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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy
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ISSN 2653-9373 · The NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory · 255 artikel di indeks
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Philosophy of Religion and the Augustinian Concept of Illumination: A Preliminary Study
The purpose of this article is to clarify epistemology in Augustine’s philosophical perspective. The hypothesis proposed is whether Augustine laid the foundation for Western theology and philosophy. Did his epistemology aim to demonstrate the existence of God? To address this question and…
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Mother-Earth, Virgin, Spouse: Appropriation of Gender in ‘Philosophical Nationalism’
This article aims to reconstruct the topics presented in two unpublished lectures from the seminar Nationalité et Nationalisme Philosophique course: Mythos, Tropos, Logos, given by Jacques Derrida in the second semester of 1985. In this part of the course, Derrida finds similarities between the…
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The Qurʾānic Anthropology of Gender in Conversation with Aristotle’s Biological Essentialism
This paper situates the issue of gender ontology within the context of the larger intellectual exchange between Islamic Qurʾānic anthropology and Aristotelian biological essentialism; a discourse rooted in ancient philosophical traditions and convincing throughout the medieval period. It explores…
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Sex not at First Sight: Eriugena’s Views on Sexual Differentiation
Does the division of human nature into male and female play any role in Eriugena’s fourfold metaphysical division of reality? This is the main question that I will be addressing in this paper, drawing on Eriugena’s magnum opus, the Periphyseon. Along the way, I will be making comparisons with two…
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Gender and Its Transcendence in Origen of Alexandria: A Study in Origen's Gender Anthropology
This article examines Origen of Alexandria’s theological anthropology through the lens of gender. It argues that, for Origen, gender is not an essential attribute of the human being but a temporary, postlapsarian condition. Drawing from his allegorical exegesis, especially of Genesis, the study…
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A Brief History of Sexuality: Periodisation of the Origins of Sexual Taboos and Norms in Eastern and Western Cultures
This paper examines the historical periodisation of sexuality and the development of sexual taboos in Eastern and Western cultures. Through an analysis of archaeological, mythological, religious, and anthropological sources, it demonstrates that sexuality is a culturally constructed, rather than a…
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The Moral Elevation of Women through the Experience of Pain in the Work of Saint Augustine
This paper examines the role of physical and mental pain in the moral elevation of women in Saint Augustine's thought. Focusing on female martyrs such as Perpetua and Felicity, the study explores how pain is connected to truth, testimony, and virtue within a Christian theological framework…
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Empress Irene as Basileus: Gender, Phylon, and the Construction of Female Authority in Byzantium
The study of women’s roles within Byzantine political and intellectual life has in recent years attracted significant scholarly interest because it highlights the multiple dimensions of gender (phylon) across social, theological, and anthropological contexts. Among the few women who rose to the…
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The Vitruvian (Wo)man: Gendered Representations in Roman Architectural Thought
This article explores the intersection of Roman architecture with ancient philosophical conceptions of gender and human nature. In Roman intellectual culture, architectural order was frequently articulated through anthropomorphic analogies that elevated the male body as a universal measure of…
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From the Androgyne to the Deified Human: Plato’s Erotic Anthropology and its Patristic Transformations
This paper traces the conceptual lineage from Plato’s erotic anthropology to the Christian doctrine of theosis, arguing that the Platonic quest for divine likeness (homoíōsis theōi) reconfigures sexual difference and human nature within a metaphysical framework of unity and desire. Against the…
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The Disembodied Self: Person and Personhood in Plato's Eschatological Myths of the Early and the Middle Dialogues
In this article, I study the concept of person and self in Plato's eschatological myths of the early and middle dialogues. Plato's interest in the postmortem fate of the person or self is expressed through various myths of immortality of the soul. However, the majority of the scholars pass over the…
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Giving Voice to Female Souls: Women and Congregational Song from Plato to Maximus Confessor
The article expands on my recent research on the Platonic milieu of Origen’s perception of the soul as feminine in his Comments on the Song of Songs by tracing the influence of this concept on Maximus Confessor and his Mystagogia. Origen reads the Song as an allegory about the experiences of the…
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Anthropology and Gender: Ancient and Medieval Philosophical Perspectives in Context - An Introduction
This special issue examines conceptions of sex and gender in Late Antiquity and medieval Christianity, with particular attention to the need to move beyond biological essentialism. In Greek texts of this period, the term «φύλον» has a broad semantic range that may include both sex and gender in…
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Allegory and the Economy of the Same: Origen’s Gendered Anthropology Under an Irigarayan Deconstruction
Often celebrated for transforming “male” and “female” into spiritual pedagogy, Origen’s allegorical exegesis is also notorious for sexing the inner life: “male” becomes the sign of spirit and rational mastery, while “female” becomes the sign of soul, flesh, sensibility, and affect. Modern readers…
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Objective Foundations of Ethics and Prospects for Its Development: Information and Communication Approach
The paper considers the objective foundations of ethics as a system providing self-regulation of society. An information and communication approach to the study of the laws of the formation of ethical norms and the interpretation of ethics as a specific transpersonal information structure is…
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Multiple Realizability in the Nature of the Mind and Its Implications for SETI
Responding to Putnam’s computational hypothesis of the mind and the adoption of the Turing machine, it is argued by Churchland and Searle (biological naturalists) that the implementing organic structure is necessary in understanding the nature of mental states. This paper notes that if the term…
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Political Decision-making, Lottocracy, and AI
This article examines an argument for single-issue legislatures (SILs) as an alternative to typical decision-making procedures in representative democracies. It is argued that if this argument was successful, it could be extended to endorse decision-making processes utilizing advanced artificial…
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Locke and Rousseau: From Natural Freedom to The Social Contract
John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are two eminent proponents of the contractual tradition, which asserts that political power is artificial, and its legitimacy stems from individual consent. The fundamental and common feature of all classical social contract theories is that the agreement…
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What Does Self-control Look Like? Considerations about the Neurobiology of Temperance and Fortitude
Our subject is the neurobiological characteristics of virtuous emotional responses and their integration into character. Drawing raw material from the self-reported thoughts and actions of Dr Takashi Nagai, present in Nagasaki at the time of the atomic bomb, our methodology is to conduct a highly…
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Robo-Eroticism: Designing Desire via Creativity in Sexual Robots
In this article, I argue that the integration of creativity into the development of sexual robots is a vital and indispensable factor for their widespread acceptance and functionality. I contend that creativity serves as a linchpin in the realization of fully functional sexual robots. To…