Cropsey on Plato and the Unity of Philosophy

Abstract

Cropsey's book, Plato's World, contains his longest and most sustained reflections on a set of Platonic dialogues, but it is not the first work he published on Plato or the last he intended to write. His last collection of essays, On Humanity's Intensive Introspection, shows that in his writings on Plato Cropsey was attempting to answer a broader question: What is philosophy?     

A Revolution in Plato Scholarship

Abstract

Catherine Zuckert's new book on Plato is a monumental work that should revolutionize Plato scholarship. I argue that its principal claims about ordering Plato's dialogues according to their dramatic chronology and about the development of Socrates in relation to Plato's other philosophers are highly plausible and powerfully presented. The book also makes the case for Socrates as “Plato's hero” whose greatness lies in understanding the human realm of the noble and the good independently of cosmology or metaphysics; and it challenges us to ask if Plato and Catherine Zuckert embrace this model of Socratic philosophy as the highest and happiest way of life.     

Pursuing the Good,Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato s Republic

‘Pursuing the good’ is an old subject in both social history of ancient Greece and Greek philosophy studies. There is hardly anything new when we talk about virtue or morality in the time of Plato and Aristotle. In the area of Greek history, many books and articles on or relevant to that     

Eight Byzantine Shipwrecks from the Theodosian Harbour Excavations at Yenikapı in Istanbul,Turkey: an introduction

Excavations at Yenikap? in Istanbul, Turkey, related to the Marmaray Project, have unearthed remains of Constantinople's Theodosian Harbour, including 37 Byzantine shipwrecks of 5th‐ to 11th‐century date. Eight of these shipwrecks, six round ships and two of the first long ships, or galleys, to be excavated from the Byzantine period, were studied by archaeologists from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. These well‐preserved shipwrecks are an important new source of information on the maritime commerce of Constantinople and the gradual shift from shell‐based to skeleton‐based shipbuilding in the Mediterranean during the second half of the first millennium AD.     

在表格形式中的行政法规和刑法典

本文致力于1730年左右出现的将刑法典和处分则例的内容被编辑为复杂程度不同表格的特定类型的官方手册。其目的是方便于掌握既增殖且不断更新的法律要领。第一部分描述了一系列的作品在十九世纪末修订和再版的历史谱系,顺便讨论了制表作者的行政专家背景、出版者的实践和针对的公众。第二部分更详细地论述表格表象的逻辑,易言之,概括和重组立法汇编文本使之"一目了然"所采用的各种方法。     

《达·芬奇密码》与“后福特式”生产

美国畅销小说《达·芬奇密码》在全球的热销不仅取决于小说自身“逼真性”的营造、新奇的情节,还依赖于小说“后福特式”生产的策略。在迎合了消费文化和“雅皮士”情趣的前提下,小说打了一场作品本身、电影及周边产品的“三维立体战”,依托网络、媒体、现代的传播方式极大地促进了小说文本的价值,从而使小说取得了极大的成功。     

民间文化、江湖义气与会党的关系

清代秘密会党勃兴,是与当时的社会历史环境分不开的。一个日渐扩大的游民阶层是会党生存蔓延的社会基础,在民间文化基础上形成的游民文化在会党身上得到了集中体现。民间文学、戏剧中渲染的“义”的观念广泛地流传于下层社会,人们称之为“江湖义气”,会党采取拿来主义,形成了独具特色的道德观念和“法律”观念。会党是下层社会组织,无法从上层文化中吸取营养,民间文学、民间戏剧就成为他们建立自己的帮会文化的当然来源。“义”在秘密会党中无所不在,本文主要从会党的仪式、隐语、暗号、流行数字等几个方面作些叙述。会党利用并改造了民间普遍存在的兄弟结拜、江湖义气等内容,为自己的组织、活动、反抗目标服务。     

The Hull Construction of Yenikapı 14 (YK 14), a Middle Byzantine Shipwreck from Constantinople's Theodosian Harbour,Istanbul, Turkey

Yenikap? 14 (YK 14) is one of 37 shipwrecks discovered by the Istanbul Archaeological Museums during the Marmaray Project excavations in Istanbul's Yenikap? neighbourhood, the site of Constantinople's Theodosian Harbour. Dated to the 9th century AD, YK 14 is one of a group of Yenikap? round ships constructed using similar methods: it was a flat‐floored, shallow‐draught vessel built primarily of oak using a distinctive combination of shell‐ and skeleton‐based construction methods. Regularly spaced pegs called coaks were used to assemble the hull planking edge‐to‐edge from the keel to the first wale, above which planks were fastened exclusively to frames.     

明治旧民法典的编纂及其特点

明治旧民法典是日本近代法制建设的重要一页,虽然其未被实施,但是,从明治旧民法典编纂过程来看,它是近代日本实现民族独立和社会发展的需要,对近代日本法律体制的形成有深远的影响。     

《天盛改旧新定律令》西夏文题名的汉文移译与成书年代

俄藏黑水城西夏文法律文献《■》中文标题:深受唐宋时期综合性王朝法典编纂体例与中文标题:层面嬗变的客观影响,基于唐末五代以来王朝法典因编纂体例改变一般以"刑法统类"或"条法"中文标题:的历史趋势与史实,结合西夏文语义学,其汉文中文标题:应移译为《重详定天盛刑统》。作者认为《天盛改旧新定律令》制定与任得敬擅权毫无关系,并以此为切入点,讨论了《天盛改旧新定律令》的年代学问题,认为《天盛改旧新定律令》于天盛初年(1150)在西夏旧律基础上修纂成书,乾祐后期又经重修,应不早于1183年,今日所见《重详定天盛刑统》当属后者。学界中文标题:《颁律表》的俄藏Инв.No.2570号西夏文文献应中文标题:为《进重详定天盛刑统表》。     

全站仪代码在田野考古中的运用和研究

全站仪代码对测量数据分类管理有非常重要的作用,本文根据坑南遗址发现的遗迹和遗物的数据属性,编制了一套代码,将其运用于实际测量中。并提出代码编制中的注意事项。     

论《唐律疏议》中身份对刑罚的影响

《唐律疏议》是中国传统法律的典型代表。该部法典集中地体现了中国传统法律中身份影响刑罚判决的特点。特殊身份享有刑罚特权,而身份等级的高下对比,更是定罪量刑中不可缺乏的考虑因素。这样的结果是同样的案件,却由于当事双方之间的不同身份对比关系,而出现不同的法律后果。这种身份影响刑罚现象的原因在于儒家法律思想所主张的礼制与法律的结合。