Socrates,taken as the figure in Plato’s so-called early dialogues,famously professes to be ignorant,but the nature and the scope of his ignorance have long been intensely debated and still remain obscure.In this pape...
Both Confucius and Socrates are outstanding philosophers in the history of human civilization.Their thoughts are thesource of Eastern and Western culture and educational thoughts respectively.For example,the"humanity"...
M?δεια(Medea), the tragedy written by Euripides (431 BC), refers to the story of a woman who seduced by her love for Jason, left her hometown of Colchis, and flew with him to Greece. Jason then betrayed Medea and ...
the research findings of Hunan Province Philosophy and Social Science Fund’s Foreign Language Joint Project“The Study of the Phenomenon of Unreliable Translation Based on Cultural Turn”(No.16WLH02)
Chinese culture “going global” is an inevitable requirement for China’s economic and social development.As an important part of Chinese traditional culture,the dissemination of Confucian thought is just the spread ...
Confucius emphasises the importance of humaneness (ren 仁)and rites (li 禮).Socrates, on the other hand, is often interpreted as a person who places far more importance on rational thinking, even to the exclusion of n...
Both Socrates and Mozi are said in Plato's dialogues and in the Mozi respectively to have claimed that they are living a sort of life following superhuman "intention": Socrates according to the Delphic oracle, and...
Having for its object the relation between music and philosophy, the present article aims, on the one hand, to seek out the philosophical resources contained in foundational texts in terms of musical knowledge, and, o...
The concept of "wisdom" which Plato elaborates in his Apology is analyzed here. In doing so, we describe how Socrates, once declared by the Oracle to be "the wisest man," starts to analyze what wisdom actually mea...
Aristotle's philosophical legacy should be accepted as one of the historical influences that shaped Stoic moral and psychological thought, even if this influence needs to be demonstrated in each individual case rathe...