Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1. Prologue

Laërtius, Diogenes

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“…To ward off atheism (asébeia) and the corruption of the youth, Anaxagoras and Socrates were indeed sentenced to death. 15 Nevertheless, relativisation of convention, accompanying the new lógos-thinking, would not be long in coming. As a representative of the new business model of the sophists to teach the new lógos for a fee, here just Protagoras (from Abdera in Thrace) may be mentioned who in the 5th century BC taught in Athens that the measure (métron) of all things is the human (ánthropos).…”

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The Three Powerful Traditions of Thinking that Constitute Homeopathy

Schmidt

2024

Homeopathy

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By means of a historical, classical philological and philosophical approach, this paper attempts to demonstrate that homeopathy is based on three powerful traditions of thinking, which can be traced back to Ancient Greece's pre-Socratic era. Actually, it seems to be constituted by what may be termed lógos-, hómoion- and iásthai-thinking: that is, thinking in terms of rationality, similarity and healing. By contrast, modern medicine tends to be aligned with just one of these traditions, at the expense of the others, this being not without risk and adverse effects. It is mainly determined by the first type of rationality that genealogically derives from, and is therefore compatible with, the logic of economics whose predominance in the health care systems of modern societies is progressively rising. Homeopathy, however, may not be sufficiently and fairly understood without taking into account the complementary forms of thinking on which it also rests, such as the principle of similarity in an all-encompassing sense, and ancient healing knowledge in the tradition of catharsis. As a corollary of being essentially constituted by the three, homeopathy may persistently be in need of a dynamic equilibrium of its three constituent bases. Attempts to approach homeopathy from only one of the indicated modes of thinking fail to grasp its essence and result in figments or caricatures of what homeopathy was originally meant to be.

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The Three Powerful Traditions of Thinking that Constitute Homeopathy

Schmidt

2024

Homeopathy

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Love and Theatre in the Works of Nikephoros Basilakes

Kotłowska

2019

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A Proletariat of One: Libertarianism and the Psychosis of Authority

Fisher¹

2020

Studia Humana

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Libertarianism has a problem, perhaps an insurmountable one, and its problem lies squarely in the domain from which it is sourced: the intellectual and political elite of the West. As such, it rests on an ontological viewpoint far outside the purview and experience of quotidian man. Furthermore, it rests on an epistemology of the person as sovereign, Natural Law, which requires a concomitant education or understanding of the Classics, or at least self-awareness and the ability to think logically. Many non-intellectuals are either uninterested or incapable of following the Libertarian arguments of personal sovereignty and instead submit. This unconscious submission to the authority of a government, father figure, or other self-appointed “authority” relieves the individual of the psychological pain of breaking out of the herd. C. G. Jung (1875-1961) was adamant that to be an individual is a radical act: “To develop one’s own personality is indeed an unpopular undertaking, a deviation that is highly uncongenial to the herd, an eccentricity smelling of the cenobite, as it seems to the outsider [11, Para. 298]. Further, Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1747-1804) noted that the elite are more than happy to have the masses submit to their authority without question as it advances their control: “a fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired” [9]. The rest of this article explores this psychosis of authority and how Libertarianism suffers in popularity as a result.

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Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1. Prologue

Cited by 8 publications

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The Three Powerful Traditions of Thinking that Constitute Homeopathy

The Three Powerful Traditions of Thinking that Constitute Homeopathy

Love and Theatre in the Works of Nikephoros Basilakes

A Proletariat of One: Libertarianism and the Psychosis of Authority

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