"'On Contradiction' is Mao Zedong's seminal text on dialectical materialism. Perhaps his most well-known work, it's been read and studied by millions all over the world and is required reading for all those who seek to objectively analyze the world and struggle to solve the cont…
by Berto, Francesco, Bottai, Lorenzo
fromBussole. Filosofia e scienza
Kinds of knowing and kinds of being -- The unity of the soul in Republic -- The insubstantiality of sensible things -- The soul as good in itself in Republic -- Beyond the hypothesis.
What sorts of things qualify as first principles of reasoning and what kind of justification for them can be offered? We think of principles like that of non-contradiction as first principles of reasoning. Laurence Bloom argues that Plato's Republic, the first text that affords …
