophers who wrote in verse. The final part of the paper reviews the current enthusiasm for decoding Empedocles’ vague and poetic descriptions of the cosmic cycle into a precise scientific periodicity on the basis of the recently discovered Byzantine scholia on Aristotle. I argue that this enthusiasm speaks to a desire for definite and clear numerical values in place of poetic motifs of give and take, and that this mathematical and scientific poetic is comparable to the preferred poetic of analytic philosophy.
本文首先对柏拉图对诗人的批判以及许多人对亚里士多德诗观的偏爱进行了反思。论文的第二部分以古代哲学的分析方法为例,包括古代哲学家诗人,来检验分析哲学的诗学,诊断分析哲学对一种干净的非诗意风格的表现的偏好,然后在考虑分析传统的哲学史如何能够很好地容纳以诗歌写作的哲学家的贡献时发展这一点。论文的最后一部分回顾了当前的狂热,将恩培多克勒对宇宙周期的模糊而诗意的描述解码为精确的科学周期,这是基于最近发现的拜占庭学派对亚里士多德的研究。我认为,这种热情表明了一种对明确而清晰的数值的渴望,而不是对给予和接受的诗歌母题的渴望,这种数学和科学的诗歌可以与分析哲学所偏爱的诗歌相媲美。
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The Pursuit of Parmenidean Clarity 追求巴门尼德式的明晰
0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/rhiz-2020-0010
J. Bryan
Abstract This paper reconsiders the debates around the interpretation of Parmenides’ Being, in order to draw out the preconceptions that lie behind such debates and to scrutinize the legitimacy of applying them to a text such as Parmenides’ poem. With a focus on the assumptions that have driven scholars to seek clarity within the notoriously ambiguous verse of the poem, I ask whether it is possible to develop an analysis of Parmenides’ Being that is sympathetic both to his clear interest in argument, logic, knowledge and truth and to his ambiguous expression and cultural and literary resonances.
本文重新考虑了围绕巴门尼德《存在》解释的争论,以引出这些争论背后的先入之见,并仔细审查将它们应用于巴门尼德诗歌等文本的合法性。关注那些驱使学者们在这首诗中臭名昭著的模棱两可的诗句中寻求清晰的假设,我问是否有可能对巴门尼德的存在进行分析,既同情他对论证,逻辑,知识和真理的明确兴趣,也同情他模棱两可的表达以及文化和文学的共鸣。
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Plato’s Theaetetus and the Hunting of the Proposition 柏拉图的《提阿得图》和《命题的狩猎
0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/rhiz-2020-0012
L. Brown
Abstract Section 1 contrasts the approaches to Plato of F.M.Cornford and Gilbert Ryle, two of the early twentieth century’s leading Plato interpreters. Then I trace and evaluate attempts to discern in Plato’s Theaetetus a recognition of the role of the proposition. Section 2 focuses on the hunting of the proposition in Socrates’ Dream in the Theaetetus. Ryle, inspired by Logical Atomism, argued that Plato there anticipated an insight about the difference between names and propositions that Russell credited to Wittgenstein. I rehearse difficulties for understanding the logos of the Dream as a proposition, preferring a reading of logos there as something like definition: a reading Wittgenstein also adumbrated. Section 3 examines attempts by writers such as Burnyeat and Kahn to find Plato allocating a starring role to the proposition in the argument at Theaetetus 185–6: perception, since it cannot grasp being, cannot grasp truth and hence cannot be knowledge. On their reading a grasp of being is understood as a grasp of something propositional. Problems for the propositional reading include Socrates’ talk of grasping ‘the truth of something’ (alētheia tinos), and the way the dialogue develops after 186.
