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Charles H. Kahn presented in 1965 to the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at its meeting with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association a notable work under the title “The Greek Verb ‘To Be’ and the Problem of Being”. It was printed the following year in
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Presocratics and Plato: Festschrift at Delphi in Honor of Charles Kahn : Papers Presented at the Festschrift Symposium in Honor of Charles Kahn Organized by the Hyele Institute for Comparative Studies European Cultural Center of Delphi, June 3rd-7th, 2009, Delphi,
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for its introduction of interrelated conceptions of existence and creation, which established a particular view, which involved a superadding of a matter to a form instead of further forming or reforming a matter that already stands in relation to a form.
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In terms of the nature of Being, Kahn maintains that notions in the contemporary analytical philosophy appear to form a heterogeneous bundle with no focal concept of "be" to hold them together. On the other hand, he cited
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fragments likewise remained the most widely cited English translation of Heraclitus, more or less representing the 'standard interpretation' for non-expert scholars.
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as a separate topic or as a "central and implicit theme" of his philosophy. Aristotle, says Kahn, starts "from the reality of the world." For Back, Kahn treats as
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presents the Platonic dialogues as collectively constituting a meaningful philosophical program. He argued for
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Kahn C., “The Greek Verb ‘To Be’ and the Concept of Being”, Foundations of Language 2.3 (1966) 245-265.
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Kahn, Charles H. (1976). "Why Existence does not Emerge as a Distinct Concept in Greek Philosophy".
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was still as of 2020 the most important reference work on the subject, and his 1979 edition of the
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The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary
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Aristotle: Semantics and Ontology: Volume I: General Introduction. The Works on Logic
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any distinction of "the 'is' of predication" from "the 'is' of existence".
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Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form
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Patterson, Richard; Karasmanēs, Vasilēs; Hermann, Arnold, eds. (2012).
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Why Existence does not Emerge as a Distinct Concept in Greek Philosophy
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For the president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, see
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as one of the three concepts - along with truth and reality - that
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Comparative Essays in Early Greek and Chinese Rational Thinking
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Platonic Questions: Dialogues with the Silent Philosopher
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Kahn has twice been the recipient of an award by the
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Charles N. Kahn III
classicist
professor emeritus
philosophy
University of Pennsylvania
Plato
Anaximander
Heraclitus
Foundations of Language
Anaximander
Pythagoreans
Oxford University Press
predication
ontology
Allan Back
existence
anachronism
medieval philosophy
psychagogia
American Council of Learned Societies
National Endowment for the Humanities
Guggenheim Foundation
Fellow
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
festschrift
Werner Jaeger
Gesellschaft fĂźr antike Philosophie
Sisyphus fragment
"Charles H. Kahn, Philosophy"
ISBN

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