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As “Enéadas” de Plotino, filósofo que perpetuou o platonismo no Ocidente, finalmente traduzido na íntegra por professores da USP e da Federal da Paraíba.
Article Iamblichus
Adrien Lecerf et Riccardo Chiaradonna, 2019
Iamblichus (ca. 242–ca. 325) was a Syrian Neoplatonist and disciple of Porphyry of Tyre, the editor of Plotinus’ works. One of the three major representatives of early Neoplatonism (the third one being Plotinus himself), he exerted considerable influence among later philosophers belonging to the same tradition, such as Proclus, Damascius, and Simplicius. His work as a Pagan theologian and exegete earned him high praise and made a decisive contribution to the transformation of Plotinian metaphysics into the full-fledged system of the fifth-century school of Athens, at that time the major school of philosophy, along with the one in Alexandria. His harsh critique of Plotinus’ philosophical tenets is linked to his pessimistic outlook on the condition of the human soul, as well as to his advocacy of salvation by ritual means, known as “theurgy”.
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Article de Fabienne Jourdan, Revue de Philosophie Ancienne XXXVII (1), 2019
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Table of Contents:
Research Articles
Zeke Mazur, “A Gnostic Icarus? Traces of the Controversy Between Plotinus and the Gnostics Over a Surprising Source for the Fall of Sophia: The Pseudo-Platonic 2nd Letter”
Irini-Fotini Viltanioti, “Porphyry’s Real Powers in Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus”
Marilena Vlad, “Stepping into the Void: Proclus and Damascius on Approaching the First Principle”
Notice nécrologique for Zeke Mazur, Jean-Marc Narbonne
Book Reviews
‘Pretty much the whole of Education’:1 Virtue and Performance in the Laws – Author: Richard Stalley
A Fourth Way of Reading Plato’s Phaedo – Author: Donka D. Markus
Platonic Theories of Prayer, Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition , written by John Dillon and Andrei Timotin – Author: Harold Tarrant
Die Wurzel allen Übels. Vorstellungen über die Herkunft des Bösen und Schlechten in der Philosophie und Religion des 1.-4. Jahrhunderts. Ratio Religionis Studien III, written by F. Jourdain/R. Hirsch-Luitpold – Author: Matthias Perkams
Gandhi and the Stoics, Modern Experiments on Ancient Values, written by Richard Sorabji – Author: Deepa Majumdar
À la recherche des idées. Platonisme et philosophie hellénistique d’Antiochus à Plotin , written by Mauro Bonazzi – Author: Francis Lacroix
Existence et identité , written by Michel Fattal – Author: Jérôme Laurent
Plotinus, Ennead VI The Enneads of Plotinus with philosophical commentaries, written by Eyjólfur K. Emilsson, Steven K. StrangeJohn M. Dillon and Andrew Smith – Author: Luc Brisson
Aesthetic Themes in Pagan Christian Neoplatonism: from Plotinus to Gregory of Nyssa, written by Daniele Iozzia – Author: Anna Corrias
Olympiodorus, On Plato First Alcibiades 10-28, written by Michael Griffin – Author: Sebastian Gertz
Dans un précédent billet, Luciana Soares signalait la parution d’un recueil d’articles de John Dillon, The Platonic Heritage – Further Studies in the History of Platonism and Early Christianity. Parmi ces articles, l’un concerne plus particulièrement la thématique de ce carnet de recherche, « Monotheism in the Gnostic Tradition », précédemment publié dans Polymnia Athanassiadi and Michael Frede (ed.), Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity, Oxford, 1999, p. 69-79.
Dans cet article, l’auteur s’interroge sur le monothéisme des écrits gnostiques connus pour leur hiérarchie divine complexe, avec un plérôme constitué de nombreuses entités. Il montre, à partir de quelques exemples (Apocryphon de Jean, Allogenes), qu’il existe bien un monothéisme dans les écrits gnostiques. Ce monothéisme doit peu au christianisme, selon notre autre, et il serait même plus radical que le monothéisme juif ou chrétien, avec un Dieu transcendant et impersonnel.
Les dernières lignes sont intéressantes, même si elles concernent moins le thème même de l’article. Il s’interroge en effet sur la contribution éventuelle des gnostiques (et des Oracles chaldaïques) aux idées des platoniciens, voire de Plotin lui-même, pour ce qui concerne la présence d’une triade au niveau de la deuxième divinité ; sauf si Numénius avait déjà préparé un système de ce genre.
Il s’agit d’un article toujours intéressant. Mais il faudrait mettre de côté certaines affirmations qui témoignent que John Dillon ne doit pas beaucoup aimer les gnostiques. Ainsi, il semble considérer l’éventuelle contribution des gnostiques aux idées platoniciennes comme negative (p. 78) : « the alternative, I fear, is to admit that the Gnostics (and Chaldaeans) made this substantive contribution to the later Neoplatonic system, and even to that of Plotinus himself. » Plus haut (p. 74), il parlait des gnostiques : « as very much the magpies of the intellectual world of the second century, garnering features that take their fancy both from the Jewish and Christian scriptures, and from the metaphysics of contemporary Platonism. »
CONTENTS
The riddle of the Timaeus: is Plato sowing clues?
Plotinus, Speusippus and the Platonic Parmenides
The Timaeus in the old Academy
Philip of Opus and the theology of Plato’s Laws
Atomism in the old Academy
Theophrastus’ critique of the old Academy in the Metephysics
The pleasures and perils of soul-gardening
Asomatos: nuances of incorporeality in Philo
Plutarch’s debt to Xenocrates
Plutarch and the inseparable intellect
Plutarch on God: theodicy and cosmogony in the thought of Plutarch
Plutarch’s use of unidentified quotations
The social role of the philosopher in Athens in the 2nd century CE: some remarks
Pedantry and pedestrianism? Some reflections on the middle Platonic commentary tradition
Monotheism in the Gnostic tradition
An unknown Platonist on God
Holy and not so holy: on the interpretation of late Antique biography
Plotinus on whether the stars are causes
lamblichus’ Noera Theoria of Aristotle’s categories
lamblichus’ identification of the subject-matters of the Hypotheses
lamblichus on the personal daemon
The theology of Julian’s Hymn to King Helios
A case-study in commentary: the neoplatonic exegesis of the Prooimia od Plato’s Dialogues
Damascius on procession and return
‘The eye of the soul’: the doctrine of the higher consciousness in the neoplatonic and sufic traditions
Index
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Includes bibliographical references and index.