Journal of Ancient Philosophy
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description: The Journal of Ancient Philosophy is an e-journal published by the Department of Philosophy of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP, Brazil). It was founded in 2007 and publishes articles, reviews and textual notes on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, as well as translations of classical texts into Portuguese or Spanish. The journal also intends to provide information about Latin American symposia, meetings and conferences on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. It is published twice a year, in May and October. The purposes for which the Journal of Ancient Philosophy was created are to foster classical studies in Latin America, providing scholars a vehicle for the publication of researches and discussions, and to promote international dialogue across different languages and approaches. It is open to all scholars worldwide to submit contributions for inclusion in this Journal. The accepted languages are: Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, German and Italian. Every contribution is evaluated by a double-blind, peer-review process. This Journal considers plagiarism as a very serious offense against academic research, and consequently will take all measures to protect its publications from it, aiming at ensuring originality in any paper published by this Journal. This Journal will not condone plagiarism under any circumstances. Please report to www.fapesp.br/6566 for a theoretical assessment of plagiarism, and www.fapesp.br/6574 for practical and general information on sound academic practices of quotation and publication. We fully agree with the proposals put forward by Fapesp in these documents. Likewise, submissions that have their origin in artificial intelligence (AI) programs are not considered academically relevant. As we know, such programs are not capable of bringing original contributions to the field of study to which the Revista de Filosofia Antiga is dedicated. All contributions originating from AI tools will be disregarded. Abstracted / Indexed in: Philos…
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publication name: Journal of Ancient Philosophy
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items: https://revistas.usp.br/filosofiaantiga/en/article/view/201055
items: Revisiting the “longer way” and the “shorter way” in Plato’s Republic
items: Beyond technē: Thrasymachus, legitimacy, and the appearance of justice: a reply to Menezes
items: Intelectualismo socrático no tratado aristotélico Magna Moralia: tradução dos excertos e comentários
items: Il Fedro o del νοῦς. Sulla possibilità di un’emotività intellettiva.
items: Reincarnation in the Speech of Aristophanes
items: Teleology in the coordination of the whole in Metaphysics Λ10
items: Plato’s Conception of Pleonexia as Structural Excess
items: Εργου καιρον: notas de Marx sobre a divisão do trabalho em Platão
items: Laura Liliana Gómez Espíndola, Aristóteles. Necesidad y responsabilidad moral, Cali: Universidad del Valle – Programa Editorial, 2024, p. 334.
items: L’argomento del terzo uomo (TMA) e Platone
items: Hylomorphism from Aristotle to Descartes – a review of a recent book on the history of hylomorphism
items: Has εὐβίοτος in Aristotle’s Historia Animalium ix Been Mistranslated?
items: Experiencing failure: the twofold cause of error in Stoicism
items: Aristotle, Metaph. Γ4 1008b2-1009a5 Revisited: πάντες ὑπολαμβάνουσιν ἔχειν ἁπλῶς (Appendix with new text, translation and commentary)
items: The First Approach to Essence in Aristotle's Research on Substance (Metaphysics VII 4 - Portuguese Translation with Notes)
items: Três traduções recentes de Aristóteles para a língua nacional: uma da Metafísica e duas da Ética Nicomaqueia
items: Aristóteles, Primeiros Analíticos II, 23-27: tradução e notas
items: Sobre la posibilidad de una noción de campo perceptivo en Aristóteles: notas sobre De sensu 7
items: De genitura - ΠΕΡΙ ΓΟΝΗΣ [Hipócrates]
items: Les conséquences tragiques pour Parménide d'une erreur d'Aristote
items: A new collation and text for EN X.6-9 [=Bywater X.6-8]
items: Plato on Parmenides of Elea: the Eleatic PNC case
items: The four elements: living beings or inert matter? Plato’s Timaeus against Empedocles’s On nature
items: Aristóteles, Primeiros Analíticos II, 1-4: tradução e notas
items: Rossella Saetta Cottone, Soleil et Connaissance: Empédocle avant Platon. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2023 [Collection encre marine]
items: Thrasymachus, the Sight-lover
items: How Do the Eight Hypotheses in Plato’s Parmenides Come to Light? Chiasmus as a Method of Division
items: Some remarks against non-epistemic accounts of immediate premises in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
items: Thrasymachus’ government: an analogy with Machiavelli’s Prince

https://revistas.usp.br/filosofiaantiga/en/article/view/201055
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subject: Editorial
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rights: Copyright (c)
date: 2026-05-11
publication date: 2026-05-11

