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Aristotle's Concept of Analogy and its Function in the Metaphysics
(2016-08-31)
This thesis aims to settle an old dispute concerning Aristotle’s concept of analogy and its function in the Metaphysics. The question is whether Aristotle’s theory of pros hen legomena, things predicated in reference to ...
ῥοπὴ βίου μοι: THE PASSIVE ROUTE TO APOTHEOSIS IN SOPHOCLES' OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
(2016-08-26)
This thesis seeks to demonstrate the necessary role of passivity in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus as a catalyst of Oedipus’ restoration to community, of his ethical innocence and of the renewed personal agency that culminates ...
᾿Εγὼ τὸ Αλφα καὶ τὸ Ωμεγα, ἠ ἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος: Aristotelian Teleology and Christian Eschatology in Origen’s De Principiis (An Eriugenian Reading of Origen)
(2016-09-01)
The central logic of Origen’s De Principiis rests upon the axiom that “the end must be like the beginning.” Despite the importance of this principle, Origen never elaborates upon it, but simply asserts it as the incontrovertible ...