Platonic Texts and Translations

The Prometheus Trust is now publishing a new series of essential late Platonic texts and translations – the fruit of exceptional scholarship from the last 50 years. Each of these volumes is a revised version of its original, and presents parallel Greek texts and English translations, together with extensive notes and indices. The series is in hardback binding.

(Text by the editors)

Link

https://www.brepolsonline.net/series/phr-eb

From the Alien to the Alone

A Study of Soul in Plotinus

Gary M. Gutler, Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2022

Plotinus is often accused of writing haphazardly, with little concern for the integral unity of a treatise. By analyzing each treatise as a whole, From the Alien to the Alone finds much evidence that he constructed them skillfully, with the parts working together in subtle ways. This insight was also key in translating several central passages by considering the flow of the argument as a whole to shed light on the difficulties in these passages as well as reveal the structure often latent in particular treatise. The volume also serves to clarify Plotinus’ rich use of images. Commentators, for instance, tend to take the images of light and warmth to explain the relation of soul and body as in conflict, with light casting out warmth. A close look at the text, however, reveals that Plotinus uses each image to correct the limitations of the other. Thus, since the soul is incorporeal, it is actually more transcendent than light and as activating the body is more completely present than warmth. Similarly, recent commentators are quick to take the related impassibility of the soul as implying a Cartesian gap between body and soul. The problem Plotinus faces, however, is that his description of the soul’s pervasive presence in the body jeopardizes its impassibility as in the intelligible. His effort then is actually to introduce a gap that preserves the soul’s nature, rather than overcome a gap that would make the very existence of the body problematic.

While this work confirms much recent scholarly consensus on Plotinus, many of Gurtler’s interpretations and general conclusions give constructive challenges to some existing modes of understanding Plotinus’ thought. The arguments and their textual evidence, with the accompanying Greek, provide the reader with direct evidence for testing these conclusions as well as appreciating the nature of Plotinus’ philosophizing.

Link

https://www.cuapress.org/9780813234519/from-the-alien-to-the-alone/

 Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Intellect and the Soul in Alexandrian Neoplatonism

 

Description

“Between Athens & Alexandria. Platonism, 3rd-7th c. CE” studies the relationship between the Neoplatonic Schools of Athens and Alexandria, with a special focus on later Neoplatonic developments on, and criticisms to, Plotinus. The project is hosted by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (IMS-FORTH), based in Rethymno, Crete, in collaboration with the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies (ACHS) of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It is supported by the A. S. Onassis Foundation.

The workshop will take place in a hybrid format, in the Conference Room (Kalos Ontas) of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, and via Zoom.

For attending via Zoom, registration is required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdemprDMoGdOL5b8UdSZVEwQSFxaKUNvt

(Text from the organizers)

Programme

Monday 20th June

9:30 Welcome

Gelina Harlaftis (IMS-FORTH Director & University of Crete), Mark Kyriakos (ΒΑΑCHS), Irini-Fotini Viltanioti (University of Crete & IMS-FORTH)

10:00-11:30 Paul Kalligas (Director of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi & National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) “Plotinus on Bringing Order to the Universe.” Chair: Konstantinos Spanoudakis (Vice Rector, University of Crete)

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:30 Dimitrios Vasilakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) “Towards a Dialectical Relation Between Form and Content: Reading Plotinus’ Ennead III 5 via the Phaedrus?” Chair: Zacharoula Petraki (University of Crete)

13:30-15:30 Lunch

15:30-17:00 Irini-Fotini Viltanioti (University of Crete & IMS-FORTH) “Plotinus on Plato’s Timaeus 90 a.” Chair: Mark Edwards (University of Oxford)

17.30 Guided Tour of the Archaeological Museum of Rethymno

20:00 Dinner

Tuesday 21st June

10:00-11.30 Pantelis Golitsis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) “From Alexandria to Athens: What Damascius Learned from Ammonius.” Chair: Melina Tamiolaki (University of Crete & IMS-FORTH)

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:30 Mark Edwards (University of Oxford) “Nous in Philoponus.” Chair: Paul Kalligas (Director of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi & National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

14:00 Lunch (at one’s own expense)

Contact

Irini-Fotini Viltanioti (University of Crete & IMS-FORTH)

Mark Kyriakos (BA-ACHS)

