1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781823103321

Autore

Cairns Douglas

Titolo

Pursuing the good : ethics and metaphysics in Plato's Republic / / edited by Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann and Terry Penner [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007

ISBN

0-7486-5248-5

1-281-25216-6

9786611252168

0-7486-3188-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh Leventis studies ; ; 4

Disciplina

320.07

Soggetti

Good and evil

Ethics, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is the form of the good the form of? a question about the plot of the Republic / Terry Penner -- Glaucon's challenge, rational egoism and ordinary morality / Lesley Brown -- Thrasymachean rulers, altruistic rulers and Socratic rulers / Antonio Chu -- Neutralism in Book I of the Republic / George Rudebusch -- The good, advantage, happiness and the form of the good : how continuous with Socratic ethics is Platonic ethics? / Terry Penner -- The form of the good and the good in Plato's Republic / Christopher Rowe -- Flourishing : the central concept of practical though / Richard Kraut -- Is Plato's conception of the form of the good contradictory? / Gerhard Seel -- The good, essences and relations / Andrew S. Mason -- The idea of the good and the other forms in Plato's Republic / Fritz-Gregor Herrmann -- The aporia in the charmides about reflexive knowledge and the contribution to its solution in the sun analogy of the Republic / Vasilis Politis -- The good and mathematics / Christopher Gill -- The good and order : does the Republic display an analogy between a science of ethics and mathematics? / Rachana Kamtekar -- Inquiry and justification in the search for the highest good in Plato and Aristotle /



Mariana Anagnostopoulos -- The carpenter and the good / Rachel Barney -- Conversion or conversation : a note on Plato's philosophical methods / Timothy Chappell.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume combines articles on the ethics  epistemology and ontology of Plato and the influence of his thinking on Aristotle and beyond.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910220040503321

Autore

Lucia Tabares

Titolo

Molecular Nanomachines of the Presynaptic Terminal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (110 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Neurosciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Synaptic transmission is the basis of neuronal communication and is thus the most important element in brain functions, ranging from sensory input to information processing. Changes in synaptic transmission can result in the formation or dissolution of memories, and can equally lead to neurological and psychiatric disorders. The proteins composing the synapse, and their respective functions, are getting increasingly known. One aspect that has become evident in the last years is that most synaptic functions are performed not by single proteins, but by highly organized multi-protein machineries, which interact dynamically to provide responses optimally suited to the needs of the neuronal network. To decipher synaptic and neuronal function, it is essential to understand the organisational, morphological and functional aspects of the molecular nanomachines that operate at the synapse. We discuss these aspects in 11 different chapters, focusing on the structure and function of the active zone, on the functional



anatomy of the synaptic vesicle, and on some of the best known soluble protein complexes from the synapse, including those involved in endocytosis and vesicle recycling.