第一节比较了f.m.c orford和Gilbert Ryle两位二十世纪早期柏拉图的主要诠解者对柏拉图的解读方法。然后我追溯并评价柏拉图在《提阿泰德篇》中对命题作用的认识。第二部分着重于苏格拉底在《泰阿泰德》中的“梦”命题的追寻。莱尔受到逻辑原子论的启发,认为柏拉图在那里预见到了名称和命题之间的区别,罗素认为这是维特根斯坦的功劳。我预演了将梦的逻各斯理解为命题的困难,我更倾向于将逻各斯解读为某种类似定义的东西:维特根斯坦也预示了这种解读。第三部分考察了Burnyeat和Kahn等作家的尝试,他们发现柏拉图在Theaetetus 185-6的论证中为命题分配了一个主角角色:感知,因为它不能掌握存在,不能掌握真理,因此不能成为知识。在他们的阅读中,对存在的把握被理解为对某种命题的把握。命题阅读的问题包括苏格拉底关于抓住“某事的真理”的谈话(alētheia tinos),以及186页之后的对话发展方式。
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Paying the Price: Contextualizing Exchange in Phaedo 69a–c 付出代价:斐多篇69a-c的语境化交换
0 PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/rhiz-2020-0011
K. Morgan
Abstract This paper uses a problematic passage at Phaedo 69a–c as a case study to explore the advantages we can gain by reading Plato in his cultural context. Socrates argues that the common conception of courage is strange: people fear death, but endure it because they are afraid of greater evils. They are thus brave through fear. He proposes that we should not exchange greater pleasures, pains, and fears for lesser, like coins, but that there is the only correct coin, for which we must exchange all these things: wisdom (phronēsis). Commentators have been puzzled by the precise nature of the exchange envisaged here, sometimes labelling the coinage metaphor as inept, sometimes describing this stretch of argument as “religious” and thus not to be taken seriously. The body of the paper looks at (1) the connection between money and somatic materialism, (2) the incommensurability in Plato of financial and ethical orders, (3) financial metaphors outside Plato that connect coinage with ethics, (4) intrinsic and use values in ancient coinage, and (5) Athenian laws on coinage, weights, and measures that reflect anxiety about debased coins in the fifth and early fourth centuries. It sees the Phaedo passage as the product of a sociopolitical climate which facilitated the consideration of coinage as an embodiment of a value system and which connected counterfeit or debased currency with debased ethical types. Athenians in the early fourth century were much concerned with issues of commensurability between different currencies and with problems of debasement and counterfeiting; understanding this makes Socrates’ use of coinage metaphors less puzzling. Both the metaphor of coinage and the other metaphors in this passage of the Phaedo (painting and initiation) engage with ideas of purity, genuineness, and deception. Taken as a group, these metaphors cover a large area of contemporary popular culture and are used to illustrate a disjunction between popular and philosophical ways of looking at value.
本文以《斐多篇》中一段有问题的段落为例,探讨在柏拉图的文化背景下阅读柏拉图的好处。苏格拉底认为,勇气的普遍概念是奇怪的:人们害怕死亡,但忍受它,因为他们害怕更大的邪恶。他们因此在恐惧中变得勇敢。他建议,我们不应该像硬币一样,用更大的快乐、痛苦和恐惧来交换更小的快乐、痛苦和恐惧,而只有一种正确的硬币,我们必须用所有这些东西来交换:智慧(phronēsis)。评论人士一直对这里设想的交流的确切性质感到困惑,有时给造币比喻贴上无能的标签,有时把这种争论的延伸描述为“宗教”,因此不值得认真对待。本文的主体研究了(1)金钱和躯体唯物主义之间的联系,(2)柏拉图的金融和伦理秩序的不可通约性,(3)柏拉图之外的金融隐喻,将铸币与伦理联系起来,(4)古代铸币的内在和使用价值,以及(5)雅典关于铸币、重量和度量的法律,反映了五世纪和四世纪早期对贬值硬币的焦虑。它将斐多篇看作是社会政治气候的产物这种气候促使人们将铸币视为一种价值体系的体现并将伪造或贬值的货币与堕落的道德类型联系起来。四世纪早期的雅典人非常关注不同货币之间的通约性以及货币贬值和伪造的问题;理解了这一点,苏格拉底使用新词隐喻就不那么令人费解了。在斐多篇的这一段中,造币的隐喻和其他隐喻(绘画和启蒙)都涉及到纯洁,真诚和欺骗的概念。作为一个整体,这些隐喻涵盖了当代流行文化的大部分领域,并被用来说明流行和哲学看待价值的方式之间的脱节。
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