World Congress of Philosophy

Herakleidon museum warmed up for an upcoming exhibition of ancient Chinese technology, by this week unveiling: The “Voyage: Greek shipbuilding and seafaring” in Athens. “Seafaring has formed the Greeks’ character. The spirit of Ulysses still exists in Greeks today. Shipping was and still remains their basic activity. The sea and shipping in particular offer Greeks wealth, vision and a future,” said Eleni Nomikou, the museum’s director. “Greek ships did not carry only products, but also knowledge and culture throughout our history. Thanks to these vessels Greeks travelled the world, enriched their knowledge and used it to create on this land and give birth to the Greek civilization.” A total of 35 handmade wooden models of vessels, complemented with works of art, maps, drawings and video projections narrate the history of Greek seafaring from prehistoric times to the middle of the 20th century. The model of a vessel of the Minoan civilization which flourished from ...

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY 5 SIMONIDOU STREET, 17456 ALIMOS, ATHENS – GREECE ΤEL: +30210 9956955, +30210 7277545, +30210 7277502 29th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PHILOSOPHY THE INLAD OF RHODES-GREECE:7-12 JULY 2017 THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY (IAGP) THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY & CULTURE (ICGPC) THE SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY FOR GREEK PHILOSOPHY AND THE HUMANITIES In cooperation with other academic and cultural institutions and organizations have decided to organize the: 29th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PHILOSOPHY on the topic: GREEK MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (FROM PRE-SOCRATICS TO NEOPLATONISM). The Conference will be held at the town of Rhodes (on the island of Rhodes, a famous Greek island in the South East Aegean) from 7-12 July 2017. The main Conference venue is the Mediterranean Hotel Conference Hall (35-37 Kos Street, 85100 Rhodes, Greece, telephone: +30 2241024661. Email Address...

Any discussion of John Duns Scotus (1266—1308) on our knowledge of God has to be a discussion of Scotus’s thesis that we have concepts univocal to God and creatures. By this, Scotus means that someone’s idea can equally represent both God and other types of things. This is striking even to modern ears and was perhaps more so for Scotus’s contemporaries.  There are religious objections. Some call Scotus an idolater. But beyond this, as Scotus himself pointed out, the metaphysical ramifications of his thesis threaten to “destroy all philosophy.” By this, he means Aristotle’s thought, which did much to set the philosophical terrain of the thirteenth century. For Aristotle, words that refer to things that are different yet somehow related are analogical, words like ‘healthy’ said of both persons and medicine. Medievals adopted Aristotle’s scheme to make sense of the meaning of religious language, which uses words like ‘good’ to talk about God and creatures.  For thinker...