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Catherine Joanna Rowett, von 1979 bis 2011 auch bekannt unter ihrem Autorinnennamen Catherine Osborne , ist eine britische Philosophin und Politikerin . Rowett spezialisierte sich auf griechische, insbesondere vorsokratische Philosophie und dozierte an mehreren britischen Universitäten. Ab der Europawahl 2019 bis zum 31. Januar 2020 war sie Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments als Teil der Fraktion Die Grünen/EFA. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Dezember 1956
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“Sophistry is one of the methods by which politicians dress up their policies in alien clothing, to pass them off as more desirable than they really are. Spin doctors thrive best where ‘democracy’ is the slogan.”

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Quelle: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 7 : Spin doctors of the 5th century

“Much of the content of so-called Pythagorean teaching appears to be a mix of mystical gobble-de-gook and adulatory veneration of the genius of the founder.”

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Quelle: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 6 : Pythagoras and other mysteries

“For Heraclitus, the logos is something that we need to learn to notice if we are to understand the true significance of the world. It manifests itself all around us but, Heraclitus suggests, only a few intelligent people ever realize what is going on.”

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Quelle: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 5 : Heraclitus

“Plato’s metaphysics grew out of that of Parmenides, together with a strong feel for Heraclitus’s account of the physical world as a world of incessant change. His ethics were deeply inspired by Socrates, but his views on the soul also pick up on motifs that emerge in Pythagoras.”

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Quelle: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 4 : Reality and appearance: more adventures in metaphysics

“Xenophanes might be saying that we have only superficial understanding, and we never get to knowledge of the clear truth.”

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Quelle: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 4 : Reality and appearance: more adventures in metaphysics

“By taking us on a cumulative sequence from our own familiar gods, through those of other ethnic groups, to those of animals, Xenophanes shows that our own images have no more authority than those of animals.”

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Quelle: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 4 : Reality and appearance: more adventures in metaphysics

“Philosophy asks for a reason, not just a scientific fact.”

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Quelle: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 1 : Lost words, forgotten worlds

“Besides the ‘how many?’ question, Empedocles seems to be answering two other ancient questions: ‘How did the world come to be as it now is?’ and ‘How did it come to have the creatures that it now has?’. [...] His answers are subtle and intricate.”

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Quelle: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 1 : Lost words, forgotten worlds

“If we are to understand what is going on in Empedocles’s writings, we need to think about the philosophical motives that drive him, and we need to make use of the bits of text we already had before the papyrus turned up.”

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Quelle: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 1 : Lost words, forgotten worlds

“Often, when thinking about Socrates (or about Plato’s depiction of Socrates), we need to remember that he is reacting to the Presocratics, but the reverse is never true.”

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Quelle: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Introduction

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