Plato, thus, is pointing in a direction that many years later Marshall McLuhan (although with a different mood and, of course, from another historical and cultural matrix) would also travel when theorizing about the mia. II Writing is a mium, and as such, it generates an undeniable impact on the way we approach reality and…
Pharus or Beauty. Is a famous dialogue. Written by Plato. In addition to the central theme announc through the title of the work, some of its passages are also dicat to addressing the issue of the transmission of knowlge and the role that writing plays in this. The philosopher of the Academy, bringing up a…
God, the soul and the universe conceiv as a totalizing idea. Thus, under the label of ontology, the disquisitions undertaken by philosophers dicat to treading the misty territories of being were delimiting a philosophical discipline with its own name, giving rise to the formulation of various theories about fundamental objects using a specializ conceptual lexicon,…
In the middle of the 16th century. Johann Clauberg would use for the first time the term. Ontology” (from the Greek ὄντος (ontos): what is, what exists): this notion is found in the prologue of his book. Elementa philosophiae sive ontosophia , publish in 1646. From then on, this term would be us profusely and…
vOf everything that exists. A science that was systematically integrat by those principles would constitute the “first philosophy”, that is, a type of paradigmatic knowlge, a supreme knowlge that would embody full wisdom. Thus, an expression that only referr to the position occupi by some writings comes to designate the type of knowlge that aristotle…
