Le propos de cet ouvrage, issu d’une thèse dirigée par Margherita Isnardi Parente, Gabriele Giannantoni et Anna Maria Ioppolo et soutenue en 1997, est d’abord de combler une lacune en présentant plusieurs platoniciens du iie s. apr. J.-C. négligés jusqu’à maintenant par la communauté savante. Il s’agit de ceux dont il ne nous reste que quelques témoignages (Gaius, Albinus, Harpocration) et parfois aussi quelques fragments (Lucius, Nicostrate, Calvinus Taurus, Severus), dont certains d’ailleur...

Festschrift in honor of 60th birthday of Āgamānaṅdasvāmikaḷ, 1896-1961; collection of his speeches and writings on Vedanta and other aspects of Hindu philosophy.

Of all the arguments for the existence of God, the argument from design is in many respects the most impressive, as everyone remarks that Kant remarked. Certainly it is an argument which seems to have appealed to the popular imagination and even today does not lack philosophical proponents. The purpose of the present paper is to examine a recent formulation of the argument. In particular I shall be concerned to bring into the open its dualist assumptions and to show how (...) these militate against its general plausibility. (shrink)

We have to distinguish between the scientific revolution which was bound on the work of Copernicus and the cultural-ideological changes that have accompanied and framed this revolution. The "Copernican" revolution was in the beginning a constituent of cultural and ideological changes at the end of Renaissance but it became a scientific revolution only with Galilei and Kepler. This was the first scientific revolution which inagurated the internal dynamics of the scientific development. A necessary condition of that revolution was the incorporation (...) of a consistent physical dynamics into astronomy. This happened with the formulation of Kepler's laws and the Galilei's postulates of relative movements, the law of inertia and of free fall, which are valid for all physical cosmos. (shrink)