Aya Samir (BA-ACHS)

viltanioti@uoc.gr

Link

http://athens-alexandria.ims.forth.gr/?p=1051

L’Antiquité Classique

Louvain-la-Neuve: Association L’Antiquité Classique

Description

L’Antiquité Classique est une revue annuelle, de renommée internationale, spécialisée dans le domaine de l’Antiquité grecque et romaine (de la période préhellénique jusqu’à l’Antiquité tardive ou aux aspects de la Renaissance liés aux études antiques). Elle est éditée et diffusée par l’asbl L’Antiquité Classique avec, entre autres, un soutien financier de la Fondation universitaire et du Fonds de la Recherche scientifique – FNRS. La revue publie dans les langues usuelles de la recherche (anglais, français, allemand, italien, espagnol…) des contributions originales, soumises préalablement à l’avis d’un Comité de lecture (avec experts internationaux) : articles accompagnés d’un résumé bilingue, mélanges, varia (courts articles et notes de lecture), chroniques (review articles synthétisant sur un thème les recherches actuelles) et des recensions critiques de 300 à 400 monographies parues récemment et représentatives de la production annuelle de la discipline. Cette politique scientifique et ce concept éditorial, voulus dès 1932 par les fondateurs (tous les grands savants belges de l’époque), reçurent un accueil favorable et immédiat des plus grandes institutions internationales. L’Antiquité Classique regroupe de manière statutaire les Universités belges autour des « sciences de l’Antiquité » et est présente dans toutes les bibliothèques de référence de la discipline.

Éditrice d’Administration 

Mme Ghislaine MOUCHARTE (UCLouvain)

La revue accepte de publier des dossiers thématiques. 

La revue accepte de recevoir des propositions de comptes rendus d’ouvrages. 

Link

http://www.antiquiteclassique.be/

Goethe-Frankfurt Universität

Platonismus und Esoterik in der französischen Renaissance

Beschreibung und Organization

Die Kultur der Renaissance ist maßgeblich durch die Rezeption der griechisch-römischen Antike geprägt; dazu gehören nicht zuletzt der Platonismus und die damit verbundenen Strömungen einer religiös-philosophischen Esoterik. Spezialisten aus Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien, Schweden und Spanien kommen in Frankfurt zusammen, um über philosophie-, literatur- und kunstgeschichtliche Aspekte der Thematik zu diskutieren. Die Veranstaltung ist öffentlich und richtet sich nicht nur an Wissenschaftler, sondern auch ein kulturinteressiertes Publikum mit Interesse am Thema.

Programm

Mittwoch, 20. 7. 2022

09h15 – Eröffnung durch Prof. Dr. Michael Huth, Vizepräsident der Goethe-Universität
09h30 – Fosca Mariani Zini, Lille:
„Marguerite de Navarre et son cercle: le platonisme comme forme de vie“
10h15 – Sophie Yvert-Hamon, Stockholm:
„Argumenter pour le salut des âmes. Philippe Duplessis-Mornay et l’héritage platonicien“

Kaffeepause

11h30 – Thomas Leinkauf, Münster:
„Der philosophische Hintergrund der Magie im 16. Jahrhundert“
12h00 – Chiara Tommasi, Pisa:
„I sapienti venuti dall’Oriente in alcuni testi del tardo Rinascimento francese“

Mittagspause

14h30 – Esteban Law, Berlin:
„Die Hermetica Philosophica in der französischen Renaissance“
15h15 – Maria Muccillo, Roma:
„Prima e dopo Genebrard: la figura e la cronologia di Ermetetra Agostino Steuco e Patrizi“

Kaffeepause

16h30 – Stéphane Toussaint, Paris:
Le démon de Socrate dans la Renaissance française“
17h00 – Sixtine Desmoulins, Toulouse:
„La démonologie de Psellos dans la Renaissance française“
17h45 – Helmut Seng, Frankfurt/M.:
„Die Chaldaeischen Orakel in der französischen Renaissance“

Donnerstag, 21. Juli 2022

09h30 – Marina Seretti, Bordeaux:
„La galerie de Psyché à Ecouen : une oeuvre de verre éclairée par la philosophie de l’amour de Marsile Ficin“
10h15 – Luisa Capodieci Bayard, Paris:
„L’idea e il suo riflesso. Misteri pitagorici e platonici nelle favole acquatiche di Pontus de Tyard per il castello di Anet“

Kaffeepause

11h30 – Claudio Moreschini, Pisa:
„Guy Lefèvre de la Boderie traduttore di Francesco Zorzi“
12h15 – Luisa Lesage Gárriga, Córdoba:
„Nostradamus et la Prisca Theologia“

Mittagspause

14h30 – Marie-Luce Demonet, Tours:
„La mise en fiction de l’ésotérisme chez Rabelais“
15h15 – Michel Tardieu, Joigny:
„L’oracle de dive Bouteille. Aspects ésotériques et dialectiques des ἐκφράσεις“

Schlussworte

Kontakt

helmut.seng@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Link

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-128302

Études Platoniciennes

Le retour de l’âme

Paris: Les Belles Lettres

Description

Le numéro XVII des Études Platoniciennes est consacré au thème du retour de l’âme dans la tradition platonicienne. Conformément à ses statuts, la rédaction des Études Platoniciennes a confié à un éditeur le soin de coordonner le dossier. Nous adressons nos remerciements à Camille Guigon et Pauline Rates qui ont mené à bien ce travail.

