English title: Change for praktike. Minor Comments to Evagrius Ponticus’ Philosophy of Life. The paper elucidates the evolution in understanding of a life phenomenon, which took place in the writing of the early Christian authors who referred to the heritage of the ancient philosophy trying to define their own position in relation to it. In this perspective the present author discusses the thought of Evagius Ponticus who undertakes some currents typical of Socrates’ concept of life, known from Plato’s dialogues. As (...) Bogaczyk argues, among the common points for both philosophical traditions, the ancient Greek and early Christian, there are, first of all, the understanding of life as change and as the exercise in accepting this change and mortality it inevitably implies. That is only the dialectics of life and death, or hope and pessimism, which makes the phenomenon of life accessible to us, and its concept possible to be grasped. Thus, this dialectics can be applied either in contemporary currents of philosophy of life or in psychological and medical approach towards the problem of depression. (shrink)

The article is a detailed analysis of a fragment of the Phaedrus, where Plato presents his understanding of ideas, their object, their mode of existence, and their cognition . The author attempts to read the fragment in a way that is faithful to the text itself. Her goal is not to confront it with a series of interpretations, and she makes limited use of other dialogues. The purpose of the analysis is primarily to interpret the mythological Socratic language, to consider (...) terminology, to explain concepts , and to attempt to understand the famous ousia ontos ousa. (shrink)

Hermes Andreas Kick, Günter Dietz (Hg.): Frieden als Balance in Psychotherapie und politischem Handlungsraum. Prozessdynamische Perspektiven, Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 2013.