Revisiting the “longer way” and the “shorter way” in Plato’s Republic
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description: At some moments of the Republic, character Socrates refers to two “ways” to reach some important objectives explained in the dialogue, a shorter one and a longer one. The present article explains what these two paths are, by presenting i) the previous context for the “paths” in the text of the Republic; ii) the objectives attributed to the ongoing discussion; iii) how the notion of “paths” emerges in the text; iv) the characterization of both, the shorter and the longer way; v) the explanation why the discussion must follow the shorter one; vi) the assessment of some of the main interpretations of the issue in the scholarship. The paper concludes that Socrates and his interlocutors could not follow the longer way because it is not available for them.
subject: Articles
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subject: Plato
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subject: Republic
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subject: Way
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subject: Longer
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subject: Shorter
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creator: Andre Luiz Braga da Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Andre Luiz Braga da Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-31
publication date: 2025-10-31
starting page: 18
ending page: 39
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i2p18-39

Beyond technē: Thrasymachus, legitimacy, and the appearance of justice: a reply to Menezes
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description: This paper offers a new interpretation of Thrasymachus’ thesis in Republic I (338c–341a). Against readings that reduce his position either to sophistic cynicism or to a purely technical account of rule, I argue that Thrasymachus advances an implicit theory of legitimacy. Through a close reading of Socrates’ Polydamas parody (339a) and the technē exchange (340d–341a), I develop what I call the Principle of Appearances (PA): political power survives only when coercion presents itself as truth. This performative dimension clarifies why Thrasymachus demands the ruler’s infallibility and why law (nomos) appears as the advantage of the stronger. The paper situates this paradox of legitimation within the genealogy of political realism, from Plato’s dramatic text through Machiavelli’s verità effettuale della cosa to Bernard Williams’s Basic Legitimation Demand. The conclusion is that justice, for Thrasymachus, is not simply kratos or technē, but the linguistic and symbolic form by which domination sustains itself as acceptable order.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Gábor Szabó
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Gábor Szabó https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-31
publication date: 2025-10-31
starting page: 1
ending page: 17
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i2p1-17

Intelectualismo socrático no tratado aristotélico Magna Moralia: tradução dos excertos e comentários
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description: This article consists of a compilation of passages from the Aristotelian treatise, known by the Latin title Magna Moralia, in which the moral theses attributed to Socrates, generically recognized as “Socratic intellectualism,” are critically examined. The Portuguese translations of the excerpts are accompanied, on the one hand, by explanatory notes of a philosophical nature and, on the other, by philological and grammatical comments. In the introduction, we present a brief history of the treatise and an overview of Aristotle's contribution to the debate on the Socratic problem.
subject: Translations
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creator: Daniel Rossi Nunes Lopes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Daniel Rossi Nunes Lopes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-31
publication date: 2025-10-31
starting page: 147
ending page: 188
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i2p147-188

Il Fedro o del νοῦς. Sulla possibilità di un’emotività intellettiva.
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description: This contribution focuses on Plato's Phaedrus palinode; in particular, it aims to draw attention to the fact that the life of the intellect (the charioteer) manifests itself physiologically through the body of the lover. The intellect of the palinode is not a mere faculty, but an agent capable of feeling dismay and desire, emotional states that are mirrored in the physiology of the body. Insisting on this physiological aspect of the intellect's workings can be very useful because it helps to dismantle the widespread representation of Platonic thought known as austere dualism.
subject: Articles
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subject: Plato
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subject: Fedro
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subject: intellect
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subject: emotions
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subject: nous
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creator: Stefano Pone
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Stefano Pone https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-31
publication date: 2025-10-31
starting page: 76
ending page: 105
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i2p76-105