Arnaud Macé a dirigé le Bulletin platonicien, nous lui exprimons notre gratitude.

Le secrétariat éditorial a été assuré par Pauline Sabrier et Olivier Renaut.

(Texte des éditeurs)

Table de matières

Camille Guigon et Pauline Rates. Introduction.
Mauro Bonazzi. Le platonisme : une philosophie de l’exil ?
Fabienne Jourdan. Le retour de l’âme à son lieu d’origine après la mort et sa descente ici-bas selon Numénius.
Marco Zambon. Retour de l’âme et salut de l’homme chez Origène d’Alexandrie [Texte intégral]. 
Luc Brisson. Descente et retour de l’âme chez Plotin et chez Porphyre [Texte intégral]. 
Thomas Vidart. The reactivation of the printed marks coming from the intelligible realities according to Plotinus. 
Christian Girard. L’unité de l’âme, au péril de l’homme ? [Texte intégral]. 
Daniela Patrizia Taormina. Jamblique. L’âme et ses parcours d’élévation [Texte intégral]. 
Pauline Rates. Métamorphoses du thème du retour de l’âme du De Regressu de Porphyre au livre X du De civitate Dei [Texte intégral]. 
Anne-Claire Lozier. À la recherche d’un bonheur éternel : Augustin face au retour sempiternel et à la métempsychose (Cité de Dieu XII, 21) [Texte intégral]. 
Carlos Steel. Le retour de l’âme à l’intellect. Lectures neo-platoniciennes du De Anima III 4-5 d’Aristote [Texte intégral]. 
John Dillon. L’ivresse de l’intellect : quelques réflexions au sujet du récit plotinien de l’Ascension [Texte intégral]. 
La revue accepte de publier des dossiers thématiques. 
La revue accepte de recevoir des propositions de comptes rendus d’ouvrages.
Link
Onassis Foundation

Entre Athènes & Alexandrie. Platonisme(s)

 

Description

« Entre Athènes & Alexandrie. Platonisme(s), 3e-7e s. de n.è. » étudie la relation entre les écoles néoplatoniciennes d’Athènes et d’Alexandrie ainsi que les origines alexandrines du néoplatonisme, notamment la manière dont les doctrines de Plotin sont abordées par les philosophes néoplatoniciens plus tardifs. Le projet est soutenu par la Fondation A. S. Onassis et accueilli par l’Institut d’études méditerranéennes Fondation de la technologie et de la recherche Hellas (IMS-FORTH) en collaboration avec le Centre Alexandrin d’études hellénistiques (ACHS) de la Bibliothèque Alexandrina.

Programme

« Intellect Sober, Intellect Drunk : Some Reflections on the Plotinian Ascent Narrative », John Dillon

La conférence aura lieu le mardi 22 mars à 19h (heure d’Athènes & Alexandrie), 18h (heure de Paris), 17h (heure de Londres) sur la plateforme ZOOM.

Contact

Irini-Fotini Viltanioti

violanoti@uoc.gr

(Texte des organisateurs)

Lien

http://athens-alexandria.ims.forth.gr/

Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa 2022

FSA Roma Annual Conference 2022

Philosophy, Theology, Aestetics, Religion from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Description and organization

7th annual conference of the Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa 2022: Renaissance, Ancient, Medieval and Modern Patterns. Philosophy, Theology, Aestetics, Religion from Antiquity to the Renaissance. From 27th to 31st May 2022.

FSA Gateano Massa is a Network whose purpose is to provide an intellectual setting where scholars of philosophy, theology, religion and classics gather to share and compare their perspectives on the meaning and significance of their collective research

Programme

May 27 Friday: Foro di Alti Studi Gaetano Massa

16h: Introduction – Robert M. Berchman [FSA/Roma]. In Memoria. Robert Lima [1935-2022]. Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARG]; Jose Maria Zamora [Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ESP]. John D. Turner [1937-2021]. Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS/LEM, France]; Robert M. Berchman [FSA/Roma].

