Bücher von George Dimos

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the Ancient World, , language: Modern Greek, abstract: Jonathan M. Hall in the first page of his well-known book ¿Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity¿ is honest enough to declare that ¿in the wake of the second world war - and more particularly the Holocaust - the motives for treating ethnic identity as a valid area of research were discredited. The subject of ancient Greek ethnicity was no exception¿. The concept of race has of course also been discredited. Thus - as per previous comment, we can use the term ¿Greek population¿ instead. But this term is very weak outside its biological context. Can we use the expression ¿Greek structure of thought¿ for the purposes of an analysis of the ¿Greek Continuity¿? The ¿Greek structure of thought¿ could be useful in examining if an author - especially in ages very distant to us-writes as a native Greek or uses rules learned in a schoolroom, the latter indicating that he is not a native speaker. But this nativity test, even if it is accompanied by the author¿s observance of attitudes developed in the classical era, cannot provide us with definite results. ¿Greek peoplehood¿ or ¿Greek collective identity¿ are I think better expressions to replace the disallowed ¿ethnic identity¿ or ¿race¿. Six of the essays in this booklet (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8) constitute part of the long excursus of my unpublished work ¿Greek Continuity.¿ This work examines the continuity of the Greek collective identity from the end of the classical period in 300 BCE (following the deaths of Aristotle and Alexander the Great) till the fall of Constantinople in 1453 CE. The greatest difficulty in proving this continuity is the impossible task of re-translating (achieving the correct comprehension) of at least the basic Greek texts e.g. Plato and Aristotle. Misapprehensions as regards the Greek terminology by other peoplehoods did not lead only to the various ecclesiastical schisms and fights in the Ecumenical Synods but also to scientific misinterpretations. This backwardness with its ghost dominated phantasy world has created solid ¿mental¿ interpretation barriers that still do not allow us to get the full benefits of some unparalleled thinkers and scientists. Essay 1 of this collection tries to transfer correctly the ¿soul¿ and some other basic aspects of Platös published work. In Essay 6, I translate the views of Dicaearchus who does not seem to appreciate Plato that much and mostly his Athenian audience.

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Biology - Evolution, , language: Modern Greek, abstract: This essay is a translation into Greek of the original text which was written in English. In half its length, it examines the necessary aspects of the evolution theory related to the assertions of the grey sexuality (non ¿binary, multi-gender, etc.) political, religious and scientific post- gnostic movement. It follows the classical views of Erwin Schrodinger, who by his wave equation, is basically responsible for modern biology; and the perspective of the population geneticist Masatoshi Nei. It also deals with the important views of Elliot Sober and Robert I. Richards regarding evolution and Darwin.The rest of the essay examines characteristics of the movement and views and circumstances involved that helped its ascendancy into one of the main ingredients and of the current political and intellectual mainstream. It thus discusses: the religious-like nature of the movement ; their perception for the creation of a new genos, a new genotype, a new genetic constitution which goes back to the middle eastern origins of populist Christianism; Darwin¿s religious like ¿intelligent selector¿; Darwin¿s view on the ¿common ancestry¿ according to which lineages of different species faced no walls (no insuperable species boundaries) in their evolution; the (even) feign Lamarckism which is always present in the last 200 years; the Romanticism movement which culminate in the German ¿Naturphilosophie¿;-and its continuation in the Artaman League; the pivotal role of Alexander von Humboldt, and his reliance on teleological and ¿organic¿ metaphors¿; the concept ¿¿¿ ¿organic¿ which runs through Marxism; the non-scientific agenda (Franz Boas, Frankfurt School, critical theory, postmodernism) which took out all biological perspectives from the social sciences and replaced them with concepts of culture.All these attempts managed to absorb God plus a certain tribalism into the ¿laws of nature¿ (despite their claims of trying to produce the exact opposite results) and thus annul the work of Greek thought and cripple logical precision. This attempt to alter the scientific thought which possibly took its final form in the 1950¿s ¿and produced the supernatural characteristics of today¿s genomic medicine; the holism and string theory pranks, etc. but also led (out of despair I suppose) good scientists like Gerard 't Hooft to try measure ontology mathematically are also discussed in this essay.