Reincarnation in the Speech of Aristophanes
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description: This article examines Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Symposium, focusing on its myth of humanity’s division and the search for wholeness. Traditional interpretations view the myth either as a folktale (Dover) or as a tragic denial of true fulfillment (Hyland). However, these readings leave unresolved the puzzle of why present-day humans, not literally split by Zeus, nonetheless search for lost halves. The paper proposes that the speech presupposes reincarnation: we are not mere descendants of the primordial spherical beings but reincarnations of them, carrying forward both their division and their longing for completion. Two textual features support this reading. First, Aristophanes’ cosmology—describing proto-humans as spherical, like heavenly bodies—evokes Pythagorean doctrines of a spherical, rotating earth, often linked in Plato’s myths to reincarnation and the cycle of rebirth. Second, the comparison of proto-human reproduction to cicadas suggests symbolic resonance with metamorphosis and rebirth, as cicadas were culturally associated with immortality and reincarnation. By situating Aristophanes’ speech within the broader context of Platonic cosmological myths, the article argues that reincarnation resolves the apparent contradiction of the myth and provides an implicit eschatology: through love, one may rediscover one’s other half and potentially escape the cycle of rebirth.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Symposium
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subject: reincarnation
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creator: Ryan Christensen
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ryan Christensen https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-31
publication date: 2025-10-31
starting page: 60
ending page: 75
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i2p60-75

Teleology in the coordination of the whole in Metaphysics Λ10
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description: This article aims to offer an alternative reading of the opening passage of Metaphysics Λ10. The passage in question, corresponding to 1075a11-25, is often interpreted as an Aristotelian attempt to present the Prime Mover as a unifying cause of the universe, while also paving the way for a cosmic teleology in Aristotle’s philosophy. The reading proposed here suggests that, in this passage, Aristotle is not necessarily arguing for the relation of all things with the Prime Mover, so that the imitative aspect would not play a fundamental role in the argument as well. The article also examines the role of Λ10 within the context of Aristotelian teleology, offering brief considerations on how this teleology tends to be interpreted, and discusses the relationship between teleology and the imitation of the Prime Mover.
subject: Articles
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subject: Aristotle
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subject: Teleology
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subject: Book Lambda
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creator: Renan Eduardo Stoll
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Renan Eduardo Stoll https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-31
publication date: 2025-10-31
starting page: 122
ending page: 146
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i2p122-146

Plato’s Conception of Pleonexia as Structural Excess
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description: This paper reconstructs Plato’s conception of pleonexia as a flaw. Drawing on material from the Laws, Timaeus, Symposium, and Republic, it argues that Plato understands pleonexia as an excess that disrupts proportion and undermines natural order—whether in bodies, seasonal cycles, cities, or souls. The paper concludes that Plato’s account offers conceptual resources for countering the pleonectic worldview defended by figures like Callicles in the Gorgias.
subject: Articles
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creator: Christen Zimecki
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Christen Zimecki https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-31
publication date: 2025-10-31
starting page: 106
ending page: 121
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i2p106-121

