Train of Thought about Treatment of High Blood Pressure with Integrative Traditional and Western Medicine

Based on the differ—ent theories,TCM andWestern medicine(WM)have their owndifferent understandingsabout the pathogenesisand treatment of highblood pressure(HBP).In TCM the balancesbetween blood-qi,vis—cera—bowel, and yin—yang are all highly

The Italic School in Astronomy： From Pythagoras to Archimedes

It is argued that it has not yet been able to value the historical, philosophical and epistemological travail, represented by the filth and fourth centuries BC of the ancient Greek world, which preceded the highest scientific heritage, represented by the so-called golden age of Euclid, Archimedes and Apollonius, Ⅲ-Ⅱ century BC. Well, it is believed that with our complex concept of tradition of thought within which we insert not only epistemological concepts but also philosophical principles, historical and social frameworks, in stasis or in strong movement, processed by us, it is possible better interpret that happy moment of scientific constructions of the third and second century BC, as a result of the valorization of the deep travail and serious battle that preceded it between the fourth and fifth century BC. It is investigated in particular in our paper the development of astronomical thought between the fifth and fourth centuries BC, in the ancient Greek thought, and at last a particular presumed criticism by Archimedes in his Sandreckoner to Aristarchus.

The Traditions of Thought Between Progress and Reaction. Cicero: An Interpreter and a Latin Creator of the Aristotelian Platonic Tradition of Thought

Farington’s interpretation of the philosophies of Plato and Cicero as reactionary philosophies is discussed.In the light of our interpretative category,such as that of Traditions of Thought,understood as complex rational,historical constructions,within which metaphysical and epistemological principles are mediated with socio-economic-political-cultural conflicts,all denominated as ideologies,instead it is believed that scientific theories are not actually progressive or regressive,but rather the ideologies,when they interpret the concepts of scientific fact,scientific theory and,more strongly,that of philosophy,within general conceptions of the world.In the light of our interpretative category,they thus appear more than regressive philosophers instead of regressive ideologues,if we consider that the philosopher moves within the narrower fields of the so-called metaphysics and epistemology.Cicero also appears to be the great Latin creator of a way of understanding philosophy and its history with the dominant triad Socrates-Plato-Aristotele in it.All this must be considered within my broader historical-philosophical-epistemological elaboration,enclosed in my published books and papers,cited in references.

Algebra or Grammar of the To Be(Das Sein,Τὸεἶναι)?Peano and Heidegger

In this article I argue how in the history of philosophy the meaning of the term“to be”was disputed over by two research programmes:the Platonic-Aristotelian one up to Heidegger and the Pythagorean-Parmenidean-Democritean one through Hobbes and Boole up to Peano.I call the first of“grammatical”type,the other of“linguistic algebraic”type.As in the grammatical classifications,in the former,formal or linguistic distinctions are mistaken for distinctions of logical type,or even of real or,as it is said,metaphysical type;hence its empty philosophical verbalism.In the latter,the term“to be”is taken in its merely linguistic meaning to build the science of reality,which should be known starting from rational principles,the“ideas”,as Democritus called them,through an adequate language.