Early Hellenic Anticipations of Logocentrism and Homocentrism

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In this article, the intention of the authors is to show that hints of logocentric and homocentric views of the world, as the foundations of the modern civil era, despite the structural obstacles in their concepts, can be found in the works of the first Hellenic thinkers, and particular attention will be paid to the preserved fragments of the Pre-Socratics who are of interest for this research. The authors identified that indications of such approaches may be found in Pythagoreans, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus. Still, the early Greek philosopher who most obviously anticipated the letter homocentric views was Alcmaeon of Croton. His opinion that the man is different from other animals because he alone has understanding, while other animals have sensation but do not understand, represents a sign of the statements of numerous subsequent writers that logos abilities may be allocated only to humans and that the man has ontological primacy in regard to the so-called non-human living beings.

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Zeliko Kaluderovic

University of Novi Sad

Author for correspondence.
Email: zeljko.kaludjerovic@ff.uns.ac.rs
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6572-4160

Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ethics, Ethics of Journalism and Bioethics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad University, Novi Sad, Serbia; Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Director of the Center for Bioethics of the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy of Novi SadUniversity of the Garden, Honorary Doctor of the Athens National and Kapodistrian University, Greece

Serbia, Novi Sad

Zorika Kaluderovic-Mijartovic

Афинский национальный университет имени Каподистрии

Email: zmijartovic@philosophy.uoa.gr
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9315-5789

философский факультет на кафедре философии философского факультета, Нови-Садский Университет, г. Нови-Сад, Сербия; магистр, аспирант на кафедре философии философского факультета Афинского Национального и Каподистрийского университета, Греция

Greece, Афины

Orkhan Yashic

Университет Тузлы

Email: orhanjasic@yahoo.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7810-7850

an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina; teacher of courses in ethics, bioethics, history of medieval Philosophy and German Classical Philosophy

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Тузла

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