Εργου καιρον: notas de Marx sobre a divisão do trabalho em Platão
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description: In Karl Marx's Capital we can read a long note dealing with a passage from Plato's Republic, more specifically from Book II in the part where Socrates is founding the city in the speech (369c-370d). Marx uses the passage to exemplify the ancients' point of view regarding the social division of labor. Marx's aim is to establish a critique of the capitalist mode of production and the division of labor among moderns as it presents itself in the manufacturing system of bourgeois society. According to Marx, there is an appropriation of capital over social labor time, transforming full-time workers into partial and unilateral workers from the decomposition of a craft activity into its various fragmented operations. In this way, the worker loses his autonomy and his ability to know the totality of the craft to become a mere cog in a total mechanism that belongs to him. Our aim is to analyze the passage in which Marx speaks of the division of labor in Plato's Republic and the opportune time to do the work so as not to lose it [ἔργου καιρὸν διόλλυται]. For Plato, the division of labor is necessary for the social development of human beings and the role of each person within the city. From this perspective, we intend to investigate the passage within Plato's work itself and relate it to Marx's interpretation. Finally, we will briefly explain the importance of omnilateral education in the field of professional and technological education and how Plato and Marx are essential thinkers for the improvement of future research on the subject.
subject: Articles
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subject: República de Platão
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subject: Capital de Marx
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subject: Práxis
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subject: Trabalho
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subject: Educação Omnilateral
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subject: Economia Política
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creator: Luiz Maurício Bentim da Rocha Menezes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Luiz Maurício Bentim da Rocha Menezes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-31
publication date: 2025-10-31
starting page: 40
ending page: 59
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i2p40-59

Laura Liliana Gómez Espíndola, Aristóteles. Necesidad y responsabilidad moral, Cali: Universidad del Valle – Programa Editorial, 2024, p. 334.
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description: El libro de Laura Liliana Gómez Espíndola sobre los conceptos de “necesidad” y de “responsabilidad moral” en Aristóteles constituye el resultado coherente de un recorrido de investigación que tiene como antecedente notable la publicación en el año 2016 de un libro sobre los mismos ejes problemáticos, pero en el pensamiento del estoicismo.[1] La vuelta a Aristóteles, según dice la autora en la Introducción del libro, obedece a la voluntad de establecer hasta qué punto la filosofía práctica del estagirita permite superar los riesgos del determinismo extremo; esto es, los riesgos de que, en un mundo en el que los fenómenos naturales parecen estar gobernados por una causalidad necesaria, se desdibujen los márgenes de la voluntad humana con relación a la posibilidad de tener el control de sus propias acciones.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Aristóteles
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subject: Responsabilidad moral
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subject: Laura Gómez Espíndola
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creator: Luciano Ciruzzi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Luciano Ciruzzi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 188
ending page: 196
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i1p188-196

L’argomento del terzo uomo (TMA) e Platone
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description: After a historiographical reconstruction of the Third Man Argument (TMA), anciently interpreted against the Platonic doctrine of ideas, the third and fifth aporia of Parmenides as well as the aporia of Republic and that of Timaeus are analyzed, only in the modern era interpreted as four other forms of the TMA. My intent is to show on the contrary that Plato has never really taken into account the TMA due to its dialectical inconsistency and constructs his aporias in order to clarify mainly and at different levels the reason why the idea/form is one and can only be but one, unlike the non-eidetic multiplicity.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Plato
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subject: Parmenides
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subject: TMA
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subject: idea
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subject: Forms
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creator: Vittorio Ricci
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vittorio Ricci https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 98
ending page: 143
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i1p98-143

Hylomorphism from Aristotle to Descartes – a review of a recent book on the history of hylomorphism
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Marco Zingano
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marco Zingano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 197
ending page: 210
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i1p197-210

Has εὐβίοτος in Aristotle’s Historia Animalium ix Been Mistranslated?
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description: The term, εὐβίοτος, “living well” and its cognates appear in Aristotle’s observations of bird life in Historia Animalium ix. This research note compares the way Aristotle’s term was rendered in Greek, Latin, and Arabic manuscripts, and in modern and contemporary translations in English, French, and German, to argue that it has been rendered infelicitously, beginning with the 15th-century humanist translators, George of Trebizond and Theodore Gaza. The liberties taken in over-interpreting Aristotle’s term might have obscured what he was trying to communicate about bird capabilities.
subject: Textual Notes
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subject: Aristole
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subject: eubiotos
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subject: Historia Animalium
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creator: Chelsea C. Harry
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Chelsea Harry https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 171
ending page: 177
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i1p171-177

