Scholars often broach Plato’s dialectic from an external perspective. Some believe that while Plato is a superb writer, poet, and creator of inspiring myths that raise intriguing questions, he is definitely not a good logician, especially compared to Aristotle’s breakthrough in logic. Others are more charitable to Plato but still study Plato’s dialectic as if it were an embryonic form of Aristotle’s logic or an important stepping-stone ...
This project studies the relation between two conspicuous characteristics of contemporary society: the cult of performance and depression. At first the contemporary rise of both these phenomena appears paradoxical. The cult of performance aims at unlocking individual potential, initiative, and creativity to meet the ever-changing demands of contemporary society and economy. Depression, on the other hand, is characterised by an experienced ...
The aim of this Scientific Research Network is threefold: (a) to gather all the expertise available in the Low Countries for the study of the Platonic tradition in Antiquity in a dynamic research community; (b) to facilitate the exchange of skills and ideas among the researchers of our partner institutions through the organisation of scientific events and advanced training opportunities; and (c) to promote Flanders and the surrounding regions ...
During the 16th and 17th century, many Jesuit missionaries moved from Europe to China to evangelize the Gospel, one of those was Nicola Longobardo, Long Huamin 龍華民 (1565- 1655). Enjoying the appreciation of Matteo Ricci, Longobardo became his successor in 1610 as Superior of the Chinese mission. He was a prominent Jesuit personality, but historiography has put him in a direct and arbitrary comparison with Ricci and, as a result, his ...
The fame of Yangism was, in ancient times, as great as Confucianism and Mohism. As a matter of fact, Mohism and Confucianism were considered as equals during the Warring States period and the Han Dynasty, while Yangism being the third greatest school among the Hundred Schools of Thought. It is not until later times that Yangism and Mohism were deemed less than Confucianism. And after the Book Burning and Burial of the Scholars in the Qin ...
The aim of this investigation is to understand philosophical perspective of YangZhu. In this inquiry, I focus primarily on the concept of “good” itself and the condition for the “good life”—with particular attention given to a “good community” as espoused in the philosophy of Yang Zhu. Whereas the concept of good regarding individual life is basically related with natural preference for pleasure and happiness, the concept of good regarding ...
Schizophrenia research faces the challenge of keeping up with itself, organizing new findings as they arise and bringing to them a scientifically meaningful order. From this perspective, the issues of validity, reliability and repeatability in schizophrenia research together warrant not a merely static conceptual framework, but one that is produced by responsive, evolving relations between the seemingly ever-new findings and lines of ...
The premise of this project is the observation that classical accounts of citizenship – focusing on citizenship as a status or habitus – fail to take note of political actors that appropriate the language of citizenship outside of the dominant institutions of citizenship. This is why this project will take cue from Étienne Balibar and Engin Isin: according to these philosophers, we should stop thinking of citizenship as a status that is (or ...