16h30: Presentation of FSA Academic Fellows: Presenters. Giuseppe Muscolino [Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italia] and Michele Olzi [Universita degli Studi dell’Insubria Varese e Como, Italia]. Michele Abbate, [Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italia]; Clelia Attanasio [University of Cambridge, UK], Alvaro Campillo Bo [University College Dublin, IRL], Dylan Burns [University of Amsterdam, NL]; Ivana Costa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina], Marisa Divenosa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina], Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK],Giada Fiorese [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia], Odile Gilon, [Centre de Recherche en Philosophie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BLG], Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, [Florida State University, USA], Christian Hengstermann [Universitaet Wuppertal, BRD]; Christoph Horn, [Universitaet Bonn, BRD], Anna Mamodoro, [Durham University and University of Oxford, UK], Gareth Polmeer [Royal College of Art, UK]; Rafaella Palmisano [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria Varese e Como, Italia], Daniel Regnier [St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada], Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS/LEM, France], Fabrizio Sciacca [Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italia], Erasmo Silvio Storace [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia], Daniella Taormina [Universita degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’] Matthew Vanderkwaak [University College Dublin, IRL], Giuseppe Vitale [Universtity College Dublin, IRL/University of Cologne, BRD], Valentina Zaffino [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano].

16h50: Presentation of FSA Arts Fellows: Presenter. Alessandro Sbordoni, [Associazione Nuova Consonanza/Roma, Italia], Roberto Fabbriciani [Associazione Nuova Consonanza/Roma, Italia],

RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

17h00-19h00: Light and Vision in Marsilio Ficino Moderator Douglas Hedley [University of Cambridge, UK] « Ficino on the Metaphysics of the Diaphanous » Anna Corrias [University of Cambridge, UK]] “Ficino on Vision in the Commentary on Plotinus’ Enneads » Stephen Gersh, [University of Notre Dame, USA] « Demiurgy and Light in Ficino » Denis Robichaud [University of Notre Dame, USA] “Ficino’s De Sole and his Metaphysics of Light” Valentina Zaffino [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano]

19h00: Discussion

May 28 Saturday: Foro di Alti Studi Riccardo Campa

ANCIENT AND RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

9h00-11h00: Mathematics: Mapping Epistemologies. Moderator Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA] “Applying Number to the Continuum” Anna Marmodoro [Durham University and University of Oxford, UK] “Crantor and the Epistemological and Mathematical Tale of the Old Academy” Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA] “Arithmos and Episteme: A ‘Neopythagorean’ Epistemology of Mathematics” Robert M. Berchman [FSA/Roma].

9h45: Discussion “Plotinus and Frege on Numbers” Christoph Horn, [Universitaet Bonn, BRD] « Aspects of Mathematics in Iamblichus », Daniela Taormina [Universita degli Studi di Roma ’Tor Vergata’ Italia]

10h30: Discussion

11h00-1230: Aesthetics of the Self: Moderator Paolo Bellini [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia] « Towards an Agathological Self: Aesthetics of the Self in the light of Plato and Plotinus » Salvatore Lavecchia [Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italia], Henosis in Plotinus and Proclus: Beyond the Self (-identity) Michele Abbate [Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italia] « Selfhood Unbound: Sensus in Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella » Guido Giglioni [Universita di Macerata, Italia]

12h30: Discussion 1300: Common Lunch: Casa Maria Immacolata

ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

15h00-16h45: Aesthetics of the Self: Moderator Salvatore Lavecchia [Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italia] “”Shadows of Themselves: Plato on Self, Being and Interiority” Eric Perl [Loyola Marymount University, USA]. « Metapsychology and Metaphysics of the Self’ John Hendrix [Roger Williams University, USA] « The Composer’s Imagination: Musical Disposition According to Al-Fârâbî » Daniel Regnier [St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada]

16h45: Discussion

17h15-19h30: Mapping Mind, Language and Intentionality. Moderator Valentina Zaffino, [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano, Italia]. “Proclus’ Metaphysics of Language: Theurgic Intentionality” Jose Manuel Redondo [UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico] “Eriugenia’s de Pradestinatione Liber and the Notion of Primordial Cause” Ezequiel Luduena [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “Richard of St. Victor: The Reception of Denys the Areopagite Through the Translation of Eriugena” Clelia Attanasio [University of Cambridge, UK] « Free-Will and Responsibility: Human Mind in Cudworth’s Treatises » Natalia Strok [Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad Nacional de La Plata/CONICET, Argentina]

19h30: Discussion

May 29 Saturday: Foro di Alti Studi Patrick Atherton

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PATTERNS

9h00-9h45: Nous in the Greek Patres. Moderator: Isidoros Katsos [University of Oxford, UK] “Ethical Intelletualism in Antiquity and the Patristics: The Birth of Original Sin” Ilaria Ramelli [University of Oxford and Durham University, UK]

9h45: Discussion

10h00-11h00:Plotinus’ Role in Shaping Augustine’s Conception of Mind. Moderator Stephen Gersh [University of Notre Dame, USA]. “Mind in the Confessions of Augustine” Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK] “Plotinus in de Trinitate Joseph O’Leary [Sophia University and Nanzan University, JP]