Experiencing failure: the twofold cause of error in Stoicism
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description: According to Stoicism, nature has endowed us with reason, enabling us, through the function of kataleptic impressions, to perceive the world truly. Yet most people deviate from this ideal. To explain this, the Stoics identify two causes: (a) the persuasiveness of impressions and (b) the teachings of our associates. While both Galen and Posidonius challenge the validity of these causes, and many scholars highlight their complexity, this paper aims to provide a deeper Stoic foundation for them. As I will propose, addressing these two causes requires a comprehensive analysis of several aspects of Stoic ontology, epistemology, and causation. This paper argues that the persuasiveness of impressions is rooted, on the one hand, in the intricate causal structure of the Stoic world and the similarities between the causal interactions our soul establishes with virtue and preferable externals, and, on the other hand, in the resemblance between the affections experienced in both passions and virtuous emotions—specifically, the experience of expansion and contraction of the soul when we gain or are deprived of something. Furthermore, I will contend that the influence of associates affects our evaluative judgments due to the causal power of beliefs, which is continually reinforced by the persuasiveness of relevant impressions. To support these conclusions, a detailed examination of both the Stoic theory of causation and the status of sayables in Stoic ontology is essential.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Stoicism
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subject: epistemology
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subject: ontology
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creator: Panagiotis Poulakidas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Panagiotis Poulakidas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 144
ending page: 170
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i1p144-170

Aristotle, Metaph. Γ4 1008b2-1009a5 Revisited: πάντες ὑπολαμβάνουσιν ἔχειν ἁπλῶς (Appendix with new text, translation and commentary)
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description: In this paper I offer a new reading of the final arguments of Metaphysics Γ4, from a cognitive approach. Against a number of different positions, I argue that the passage 1008b2-1009a5 provides arguments that are not contained in the preceding proofs of the chapter. Furthermore, I try to show that these arguments are not dislocated but that, under this approach, they are revealed to be articulated under the same subject relative to mental states and contents, and also by the same objective: to preserve the cognitive thesis with which Aristotle characterizes the principle of non-contradiction in Γ3 1005b11-14. Given the discrepancies between the editors of the text and the difficulties arising from textual paradosis, I have once again revised manuscripts J, E and Ab. The results of that examination include lectiones never before noted, one of which (from ms. J) improves, in my judgment, the difficult argument presented between lines 1008b3-10. The final part of this study offers the results of my examination in the form of a new text of the entire passage, with translation and commentary
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Aristotle
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subject: non-contradiction principle
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subject: arrive at truth
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subject: ákratos argument
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creator: Eduardo H. Mombello
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Eduardo Mombello https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 1
ending page: 70
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i1p1-70

The First Approach to Essence in Aristotle's Research on Substance (Metaphysics VII 4 - Portuguese Translation with Notes)
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description: The concept of essence plays a crucial role in the research on substance that takes place in Book VII of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Chapter VII 4 contains the first approach to it in Book VII. In this difficult text, essence is examined from an abstract point of view that sets the basis for the remaining discussions of the subject throughout Book VII. My purpose here is to place Metaphysics VII 4 under a new light by means of a new Portuguese translation with explanatory notes. The translation avoids such interventions in the transmitted text as have been frequently made by contemporary editors. It also aims at keeping as much as possible the reading of manuscripts E and J. The comments are intended to justify the choices made as to the edition and the translation of the text and also to clarify the content of the chapter.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Essence
  topic: keywords
subject: Substance
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subject: Metaphysics
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subject: Aristotle
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creator: Raphael Zillig
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Raphael Zillig https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 71
ending page: 97
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i1p71-97

Três traduções recentes de Aristóteles para a língua nacional: uma da Metafísica e duas da Ética Nicomaqueia
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: metafisica
  topic: keywords
subject: Aristóteles
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subject: substância
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subject: ética
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creator: Marco Zingano
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Marco Zingano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 145
ending page: 166
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i2p145-166