Essay from the year 1990 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the Ancient World, , language: English, abstract: This text was written in 1990 and presents evidence for a possible transformation of the Platonic concept of mimesis into a theory of literature by Aristotle. In addition it presents the basic aspects of the Aristotelian method as evidenced in his work ¿Poetics¿. It also examines the way in which the contemporary literary criticism conceptualises mimesis. When dealing with the ¿Poetics¿ of Aristotle, we can select (as a tool through which we will better analyse the concept of literature which he has produced) between the analysis of some standard ¿ basic concepts which are found in his treatise; for example the concept of hamartia, the concept of katharsis, the concept of simple and complex tragedy, the concept of mimesis or to analyze the tragic character as it is presented in Aristotle.I chose to use the concept of mimesis since, it is a more technical concept (or at least semi-technical) and in this way it is more related to the technical analysis of the contemporary literary criticism.I also chose this tool in order to check if the theory of mimesis in Aristotle and in Plato coincide or not (some authors take it as synonymous).The text is divided into six parts.- The first part will deal with a fictional presentation (view) of when the concept of imitation first appeared.- The second part I will deal with the duplicity of the ¿mimeisthai¿ in Platös works.- In the third part I will present two basic differences in the way Aristotle and Plato conceive the concept of mimesis .- In the fourth part I¿ll deal with the basic concepts of Aris-totle¿s method (formal analysis).- In the fifth part I will examine the concept of pleasure in Aristotle¿s Poetics.- The sixth part will deal with theories which tried to bring something of the technicalities and the spirit of the Aristotelian analysis in our century. I will also present the modern schools of literary criticism which make much of what Plato disqualifies in mimesis: the mask, the disappearance of the author, the simulacrum, anonymity, apocryphal textuality and so on.

Essay from the year 1987 in the subject Psychology - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This text presents one of the very few opportunities one can have to escape from the eternal voyage round and round the moebius strip of psychoanalysis. This escape can be achieved in general by using the Lacanian construction. Lacan was the most authoritative psychoanalyst after Freund and maybe the last one; since his theory (although he never admitted it; always insisting that he is a follower of Freund) proved the limitations of the Freudian paradigm (not only from the point of view of logic) making clear that the annihilation of the possibility of a subject hood is unavoidable in psychoanalysis. Of course the avoidance of this annihilation might be not the purpose of psychoanalysis but it is a populist belief and a populist expected outcome of psychoanalysis. The use of (a) is the only reaction to the annihilation and in psychoanalysis this object (a) takes always the form of a secretion. This text describes what is involved in the process of creating and watching a Western Painting according to the Lacanian Theory. It also provides the means for the escape we mentioned before which is an escape from the ¿Law¿ from the pair of the eyes that are always looking at us through a Western Painting. Reading this text requires a thorough knowledge of the Freudian and Lacanian literature but also of the French so called philosophical, postmodernist concepts.

Essay from the year 1987 in the subject Greek Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The text summarizes and examines the five main categories of thought/ research that tried to interpret the man-woman relations in ancient Greece. That is authors that find a ¿patriarchal bias¿, feminist and Marxist scholars; authors that used Freudian tools; feminist writers that analyzed some evidence (leaving aside the Marxist and Freudian stereotypes); and finally the thoughts of Foucault on the issue. Then we discuss issues related to the interpretation or misinterpretations of Plato especially what some authors see as ¿contradictory sides of Platös views about women¿ that are tied to the distinction he (supposedly) makes between soul and body. We touch the issue of misinterpretation of various Greek myths and also the missing references to the turbulence which characterizes the classical era. Then we conclude that it is beyond doubt that there exists in Ancient Greece a male-female polarity but as most of the findings tend to show, this does not incite any hostility in the relations between the sexes. We then (and given the lack of serious research done on that issue) we proceed guided only by the Lacanian theory of ¿Other¿ to propose a possible Greek articulation of the woman as ¿Other¿.