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The article focuses on the concept of poikilia which has also resisted commentary because of its complex and dubious status in questions of both moral and aesthetic value. Topics include considered in certain periods and contexts, it had positive value and examines it was associated with order, craft, complexity, wonderous variety and beauty.

The article explores the thematic connections between Bong Joon-ho's film "Parasite" and nineteenth-century Russian literature, particularly in relation to the concepts of the "superfluous man" and the house. It delves into the ideas of superfluity and parasitism in modern society, drawing from the works of Hannah Arendt, and examines how the film addresses these themes in the context of Confucian values and urban space.

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Presocratics: Natural Philosophers before Socrates, by James Warren. Ancient Philosophies series. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. 224 pp. $19.95 US (paper). James Warren, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Cambridge, [...]

Chapter 9 of the book "Timaeus" by Plotinus is presented. It explores artistic experience with mirrors and their internal nature, reality of Plotinian picture, and existence of natural images. It highlights circumvent discursivity of images, production of knowledge and sense-perception, and mutual understanding.

In the article the author examines a reference made by Merab Mamardashvili in his book Classical and Non-classical Ideals of Rationality to the work of the Georgian psychologist Dimitri Uznadze (1886-1950). Uznadze's concepts are introduced and described for the purpose of establishing how Uznadze's overall project as represented by his theory of "set" can lead to a better understanding of certain basic intentions of Mamardashvili's philosophy. This is done primarily through an analysis of Mamardashvili's reception of Uznadze's theory of set. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]