Aristóteles, Primeiros Analíticos II, 23-27: tradução e notas
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description: This is an annotated translation of the last five chapters of the second book of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics. My aim is to provide Portuguese-speaking readers with a clear text, supplemented by materials that elucidate and contextualize Aristotle’s work, addressing a notable gap in the Lusophone bibliographical universe. To achieve this, I have based my translation on Ross’s edition of the Aristotelian text and compared it with various existing translations and commentaries.
subject: Translations
  topic: section
subject: Aristóteles
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subject: Primeiros Analíticos II
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subject: indução
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subject: dedução
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creator: Tomás Troster
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Tomás Troster https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 113
ending page: 144
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i2p113-144

Sobre la posibilidad de una noción de campo perceptivo en Aristóteles: notas sobre De sensu 7
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description: Argumento a favor de una interpretación alternativa de la analogía entre sustrato sensible y facultad sensitiva ubicada en De sensu 7, 449a5-20, en el contexto de una discusión en torno a si es posible percibir simultáneamente dos cosas. Mientras que la lectura estándar propone limitar el alcance de la analogía a un argumento que explica cómo se constituye la captación de objetos sensibles particulares en nuestra experiencia perceptiva, yo sostengo que, además de ello, la analogía puede ser explicativa del surgimiento de algo así como un campo perceptivo i.e. la totalidad compleja, continua y unitaria de la apariencia perceptiva que sirve como correlato a nuestro estado de vigilia. Para ello, el giro interpretativo crucial tiene que ver con el locus de las cualidades sensibles, mientras que la interpretación estándar considera necesario que se trata de cualidades sensibles que inhieren en el mismo sustrato material, en mi lectura el pasaje también puede leerse a la luz de la captación de cualidades sensibles separadas que están en sustratos numéricamente distintos.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Aristóteles
  topic: keywords
subject: percepción
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subject: campo perceptivo
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subject: simultaneidad
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subject: unidad
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creator: Claudio Vera del Canto
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Claudio Vera del Canto https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 61
ending page: 81
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i2p61-81

De genitura - ΠΕΡΙ ΓΟΝΗΣ [Hipócrates]
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description: I offer here a translation into Portuguese of De genitura of the Hippocratic Collection, the first part of De genitura/De natura Pueri, which is the first text the tradition transmitted entirely about the origin of the semen and embryology. The translation is introduced by a brief description of the author and the text and accompanied by footnotes which are intended to clarify the text and the context.
subject: Translations
  topic: section
subject: Hippocratic Collection
  topic: keywords
subject: Sperm
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subject: Humoral theory
  topic: keywords
subject: Sex determination
  topic: keywords
creator: Silvio Marino
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Silvio Marino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 82
ending page: 112
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i2p82-112

Les conséquences tragiques pour Parménide d'une erreur d'Aristote
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description: The difficulty of grasping the thought of Parmenides led interpreters already in antiquity to approach his philosophy according to later schemes of thought. This was the case of Aristotle, whose interpretation was inherited by his disciple Theophrastus and by his commentators, especially Simplicius. Simplicius, a Neoplatonist and Aristotelian at the same time, proposed an interpretation, strongly dualistic (dominated by the sensible/intelligible dichotomy), which is not found in the recovered quotations. The origin of this interpretation is an "error" of Aristotle, inherited by Simplicius, who attributed to Parmenides himself the paternity of the "opinions of mortals". In 1795 G.G.Fülleborn, inspired by Simplicius, proposed a division of the Poem into two "parts", unanimously accepted today, and which must be urgently revised and rejected.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Parménide, Aristote, Simplicius, doxai
  topic: keywords
creator: Nestor-Luis Cordero
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Nestor-Luis Cordero https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-05-31
publication date: 2024-05-31
starting page: 1
ending page: 24
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i1p1-24

