This article explores three fragments of Empedocles through cultural myth criticism, focusing on the relationship between myth, cosmology, and soteriology. Set within the transition from Archaic to Classical Greece, it examines the concepts of philótēs and neîkos to elucidate the cosmic cycle and the soul’s purification. Through philological and comparative analysis with Orphic and Pythagorean...
The irrationalist and vitalist options in the philosophy of the early twentieth century find in María Zambrano a liminal proposal. The author proposes a double movement: archaizing in order to renew the model of a philosophy saturated with formulas and without experiential content. To do so, she reads Plato, the father of Greek rationalism, through her acute hermeneutics to demonstrate that the...