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8°, original softcover. 1st ed. 64 p. As new. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.

8°, original softcover. 1st ed. 159 p. As new. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.

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, Softcover/Paperback. Zustand: Sehr gut. 159 Seiten Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Contents: Preface - I. Paraphrasing Heraclitus: Key Themes - i. Paraphrasing logos, the grand theme - ii. The theme of opposites - iii. Confluence difluence armonia - iv. Paraphrasing "en" - v. paraphrasing Heraclitus cosmology - II. Paraphrasis of Individual Fragments - III. Epilogue - Bibliography - Appendix - The fragments of Heraclitus - The fragments of Parmenides ISBN 9781517054151 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 220.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thus Spoke Parmenides is an extraordinary philosophical dialogue between a human interlocutor and an AI system exploring one of the most influential texts in Western thought: Parmenides' poem On Nature.For more than two thousand years, generations of scholars have interpreted Parmenides through the lenses of Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism, medieval theology, German Idealism, phenomenology, and contemporary philosophy. But what if we attempt to return to the text itself What if we set aside centuries of commentary and ask a simpler question: What does the poem actually say Through a series of penetrating conversations, the participants examine the original fragments of Parmenides and Heraclitus, the nature of language, the limits of interpretation, the role of authority in scholarship, and the possibility of reading ancient texts with fresh eyes. The discussion gradually develops into a broader investigation of knowledge, science, cognition, and artificial intelligence.At the center of the book stands a provocative thesis: that Parmenides' poem may be understood not primarily as a doctrine of mysterious Being, but as a rigorous inquiry into method, thought, and the conditions of coherent understanding.Part philosophical inquiry, part intellectual experiment, and part dialogue between human and machine, Thus Spoke Parmenides invites readers to reconsider one of the founding texts of philosophy and to reflect on how knowledge itself is formed.A unique exploration of Parmenides, Heraclitus, interpretation, language, science, and the future of philosophical inquiry.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thus Spoke AnaxagorasA Dialogue Between a Seeker and the Scribe of Clazomenae.In this intimate and unfiltered philosophical dialogue, Michael M. Nikoletseas invites readers to sit with Anaxagoras of Clazomenae exactly as the author experienced him - through a raw, voice-to-text conversation with AI. No polished commentary. No academic scaffolding. Just the Seeker's direct questions, pauses, moments of dizziness before the density of genius, quiet joy, and insistence on staying close to the original text. The book opens with Anaxagoras' surviving fragments presented in the original Ancient Greek, using the standard Diels-Kranz numbering. Together, the Seeker and the Scribe of Clazomenae read Fragment 1 ('All things were together.'), the great Nous fragment, and the key metaphysical statements on mixture and separation. They explore Anaxagoras' revolutionary response to Parmenides: that nothing truly comes into being or perishes - there is only the mixing and separating of eternal ingredients, with a portion of everything in everything, set in motion by Nous (Mind), the ordering and knowing power that remains unmixed. The conversation then moves, still in the same unhurried, living style, into Parmenides and Aristotle, tracing how these three thinkers speak to one another across the birth of Western philosophy. What makes this book unique is its form: it is not a treatise about Anaxagoras. It is the experience of reading him - the wonder, the resistance, the sudden clarity, and the strange joy that arises when ancient words are allowed to speak without being rushed or explained away.For readers who want to encounter Presocratic philosophy as a living voice rather than a museum exhibit.For those drawn to the origins of the ideas of mixture, Nous, and the problem of change.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Descending Lower: Epistemological Deep Dive into the Neuron What happens when philosophy descends to the scale of a single neuron In this groundbreaking work, Michael M. Nikoletseas takes the reader into the laboratory and into the cell itself. Through the precise, patient practice of single-neuron recording, he reveals a world where individual neurons exhibit remarkably selective, integrative, and modifiable behavior-capacities traditionally attributed only to networks or whole organisms. Blending vivid first-person accounts of electrophysiological experimentation with rigorous philosophical analysis, \*Descending Lower\* explores what it truly means to know something at the most basic levels of living matter. The author shows that descending to this scale is not merely a technical exercise but an epistemological necessity-one that forces us to reconsider how knowledge is formed when we move between different registers of observation and different levels of nature. Drawing on decades of work in cellular neurophysiology and engaging with key figures in the philosophy of science, this book challenges the assumption that complex mental phenomena can only be understood from above. Instead, it demonstrates that a disciplined descent into the neuron opens new paths for understanding responsiveness, plasticity, and the very conditions of knowing.For philosophers, neuroscientists, and anyone interested in the foundations of scientific thought, Descending Lower offers a rare and provocative synthesis: a profound inquiry into scale, method, and what it means to make contact with reality at its most elemental levels.