A new collation and text for EN X.6-9 [=Bywater X.6-8]
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description: In this paper, I attempt to explore a recent hypothesis about what the main mss. are for establishing the text of Aristotle’s Ethica Nicomachea (henceforth EN). This hypothesis was recently advanced on the basis of evidence coming from EN I-II. In exploring this hypothesis, I confine myself to the text of EN X.6-9 [=Bywater X.6-8], and, as a result, I propose a new text for EN X.6-9 [=Bywater X.6-8] based on a fresh collation of nine mss—four of which were not taken into account in previous editions of the EN—and based on readings that can be gathered from the Arabic translation of the EN that was preserved in the Fez ms. The text proposed in this paper is accompanied by textual notes that justify my decisions regarding some difficult passages.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Aristotle
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethica Nichomachea
  topic: keywords
subject: eudaimonia
  topic: keywords
subject: Textual criticism
  topic: keywords
creator: Victor Gonçalves de Sousa
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Victor Gonçalves de Sousa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-05-31
publication date: 2024-05-31
starting page: 67
ending page: 102
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i1p67-102

Plato on Parmenides of Elea: the Eleatic PNC case
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description: According to several scholars, the first explicit formulations of the Principle of Non-Contradiction (PNC) can be found in Plato's works, e. g. in the Republic and the Sophist. The paper defends that, in these two dialogues, the context for that is the discussion of possible consequences of Parmenides' Poem, in which Plato seems to have seen a proto-version of the PNC: it is not possible what is not to be (DK28 B7). In that proto-version, the PNC would present itself as an exhaustive disjunction: either it is, and cannot not be, or it is not, and cannot be; and tertium non datur (DK28 B2, B8, passim). The paper shows the problematic corollaries thereof pointed to by Plato in the Republic and the Sophist, as well as it analyses the solutions that he had presented in each dialogue for those problems, namely, his own versions of the PNC.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Plato
  topic: keywords
subject: Parmenides
  topic: keywords
subject: Contradiction
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subject: Republic
  topic: keywords
subject: Sophist
  topic: keywords
creator: André Luiz Braga da Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Andre Luiz Braga da Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 14
ending page: 31
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i2p14-31

The four elements: living beings or inert matter? Plato’s Timaeus against Empedocles’s On nature
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description: Abstract. In this paper, I argue that Empedocles’s peculiar expression according to which the roots – living entities, each endowed with thought and desires – “are themselves” forces the reader to think of them not solely as the principles of generation, never born and destined never to perish, but also as the true being, in the sense that the many particular entities are only an aspect, an image, a form assumed by the roots. I then argue that in his Timaeus Plato implicitly opposes Empedocles by describing the four elements as generated, sensible, and corporeal: therefore, not as entities with life and thought or even the true being, but as contingent forms or images of necessity. In this way, Plato prevents Empedocles’s theories from developing into a tradition: no longer conceived as intelligent and living beings, in ancient physics the four elements become inert matter.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Empedocles;
  topic: keywords
subject: Plato
  topic: keywords
subject: Timaeus
  topic: keywords
subject: ancient physics
  topic: keywords
subject: elements
  topic: keywords
creator: Federico Casella
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Federico Casella https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 32
ending page: 60
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i2p32-60

Aristóteles, Primeiros Analíticos II, 1-4: tradução e notas
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description: This is an annotated translation of the first four chapters of the second book of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics. I aim to offer Portuguese-speaking readers a clear text with complementary materials to elucidate and contextualize Aristotle’s work, fulfilling a significant gap in the Lusophone bibliographical universe. To do this, I have taken Ross’s edition of the Aristotelian text as a basis – in which I have made some small changes – and compared my work with a series of existing translations and commentaries on the text.
subject: Translations
  topic: section
subject: Aristóteles
  topic: keywords
subject: Primeiros Analíticos II
  topic: keywords
subject: silogismo
  topic: keywords
creator: Tomás Troster
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Tomás Troster https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-05-31
publication date: 2024-05-31
starting page: 149
ending page: 192
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i1p149-192

Rossella Saetta Cottone, Soleil et Connaissance: Empédocle avant Platon. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2023 [Collection encre marine]
type: item
description: Book review Rossella Saetta Cottone, Soleil et Connaissance: Empédocle avant Platon. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2023 [Collection encre marine]
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Nelson de Aguiar Menezes Neto
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Nelson de Aguiar Menezes Neto https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 178
ending page: 187
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v19i1p178-187