11h00: Discussion

11h30-12h30: Later Platonism and Gnosticism: Moderator: Eric Perl [Loyola Marymount University, USA]. “Toucher Dieu : la critique antignostique de Plotin (Enn. 3.2–3 [47–48] ” Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS-LEM, France] “Plotinus ‘On Providence’ “ Another Engagement with the ‘Tripartite Tractate” (NHC I,5)” Dylan Burns [University of Amsterdam, Netherlands]

12h30: Discussion Lunch/Open MEDIEVAL PATTERNS

14h00-16h00:Thinking Causes: Fluxus: Moderator Dragos Calma [University College Dublin, IRL] “Influentia: A Way of Questioning Causes in Roger Bacon’s Questiones supra Librum de causis” Odile Gilon [Centre de Recherche en Philosophie, Université Libre de Bruxelles] “Flow and Creation in Albert the Great’s De causis et processu universitatis” Maria Evelina Malgieri [University College Dublin, IRL] “Anima Nobilis in Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas and Giles of Rome” Matthew Vanderkwaak [University College Dublin, IRL] 1530: Discussion

16h00 -17h30: Thinking Causes: Fluxus: Moderator: Daniel Regnier [St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada] “Bonum est unuscuiusque rei essentia: Berthold of Moosburg’s Radical Agathology” Giuseppe Vitale [Universtity College Dublin, IRL/University of Cologne, BRD] « A Renaissance Reception of Proclus’ Commentary in Euclid: Alessandro Piccolomini and the New Foundations of Mechanics » Alvaro Campillo Bos [University College Dublin, IRL]

17h30: Discussion

21h00: Concerto/Sala Casella/Accademia Filarmonica Romana/ Via Flamina 118, Roma. “Improvisationi: Musica e Cultura” Alessandro Sbordoni, [Associazione Nuova Consonanza/Roma] “Improvizationi Acoustici” Roberto Fabbriciani e Alessandro Sbordoni, [Associazione Nuova Consonanza/Roma]

May 30 Monday: Foro di Alti Studi John D. Turner

ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

9h00-10h30: Roman Religions: Moderator Moderator Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA] “I culti orientali a Roma in eta imperiale” Luciano Albenese [Universita degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, Italia], “Incontro e assimilazione (systasis) con Helios nei papiri magici. Alcune osservazioni» (Meeting, petitioning, reaching (systasis) God Helios in the Magical Papyri. Some Remarks) Giuseppe Muscolino [Universita degli Studi di Catania [Italia], “Rules for Reading and ‘Becoming Like God’ in the Anonymous Prolegomena to Plato’s Philosophy” Jose Maria Zamora [Univerdidad Autonoma de Madrid, ESP]

10h30: Discussion

11h00-13h00: Rethinking Cusanus. Moderator Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] « The Liber de causis in De Coniecturis of Nicholas of Cusa: The Concept of reditio completa » Victoria Arroche [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] « Conjectural Self-Knowledge » in the De Coniecturis of Nicholas of Cusa » Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “The Power of Imagination in Nicholas of Cusa’s Ars coniecturalis” Jose Gonzales Rios, [Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET, Argentina] 1230: Discussion Lunch/Open RENAISSANCE, MODERN AND ANCIENT PATTERNS

14h00-16h00: Varieties of English Platonism. Moderator Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK] “The Platonic Soteriology of Shakespeare’s Late Plays”, Christian Hengstermann [Universitaet Wuppertal, BRD] “Between Florence and Tuebingen: The Neglected Historiographical Significance of the Cambridge Platonists”, Douglas Hedley [Clare College, Cambridge, UK] ”Frames of inner Vision: Kathleen Raine and Philip Sherrard as Contemporary Cambridge Platonists” Gareth Polmeer [Royal College of Art, UK)

15h30: Discussion

16h00-18h00: Justice and Fictions [Co-Sponsored by the International Society for Socratic Studies] Moderator: Claudia Marsico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] « The Primitive Polis, Facts and Fictions » Ivana Costa [Universidad de Bueonos Aires, Argentina]. “Antisthenes, the Cyclops, and the Healthy Polis in Republic, II” Claudia Marsico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina] “Justice and Piety in Plato’s Euthyphro” Marisa Divenosa [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina]

17h30: Discussion

18h00-19h30: Drama and Fictions [Co-Sponsored by the International Society for Socratic Studies]: Moderator Denis Robichaud [University of Notre Dame, USA] “Plato’s Laches as a Philosophical Drama. Similarities between the Laches and the Charmides. » Inbal Cohen-Taber [St. Mary’s College/Maryland, USA] “Socrates’ Burial and Euclides” Menahem Luz, [University of Haifa, Israel]

