https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/23803 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:00:54 GMT 2026-04-28T05:00:54Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/23808 ‘A Path for Understanding’ Ferella, Chiara Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die Verwendung von Reise-Metaphern von drei frühgriechischen Denkern: Heraklit, Parmenides und Empedokles. Meine Untersuchung hebt die ausdruckstarke, leichtplastische und polyvalente Natur dieses Metaphern-Bereiches sowohl in Bezug auf diversen Autoren, als auch in ein und demselben Text hervor. Im Fokus steht der Zusammenhangzwischen Metapher, Imagi­nation und philosophischer Argumentation, besonders wenn ein neuer metaphorischer Stratus in einen schon etablierten Metapher-Bereich eingeführt wird. Schließlich wird auch untersucht, in wie fern ein neuer metaphorischer Stratus, indem dieser neue Kenntnisse und Einsichten strukturiert und organisiert, zum kreativen Denken und zur theoretischen Argumentation beiträgt.; This paper analyzes the use of journey metaphors by three early Greek philosophers, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles. My investigation emphasizes the powerful, malleable and polyvalent nature of this metaphor cluster both with reference to diverse authors and in the same text. It highlights, moreover, the relationship between metaphor, imagination and philosophical argumentation, above all when a fresh metaphorical stratum is introduced within an already established metaphor. Finally, it investigates to what extent the introduction of a fresh metaphorical stratum contributes to creative thinking and, by structuring and organizing new insights, to theoretical argumentation. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/23808 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/23811 An Invitation from Plato Oki-Suga, Mai To trace paths to knowledge or to follow the journey searching for knowledge is to some extent equivalent to reading a philosophical book. Plato, who perceives this relation between journey and philosophy, writes his dialogues as if each of his works were a journey to knowledge. This paper inquires into the ascent and descent motif that is the symbolic motion of a philosophical journey and appears in Plato’s Politeia repeatedly. By means of this motif, Plato depicts the journey of the soul in several different ways. This examination will show a possible way to read Plato’s dialogue as a philosophical journey. This journey is undertaken by Plato or the figure Socrates, but at the same time it involves its readers in philosophical inquiries. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/23811 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/23816 Finding Identities on the Way to Rome Fascione, Sara The theme of the journey has a primary relevance in the first book of Sidonius Apollinaris’ Letters. It represents not only an opportunity of personal growth, but also a way to rediscover the paths that lead to the very bases of Romanitas. In this sense, the peregrinatio shapes the life of travellers: on the way to Rome Sidonius Apollinaris, born in Lyon, really becomes Roman (Sidon.Epist. 1.5); Eutropius, who decides to remain in Gaul, refuses his cultural identity, turning into a peregrinus in his own land (Sidon.Epist. 1.6). Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/23816 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/23817 Homer’s Odyssey in the Hands of its Allegorists Grey, Safari The allegorical exegetic tradition was arguably the most popular form of literary criticism in antiquity. Amongst the ancient allegorists we encounter a variety of names and philosophic backgrounds spanning from Pherecydes of Syros to Proclus the Successor. Many of these writers believed that Homer’s epics revealed philosophical doctrines through the means of hyponoia or ‘undermeanings’. Within this tradition was a focus on cosmological, cosmogonical and theological matters which attracted a variety of commentators despite their philosophical backgrounds. It is the intention of this paper to draw attention to two writers: Heraclitus, and Porphyry of Tyre. This paper also intends to demonstrate that the tradition of cosmic allegorical exegesis is still practiced in modern scholarship. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/23817 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z