Search results for: Panos Eliopoulos
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Dialogue and Universalism > 2015 > 1 > 30-37
Epicurean physics elaborates on a system of universal kinetics as regards the crea-tion of the world. One of the main principles is that there is no genesis without motion. The human being, as all other beings, is the product of the motion of atoms within the cosmic void. Due to a sudden swerve in the motion of some atoms, it can be upheld, according to the Epicureans and Lucretius, that there is...
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Dialogue and Universalism > 2015 > 1 > 7-8
With great pleasure we present the first collective volume, consisting of the extended and revised papers of the 2014 conference of the International Society for Universal Dialogue (ISUD) in Craiova, Romania. The papers included in the collective volumes under the title The Human Being: Its Nature and Func-tions are the outcome of two phases of blind reviews (abstracts and full papers) in the year...
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Dialogue and Universalism > 2014 > 3 > 30-35
The word cosmopolitanism is derived from “cosmos” (universe) and “polites” (citi-zen). The cosmopolite is a citizen of the world. The Stoics elaborate on the theme, using the ideas of oikeiosis and sympathy as its basis, thus drawing from their physics. Partic-ularly, Epictetus defends cosmopolitanism on the assumption that man is akin to God, whereas Marcus Aurelius highlights the common possession...
