John Farina Abstract Religion plays a vital role in civil society today that finds warrants in Plato and in the political theories of Guissepe Mazzini. The process by which religion enters a culture is not a simple one in which the sacred and the secular are opposed but a dynamic process, suggested by the … [Read more…]
DAN NICA Abstract This paper is a critical investigation about the historical origins of two contemporary approaches in ethics: moral particularism and moral generalism. Moral particularism states that there are no defensible moral principles and that moral thought doesn’t consist in the application of moral principles to cases, but in understanding the morally relevant features … [Read more…]
CRISTIAN IFTODE Abstract The goal of this paper is to emphasize the key methodological role played by the notion of analogy in Plato’s philosophy. My main thesis is that Plato doesn’t operate with two relatively distinct concepts of analogy, one being the mathematical analogy and the other a “participative” and ontological concept of analogy, but … [Read more…]