title: Plato’s Socrates and a new interpretation of the kosmos
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metadata.value: Zelinová, Zuzana
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-09-03T17:23:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-09-03T17:23:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Zelinová Z. Plato’s Socrates and a new interpretation of the kosmos. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 53–63.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33035
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: One of the most common problems encountered in present-day research into ancient natural
  philosophy is the question of when the term kosmos (κόσμος) began to be used not only for
  order, but also for the meaning of world order. This article attempts to argue that this new interpretation
  of kosmos is connected with Socratic thought and asserts that the Socratic anthropological
  turn can only be meaningfully discussed due to changes in the field of natural philosophy.
  This anthropological turn is best expressed by Roman orator and philosopher Cicero
  in his well-known work Tusculan Disputations. The article attempts to offer an interpretation
  based on the belief that the collocation world order presumes a philosophical turn towards
  a focus on humans and their internal world experiences. For the author’s interpretation, the
  specific concept of koinonia (κοινωνία) as it is found first in Empedocles’ fragments and later
  in Plato’s philosophy is important. The article consists of three parts: the first part deals with
  several traditional meanings of kosmos (Homer, Hesiod, Thales, Anaximenes, Anaximander,
  Heraclitus, Pythagoreans etc.), the second part with meanings that Socratic philosophy (especially
  Plato, partly Xenophon) assigns to the term, and the final part attempts to argue that
  it is explicitly Plato who first began using kosmos with the meaning of world or world order.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This article was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under contract
  no. APVV-18-0103, Paradigmatic Changes in the Understanding of Universe and Man from Philosophical,
  Theological, and Physical Perspectives.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Empedocles
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Socrates
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Plato
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: kosmos
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cosmology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Plato’s Socrates and a new interpretation of the kosmos
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metadata.value: Article
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