Thrasymachus, the Sight-lover
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description: The aim of this paper is to explain why Thrasymachus, upon first appearing in Republic I, prohibits Socrates from defining justice as what is good. I argue that Thrasymachus views such definitions as equivocal, since he conceives of the good as relative: what is good must be good for someone. This relative conception of the good makes Thrasymachus similar to the sight-lovers, who believe in good things, which are relatively good, but deny the existence of the good itself, which is absolutely good. Understanding Thrasymachus as a sight-lover permits an illuminating reframing of his outlook and his significance for the larger project of the Republic.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: plato
  topic: keywords
subject: Republic
  topic: keywords
subject: Trasymachus
  topic: keywords
subject: Justice
  topic: keywords
creator: Clifford Roberts
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Clifford Roberts https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-05-31
publication date: 2024-05-31
starting page: 25
ending page: 36
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i1p25-36

How Do the Eight Hypotheses in Plato’s Parmenides Come to Light? Chiasmus as a Method of Division
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description: In this paper, I aim to explore the structure of the exercise in the second part of the Parmenides. In analyzing the transitional section, I claim that in addition to diairesis, there is another method of division, namely, cross-division, which Porphyry terms chiasmus. On this basis, I explain how Plato uses chiasmus to divide the exercise into eight hypotheses, in which the subjects of the paired hypotheses (I–VI, II–V, III–VII, and IV–VIII) are the same and those of the nonpaired hypotheses differ. In closing, I reconstruct the universal scheme of the exercise on the basis of Plato’s use of chiasmus.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Plato
  topic: keywords
subject: Porphyry
  topic: keywords
subject: Chiasmus
  topic: keywords
subject: pros to hen
  topic: keywords
subject: pros ta alla
  topic: keywords
creator: Xin Liu
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Xin Liu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-05-31
publication date: 2024-05-31
starting page: 37
ending page: 66
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i1p37-66

Some remarks against non-epistemic accounts of immediate premises in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
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description: Most interpretations of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics believe that the term ‘ameson’ is used to describe the principles or foundations of a given system of justification or explanation as epistemically prior to or more fundamental than the other propositions in the system. Epistemic readings (as I shall call them) arguably constitute a majority in the secondary literature. This predominant view has been challenged by Robin Smith (1986) and Michael Ferejohn (1994; 2013), who propose interpretations that should be classified as non-epistemic according to the definition above. My aim in this article is purely negative. I intend to show that these non-epistemic interpretations are liable to serious objections and are in conflict with some important features of Aristotle’s theory of demonstration.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Aristotle
  topic: keywords
subject: demonstration
  topic: keywords
subject: syllogism
  topic: keywords
subject: immediacy
  topic: keywords
subject: priority
  topic: keywords
creator: Breno Zuppolini
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Breno Zuppolini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2023-10-31
publication date: 2023-10-31
starting page: 29
ending page: 43
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v17i2p29-43

Thrasymachus’ government: an analogy with Machiavelli’s Prince
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description: In Book I of Plato's Republic, Thrasymachus' proposal opens an important field of analysis within political philosophy, as it is through his discourse that justice becomes associated with the existing government policy in cities, given that, regardless of the political constitution, force always belongs to the governments and it is these who make the laws that it is fair for the governed to obey. This work aims, first, to analyze Thrasymachus' proposal for the whole of political philosophy and, second, to relate this proposal with Machiavelli's The Prince.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Plato's Republic
  topic: keywords
subject: Thrasymachus
  topic: keywords
subject: Government
  topic: keywords
subject: Machiavelli's Prince
  topic: keywords
subject: Political Philosophy
  topic: keywords
creator: Luiz Maurício Bentim da Rocha Menezes
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Luiz Maurício Bentim da Rocha Menezes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 1
ending page: 13
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v18i2p1-13