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  • Hope from Melos. A contribution to the debate on the concept of elpis

    Hope from Melos. A contribution to the debate on the concept of elpis

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    At the turn of 416/15 BCE, Athens, still at the height of its power, completely destroyed Melos, a small polis in the Aegean Sea. In his account of the negotiations preceding the invasion, Thucydides (Peloponnesian War, V 84-116) repeatedly invokes the concept of hope (elpis). The citizens of Melos associate it with the wisdom of the Athenians, with the support of Sparta, with a lucky coincidence, with the principles of justice, and finally with the help of the gods. However, all these expectations fail. Thucydides seems to suggest that having hope is...

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  • Humanism – a lost idea

    Humanism – a lost idea

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    The idea of ​​humanism is a vital idea in European culture, and at the same time it is burdened with ambiguity on one hand and, on the other , with a multitude of philosophical and ideological developments. The author of the book presents the aforementioned ambiguity and multiplicity by proposing her interpretive key, which allows us to identify the most important contents of such a heterogeneous and changing concept, to separate ideological humanism from philosophical humanism, and to dispel the hopes that hitherto been held for the revival of the idea of...

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  • Ethics and Contingency. Bernard Williams` Project of Anti-Theoretical Ethics

    Ethics and Contingency. Bernard Williams` Project of Anti-Theoretical Ethics

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    The book aims to reconstruct and critically analyze Bernard Williams` project of anti-theoretical ethics. I try to overcome the interpretative difficulties generated by the specific features of the British philosopher`s thought –  his skepticism, multiple, essayistic form of expression - assuming the hypothesis that this project can be explicated and accurately captured only in relation to its epistemological, metaphysical, anthropological and metaphilosophical premises. The book contains five chapters.

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