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Antiphasis as Homonym in Aristotle

Gallagher R.L. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXON, ENGLAND, 2014)

Antiphasis is a case of core-dependent homonymy, and has three significations in Aristotle's philosophy: (1) antiphasis as an opposition between propositions (a propositional signification); (2) antiphasis as the opposition ...
Arabic literary-scientific journals: Precedence for globalization and the creation of modernity

Sheehi S. (, 2005)

[No abstract available]
Aristotle on Eidei Diapherontoi

Gallagher R.L. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2011)

Aristotle holds that there must be multiple forms of human being and those forms constitute a genos, this paper argues. Aristotle advances his claim by arguing that the strength of a polis rests on the existence of a ...
Aristotle's Peirastic treatment of the Republic

Gallagher R. (BERLINGENTHINER STRASSE 13, D-10785 BERLIN, GERMANY, 2011)

Aristotle's discussion of Plato's Republic in Politics II is argued to be, at least in part, peirastic, on the grounds that nine premises that Aristotle uses in his arguments on unity and property in the city of the guardians ...
Art and political dissent in postwar Lebanon: Walid Sadek's fi annani akbar min bikasu [bigger than picasso]

Mejcher-Atassi S. (NEW YORK32 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY 10013-2473 USA, 2013)

Taking Walid Sadek's fi annani akbar min bikasu [bigger than picasso] as its starting point, this article examines relations of art and politics in post-civil war Lebanon. A tiny and inexpensive paperback related to Picasso ...
Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics

Fugate, Courtney D.; Hymers, John (Oxford University Press, )

This volume explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant. For over a century, scholars have recognized the significance of Baumgarten's Metaphysics, both ...
By way of an overture: Classical optics and renaissance pictorial arts

El-Bizri N. (Ashgate Publishing Ltd.;, 2014)

[No abstract available]
Coverture in Lebanon

Shehadeh L.R. (, 2004)

The principle of coverture in Lebanon is defined and examined through a study of the Christian personal status codes. While these do not necessarily reflect the social status of women, they remain highly discriminatory ...
Eberhard’s “Preparation for Natural Theology”: With Kant’s Reflections, Natural Theology Lectures and Related Materials

Fugate, Courtney D.; Hymers , John (Bloomsbury Academic, )
Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: The Ikhwan al-Safa' and Their Rasa'il: An Introduction

El-Bizri, Nader (Oxford University Press, )
Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics

El-Bizri, Nader; Rashed, Roshdi (Routledge, )

In this unique insight into the history and philosophy of mathematics and science in the mediaeval Arab world, the eminent scholar Roshdi Rashed illuminates the various historical, textual and epistemic threads that ...
Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria

Smith, Richard Saumarez; Mundy, Martha (I.B. Tauris, )
Hegel and the Metaphysical Frontiers of Political Theory

Goodfield, Eric Lee (Routledge, )

This book takes the reception of Hegel’s political thought as a lens through which contemporary methodological and ideological prerogatives are exposed. It traces the nineteenth century origins of the positivist revolt ...
Ibn al-Haytham and analytical mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics

El-Bizri, Nader; Rashed, Roshdi (Routledge, )

This volume provides an unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and the exact sciences in the mediaeval Arab world. The second of five comprehensive volumes, this book offers a detailed exploration ...
In defense of moral economy: Marx's criticism of aristotle's theory of value

Gallagher R.L. (, 2014)

Marx's criticism of Aristotle's theory of value is refuted. Aristotle's theory is explained. Marx is shown is be even more indebted to Aristotle than previously thought, but his argument for a strict commensurability of ...
In search of identity: Hijab recollections from west Beirut

Fuleihan N.S. (University of Texas Press;, 2010)

In autumn 1983, a young woman at the American University of Beirut entered the cafeteria wearing a hijab.1 Heads turned, and whispers were audible throughout the room. The hijab itself was not unusual in West Beirut, where ...
Incommensurability in Aristotle's Theory of reciprocal justice

Gallagher R.L. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2012)

In just proportional exchange, under Aristotle's theory of reciprocal justice, superior sharers in a community materially assist the weaker, and receive honour as a reward. Aristotle's economic thought is represented with ...
Introduction

Bartram A.; El-Bizri N.; Gittens D. (Ashgate Publishing Ltd.;, 2014)

[No abstract available]
Lacan Contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics

Bou Ali, Nadia; Goel, Rohit (Bloomsbury, )

Lacan Contra Foucault seeks to ground the divergences and confluences between these two key thinkers in relation to contemporary philosophy and criticism. The book specifically addresses the topics of sexuality, the theory ...
Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant's Elucidations, Selected Notes, and Related Materials

Fugate, Courtney D.; Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb; Kant, Immanuel (Bloomsbury Academic, )

Alexander Baumgarten (1714–1762), an influential German philosopher preceding Immanuel Kant, is remembered mainly as a founder of modern aesthetics. His manual on metaphysics was one of the chief textbooks of philosophical ...

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