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Dorothea B. Heitsch is Assistant Professor of French and German at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.

In archaic societies the oath is not an explanation given in particular form by an official order, but, at the very most, a selfcondemnation and therefore, together with trial by ordeal and duel, a means to ending serious conflicts. In the early Greek epos there is only one single paragraph that still testifies to such a regulation ; and less than 200 years later Xenophanes describes what happens when in the legal reality of more secular/enlightened societies the old piece of (...) evidence remains preserved. (shrink)

Thema des Charmides, einem der fruhen Dialoge Platons, ist die Frage: "Was ist Besonnenheit?" Ernst Heitsch und Franz von Kutschera nahern sich dem Dialog auf unterschiedliche Weise und diskutieren verschiedene Aspekte.