Στό παλαιοχριστιανικό κοιμητήριο τῆς Σάμου πού βρίσκεται στό Τηγάνι, βρέθηκαν κατά τίς ἀνασκαφές τοῦ 1969-72 ἀπό τόν Κων. Τσάκο περί τά 400 λυχνάρια πού χρονολογούνται ἀπό τόν 4° μέχρι καί τόν 7° αιώνα μ.Χ. Τά περισσότερα λυχνάρια ἀνήκουν στόν τύπο τῶν λεγομένων Μικρασιατικῶν Λυχναριῶν. Εἶναι πολύ πιθανό νά υπήρχε καί στή Σάμο κάποιο ἐργαστήριο λυχναριών αὐτοῦ τοῦ τύπου. Μιά ὁμάδα ἀπό 23 Λύχνους ἔχει ἐισαχθεί ἀπό τήν 'Αθήνα. Χρονολογούνται ἀπό τόν 3° μέχρι καί τόν 6° ἀιώνα μ.Χ. Τρία ἀπ' αὐτά (...) προέρχονται ἀπό την Κύπρο. Τά δύο ἀνήκουν στό ἐργαστήριο τοῦ ΕΤΤΥΧΗΤΟΥ πού ἤκμασε τόν 4° ἀιώνα μ.Χ. Τέλος ἔνα ἀκέραιο λυχνάρι καί τμήματα ἀπό τόν δίσκο ἄλλων δύο λύχνων προέρχονται ἀπό τό ἐργαστήριο τής Β. Αφρικῆς. Ἄνήκουν στόν Τύπο Α. II τοῦ J. W. Hayes καί χρονολογούνται στόν 5° ἀιώνα μ.Χ. (shrink)

What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative? This book presents an original answer to this question through the novel position of substantival structuralism, arguing that quantitativeness is an irreducible feature of attributes, and quantitative attributes are best understood as substantival structured spaces.

The idea that immoral behaviour can sometimes be admirable, and that moral behaviour can sometimes be less than admirable, has led several of its supporters to infer that moral considerations are not always overriding, contrary to what has been traditionally maintained. In this paper I shall challenge this inference. My purpose in doing so is to expose and acknowledge something that has been inadequately appreciated, namely, the moral aspect of nonmoral goods and evils. I hope thereby to show that, even (...) if immorality can be admirable, this poses no threat to morality. (shrink)

_The Foundations of Arithmetic_ is undoubtedly the best introduction to Frege's thought; it is here that Frege expounds the central notions of his philosophy, subjecting the views of his predecessors and contemporaries to devastating analysis. The book represents the first philosophically sound discussion of the concept of number in Western civilization. It profoundly influenced developments in the philosophy of mathematics and in general ontology.

In recent years a novel picture of Mably's thought has begun to emerge within Anglo-American scholarship, suggesting perhaps a constructive alternative to both the �radical� and the �conservative� interpretations. On this reading, Mably should be seen as neither a proto-socialist nor a reactionary thinker, but as a republican -- a classical republican, in fact, whose writing represents a later Gallic contribution to the political tradition founded by Machiavelli and Harrington.3 In fact, nothing is more obvious to any reader than the (...) absolute centrality of the reference to Graeco-Roman antiquity in his writings, from beginning to end -- with precisely that celebration of the �mixed governments� of Sparta and Rome, and intense preoccupation with the politics of �virtue�, that we have come to associate with the civic humanist tradition. The object of this essay is to provide a brief introduction to this �new� Mably. It will do so chiefly through an examination of a single work, albeit a pivotal one in Mably's career. Entretiens de Phocion, a dialogue first published in 1763, introduced in print for the first time most of the major themes of his mature thought; and it remained by far the most popular work to appear in his lifetime. A brief look at it should give us the opportunity to test the cogency of the civic humanist reading of Mably's thought, as well as to suggest something of thespecific character of the French contribution to the �Atlantic republican tradition�. (shrink)