19h30: Discussion

21h00: Banquetto/Trattoria da Aldone e Giacomino, Via Enio 55, Roma

May 31 Tuesday: Foro di Alti Studi Jacob Neusner

ANCIENT, RENAISSANCE, AND MODERN PATTERNS

9h30-10h30: Anabaseis and Katabaseis in Jung’s Psychology: Moderator: Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNR-LEM, France] « Theurgy in Jung and Neoplatonism: Comparative Phenomenology. » Bruce MacLennan [University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA] “Time and the Soul” Alan Cardew, [University of Essex, UK]

10h30: Discussion

11h00-13h30: “Knowledge: Cultural and Political Myths in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Moderator Erasmo Silvio Storace [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia], “Power, and Salvation in the Post-Modern Age” Paolo Bellini [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia] “Civilizational Mythology” Fabrizio Sciacca [Università degli Studi di Catania, Italia] “Body: Between Politics and Mythopoiesis” Raffaella Palmisano [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria Varese e Como, Italia] « Simulacra of Totality: Filling the post-modern Void through Cloakroom Communities » Giada Fiorese [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia] “Politics of Sexuality: Contemporary Perspectives on Sex, Power, and Desire” Michele Olzi [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia].

13h30: Discussion

14h00: Business Meeting: Presenters Michele Olzi [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia]; Robert M. Berchman [FSA Roma]; Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina]; Jose Maria Zamora [Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ESP]. Proceedings: FSA Publications Report: FSA/Mimesis; FSA/Wipf&Stock FSA Conferences Report: Roma, Buenos Aires, Madrid FSA Legal and Financial Report: Institute at Caesars Head Ltd. Salem, SC/USA.

Contact

Robert Berchman – berchmanrob@earthlink.net

Eleonora Zeper – eleonora.zeper@gmail.com

Complete programm on the FSA’s Facebook page @FSAGaetanoMassa

Link

https://fsagaetanomassa.wordpress.com/

L’Imperatore Giuliano

Realtà storica e rappresentazione

Marcone, Arnaldo. Milano: Mondadori, 2015.

Descrizione

Questo volume raccoglie quindici contributi di studiosi con competenze diverse dedicati a una riconsiderazione critica del regno dell’imperatore Giuliano, una figura decisiva per la comprensione della Tarda Antichità. A essere oggetto di studio sono il suo pensiero filosofico, le caratteristiche della sua cultura, i fondamenti intellettuali, oltre che religiosi, che sono alla base del suo tentativo di reintroduzione del paganesimo come religione di Stato romana. Si indaga inoltre il carattere della sua strategia politica e della sua ricerca di consenso. Interesse trova anche l’iconografia di Giuliano così come spazio ha lo studio della sua ricezione nella storiografia bizantina, nella letteratura siriaca e nel pensiero politico contemporaneo. Il quadro complessivo del regno di Giuliano che scaturisce dai saggi qui raccolti appare ricco di novità rispetto a quello consolidato nella storiografia recente.

(Testo degli editori)

Link

https://www.mondadorieducation.it/catalogo/limperatore-giuliano-0046366/ 

Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa 2022

Renaissance, Ancient and Medieval Patterns

Modern and Postmodern Traces

Programme

May 27
Foro di Alti Studi <Gaetano Massa>

Auditorium

1600: Introduction: Robert M. Berchman [FSA/Roma]; Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARG]; Jose Maria Zamora [Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ESP]; Michele Olzi [Universita degli Studi dell’Insubria Varese e Como, Italia].

1615: Presentation of FSA Academic Fellows: Giuseppe Muscolino [Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italia] Michele Abbate, [Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italia];Alvaro Campillo Bo [University College Dublin, IRL], Dylan Burns [University of Amsterdam, Netherlands]; Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK], Giada Fiorese [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia], Odile Gilon, [Centre de Recherche en Philosophie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BLG], Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, [Florida State University, USA], Ryan Haecker, [University of Cambridge, UK], Christian Hengstermann [University of Muenster, BRD],Christoph Horn, [Universitaet Bonn, BRD], Anna Mamodoro, [Durham University and University of Oxford, UK], Dimitri Nikulin, [New School/NY, USA], Mark Nyvlt [Dominican University College, Ottawa, Canada], Raffaella Palmisano [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria Varese e Como, Italia], Daniel Regnier [St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada], Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS/LEM, France]; Fabrizio Sciacca [Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italia], Daniella Taormina [Universita degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’] Matthew Vanderkwaak [University College Dublin, IRL], Valentina Zaffino [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano].

1645: Introduction of FSA Associate Societies: Salvatore Lavecchia [Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italia], Canadian Aristotelian Society [CAS] presented by Mark Nyvlt [Dominican University College, Ottawa, Ontario Canada]

RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

1700-1900: Light and Vision in Marsilio Ficino Moderator Douglas Hedley [University of Cambridge, UK] « Ficino on the Metaphysics of the Diaphanous » Anna Corrias [University of Toronto, Canada]
“Ficino on Vision in the Commentary on Plotinus’ Enneads » Stephen Gersh, [University of Notre Dame, USA], « Demiurgy and Light in Ficino » Denis Robichaud [University of Notre Dame, USA],

“Ficino’s De Sole and his Metaphysics of Light” Valentina Zaffino [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano].