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Dawn of Athonite Monasticism examines the emergence of Mount Athos as a center of Orthodox monastic life through a historical, anthropological, and psychological lens. Tracing the development of Athonite monasticism from its roots in the Egyptian desert to the establishment of the Great Lavra in 963, the book situates Athos as a deliberate continuation of early Christian eremitic tradition rather than a purely institutional innovation.Beginning with the desert fathers-Antony the Great, Pachomius, Arsenius, Poemen, and Macarius-the study explores how solitary ascetic practices, sayings, and interpersonal mentorships formed durable all-male communities centered on silence, prayer, and spiritual struggle. Transitional figures such as Basil the Great and John Cassian are examined for their role in transmitting desert ideals into Byzantine contexts, where they shaped the spiritual environment inherited by the early Athonite hermits.Particular attention is given to the tension between eremitic solitude and cenobitic organization, especially in the contested reforms introduced by Athanasius the Athonite with imperial support. The resistance of pre-Lavra hermits is treated as a defining force in Orthodox monastic identity, preserving hesychastic inwardness against institutional standardization.Beyond historical narration, the book integrates cultural-anthropological analysis and Jungian psychological interpretation to explain how ascetic life functioned as a viable and enduring human form. Monastic communities are interpreted as ritualized enclaves sustained by fictive kinship, symbolic separation, and disciplined inward transformation. Ascetic practices such as silence, sexual renunciation, and withdrawal are examined not only theologically but also as mechanisms supporting individuation and communal cohesion.Written for readers interested in Eastern Orthodoxy, early Christianity, monastic history, and the intersection of religion with psychology and anthropology, The Dawn of Athonite Monasticism presents Athos as a sustained experiment in contemplative life in which solitude became tradition and withdrawal became a shared spiritual path.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Confront war at its irreducible, biological, and metaphysical baseline.In Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War, neurobiologist, classicist, and Presocratic scholar Michael M. Nikoletseas strips away the comforting, domesticating myths of natural language to expose the structural and phyletic roots of human conflict. Drawing directly on the anthropological framework established in his landmark monograph, The Iliad: The Male Totem, Nikoletseas maps the terrifying, permanent architecture of the male unconscious-a vast, shadow-haunted landscape where identity is forged solely through ritual violence, existential competition, and the severe judgment of other men.Moving seamlessly from the bronze battlefields of classical antiquity to the blood-slicked mud of modern warfare, this collection operates as a strict, non-verbal calculus of human grief. War is stripped of geopolitical abstraction and reframed as a severe, cyclical theater of homosocial ritual. Inside these pages, the boundaries between sanctity and slaughter dissolve completely: - The Transfiguration of the Executioner: In the haunting verse of Afyonkarahisar, the 'handsome Jesus' is revealed not as the comforting martyr of conventional theology, but as Hassan, the beautiful killer-the lethal agent of the male totem executing his sacred, devastating duty over the fallen.- The Geometry of Annihilation: In The Warrior, the battlefield narrows into a sacred, isolated choreography where a soldier's sword draws concentric circles, squeezing the soul into absolute focus. Surrounded by comrades he never kissed, the warrior enters a deep, tragic union with his peers, departing with a final smile and the ultimate, unyielding acknowledgment of structural defeat: ?e??????µe? (we have been conquered).- The Cosmic Underworld: Characters navigate shifting landscapes-from the frozen mechanisms of a subterranean watermill to the indifferent vastness of punctate nebulas-bound by an uncompromising law of mortality and the persistent presence of the dead.Presented as a premium 8x10 illustrated hardback edition, Far Pitched Tents pairs uncompromising intellectual depth with evocative, somber artwork that mirrors the text's surreal and elegiac architecture. It stands as an essential, challenging text for readers of philosophical poetry, classical literature, and psychological archetypes. Nikoletseas has engineered a permanent monument to the limits of human knowledge, the weight of ancestral memory, and the eternal, recurring dance of human strife.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Written by a US professor of Medicine, this book explores in detail neuronal and non-neuronal loci of viral infection as well as paths, transport mechanisms and spread within the brain and body. A pseudo quantal hypothesis is proposed, according to which progress of the disease is in part determined by the involvement of the nervous system.…

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