Cocktails

May 28
Foro di Alti Studi <Riccardo Campa>

Auditorium 2

ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PATTERNS

900-1130: Aesthetics of the Self: Moderator Paolo Bellini [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia]
« Towards an Agathological Self: Aesthetics of the Self in the light of Plato and Plotinus » Salvatore Lavecchia [Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italia],

Henosis in Plotinus and Proclus: Beyond the Self (-identity) Michele Abbate [Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italia]
« Metapsychology and Metaphysics of the Self’ John Hendrix [Roger Williams University, USA]
Kevin Corrigan [Emory University, USA]

« Selfhood Unbound: Sensus in Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella » Guido Giglioni [Universita di Macerata, Italia]

1100: Discussion

Coffee Break

1130-1300: Mathematics: Mapping Epistemologies. Moderator Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA]
“Can the Unlimited be a Fundamental Element of Reality?” Anna Marmodoro [Durham University and University of Oxford, UK]

“Arithmos and Episteme: A ‘Neopythagorean’ Epistemology of Mathematics” Robert Berchman [FSA/Roma]. “Plotinus and Frege on Numbers” Christoph Horn, [Universitaet Bonn, BRD]

« On Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers with Reference to Aristotle and Plotinus, Dmitri Nikulin [The New School for Social Research, USA]
« Number as Power and Actuality in Plotinus, Svetla Slaveva-Griffin [Florida State University, USA]
« Aspects of Mathematics in Iamblichus », Daniela Taormina [Universita degli Studi di Roma ’Tor Vergata’ Italia]

1245: Discussion

1300: Lunch: Casa Maria Immacolata

1500-1630: Cusanus. Moderator Kevin Corrigan [Emory University, USA] Claudia D’Amico [Universidad de Buenos Aires]
Victoria Arroche Universidad de Buenos Aires]
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1630: Discussion

1700-1900: Mapping Intellect, Intentionality and Free-Will: Valentina Zaffino, [Pontifica Universita Lateranese, Citta del Vaticano].

“Proclus on Intellect” Eric Perl [Loyola Marymount University, USA].
Jose Manuel Redondo [UNAM, Mexico]
Ezequiel Luduena [Universidad de Buenos Aires]
« Free-Will and Responsibility: Human Mind in Cudworth’s Treatises » Natalia Strok [Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad Nacional de La Plata/CONICET, Argentina]

1845: Discussion

May 29
Foro di Alti Studi <Patrick Atherton>

Auditorium

900-1045: Platonic Reflections in Cambridge: Moderator Denis Robichaud [University of Notre Dame, USA] Douglas Hedley [University of Cambridge, UK],
Adrian Mihai [University of Cambridge, UK],
James Bryson [University of Cambridge, UK]

1045: Discussion

1100-1300: Thinking Causes: Fluxus: Moderator Dragos Calma [University College Dublin, IRL] “Influentia: a Way of Questioning Causes in Roger Bacon’s Questiones supra Librum de causis” Odile Gilon [Centre de Recherche en Philosophie, Université Libre de Bruxelles]
“Flow and Creation in Albert the Great’s De causis et processu universitatis” Maria Evelina Malgieri [University College Dublin, IRL]
“Anima Nobilis in Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas and Giles of Rome” Matthew Vanderkwaak [University College Dublin, IRL]
« A Renaissance Reception of Proclus’ Commentary in Euclid: Alessandro Piccolomini and the New Foundations of Mechanics » Alvaro Campillo Bos [University College Dublin, IRL]

1300: Discussion:

Lunch/Open

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EARLY MODERN AND MEDIEVAL PATTERNS

LATER ANCIENT PATTERNS

1500-1600: Nous in the Greek Patres. Moderator Isidoros Katsos [Hebrew University and University of Cambridge, UK]
“Ethical Intelletualism in Antiquity and the Patristics: The Birth of Original Sin” Ilaria Ramelli [University of Oxford and Durham University, UK]

1545: Discussion

1600-1745: Nous in the Greek Patres: Moderator Moderator Ilaria Ramelli [University of Oxford and Durham University, UK]
“God’ s Practical Reasoning in Origen’s Commentary on Genesis and De Principiis” Isidoros Katsos [University of Cambridge, UK],

“Christ as Wisdom, Word and Truth: Divine Intellect in Origen’s Reading of the Gospel of John” Christian Hengstermann [University of Muenster, BRD].
Daniel Tolan [University of Cambridge, UK],

1730: Discussion

Coffee Break

1800-1930: Plotinus’ Role in Shaping Augustine’s Conception of Mind. Moderator Stephen Gersh [University of Notre Dame, USA].

“Mind in the Confessions of Augustine” Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK]

 

“Plotinus in de Trinitate” Joseph O’Leary [Sophia University and Nanzan University, JP] 1915: Discussion
2030: Banquetto
May 30

Foro di Alti Studi <John D. Turner> Auditorium

ANCIENT PATTERNS

900-1045: Roman Religions: Moderator Alan Cardew, [University of Essex, UK]
« I culti orientali a Roma in età imperiale « Luciano Albanese [Universita degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, Italia],
“Incontro e assimilazione (systasis) con Helios nei papiri magici. Alcune osservazioni» (Meeting, petitioning, reaching (systasis) God Helios in the Magical Papyri. Some Remarks) Giuseppe Muscolino [Universita degli Studi di Catania [Italia],
Jose Maria Zamora [Univerdidad Autonoma de Madrid, ESP],

1030: Discussion

1045-1300: The Relationship Between the Divine and the Natural World in Theurgy and Neoplatonic Religion: Moderator Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS – LEM, France];
“Varieties of Mystical Experience in Plotinus” John Bussanich [University of New Mexico, USA]
“The Ecocentric nature of Divination in Theurgy and Tibetan Religious Traditions” Crystal Addey [University College Cork, Ireland] and Dawn Collins [University of Wales Trinity St. David, UK]

“Water in Iamblichus’ Theory of Divination” Andreea-Maria Lemnaru-Carrez [Paris-Sorbonne IV, France] 1245: Discussion

Lunch/Open

ANCIENT AND MODERN PATTERNS

1430-1615: Gnosticism and Other Platonisms: Moderator Mark Edwards [University of Oxford, UK]
“Plotinus ‘On Providence’ (Enn. 3.2–3 [47–48]): Another Engagement with the ‘Tripartite Tractate’ (NHC I,5)”

Dylan Burns [University of Amsterdam, Netherlands]
“Toucher Dieu : la critique antignostique de Plotin” Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete [CNRS-LEM, France]
Kevin Corrigan, [Emory University, USA]

1600: Discussion

1615-1730: Anabaseis and Katabaseis in Jung’s Psychology: Moderator Crystal Addey [University College Cork, IRL].
« Jung’s Untergang and Übergang” Bruce MacLennan [University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA]
“Time and the Soul” Alan Cardew, [University of Essex, UK]

1715: Discussion

Coffee Break

 

1730-1915: Musical Tropes: Moderator Stephen Gersh [University of Notre Dame, USA]

“Aristexonos” Mark Nyvlt [Dominican University College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada]

« The Composer’s Imagination: Musical Disposition according to Al-Fârâbî » Daniel Regnier [St. Thomas More

College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada]

“From Renaissance Conceptions of Harmony to Modern Music Pedagogy: Comenius on Music » Tomas

Nejeschleba [Palacky University, Ceska Republika]

1915: Discussion

2100-2200: Concerto/Discoteca di Stato – Palazzo Caetani/Via delle Botteghe Oscure.

Alessandro Sbordoni [Associazione Nuova Consonanza/Roma]

May 31
Auditorium
Foro di Alti Studi <Jacob Neusner>

ANCIENT, MODERN AND POSTMODERN PATTERNS

900-1030: Socratica: Sponsored by the International Society for Socratic Studies. Moderator Inbal Cohen- Taber [Technion University, Israel]
Claudia Marisco [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina]
Menahem Luz [Unversity of Haifa, Israel]

Ivana Costa, [Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina]

1100-1230: Epicurea: Moderator Menahem Luz [University of Haifa, Israel] Pamela Gordon [University of Kansas, USA]
Inbal Cohen-Taber [Technion University, Israel]

Lunch/Open

1400-1600: Cultural and Political ‘Myths’ of Techgnosticism: Moderator Giada Fiorese [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria Varese e Como, Italia],
“Knowledge, Power, and Salvation in the Post-Modern Age” Paolo Bellini [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia]

“Gnosis and Mysteries in F. W. J. Schelling’s Philosophy of Mythology” Fabrizio Sciacca [Università degli Studi di Catania, Italia]
“Body: Between Politics and Mythopoiesis” Raffaella Palmisano [Universita degli Studi dell’ Insubria Varese e Como, Italia].

“Pleromatic Modernities: Research notes towards a Definition of Techgnosis” Michele Olzi [Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese e Como, Italia].
1600: Discussion

Coffee Break

1630: Business Meeting

Contact

Robert Berchman – berchmanrob@earthlink.net

Eleonora Zeper – eleonora.zeper@gmail.com

Link

https://fsagaetanomassa.wordpress.com/