The theory and practice of cosmic ascent: comparative and interdisciplinary approaches

Publié le par Giulia Bertoli Miraglia
The Trinity Plato Center

The Theory and Practice of Cosmic Ascent

Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Description and organization

One of the most striking genres in the history of western thought is the account of cosmic ascent; we find narratives of humans ascending to the stars and beyond in a vast array of sources from among the earliest written accounts of western literature until the present day. How are we to interpret such accounts? Possibilities include reading them as tropological performances, as ritual prescriptions, as experiential accounts, as as some combination of these, but this list does not exhaust the hermeneutic options. Even a selective list of ancient and more recent ascent-accounts is striking for the vast range and widely-varied nature of the evidence. From the Hellenistic period onward, Mediterranean religions and philosophies looked increasingly to a model of human ascent as a primary locus for spiritual achievement; however, the ways in which such ascent was conceptualized vary enormously from tradition to tradition. This conference brings together specialists from a number of fields and methodological approaches with a view to expanding understanding of the significance of cosmic ascent-accounts.
The conference has been rescheduled and brought online. If you wish to attend, please send a message to the contact
address below. A Zoom link will be sent out prior to the conference.

Programme

Day 1: Platonism, Platonistic Religious Currents, and Divinisation

Friday, 10 Sept.
Session Chair: John Dillon

1.00 (BST/GMT + 1) Welcome and opening remarks: Nicholas Banner and John Dillon
2.00 Yulia Ustinova, Ben Gurion University: ‘Soul liberated of its fetters:’ out-of-body
experiences of Socrates and Plato.
2.45 Sean Costello, University of Michigan: Recalling what we were when we were ‘καθαροὶ ὅντεk’: Examining the self in the ascending charioteer myth of Plato’s Phaedrus
3.30 Zdenek Lenner, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE Paris) and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon): “Where has Plotinus’ soul gone ?” The Moon, the Saltire, and the Chorus, in Plutarch, Porphyry, and Proclus.
4.15 Break / discussion
4.45 Akindynos Kaniamos, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris): Astrological Mysticism and Astral Divinization in Theurgy and Hermeticism.
5.30 Christian Bull, Norwegian School of Theology: Eros and Ascent in the Hermetica.
6.15 Wouter Hanegraaff, Universiteit van Amsterdam: The Hermetic Ascent to the Ogdoad and the Ennead.
7.00 Open discussion-session

Day 2: Abrahamic Ascents
Saturday, 11 Sept.
Session Chair: Nicholas Banner

1.00 Daniel James Waller, Oriel College, Oxford: ‘I Have Bound the Constellations of the Sky’: Illocutionary Weight and Narrative Spells of Ascent in the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Incantation Bowls.
1.45 Mateusz Stróżyński, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań: Desiderarem quidem meliora: the cosmic ascent in Augustine’s Confessions 7.13.19
2.30 Paul Pasquesi, Marquette University: Φωk: Ascent Through and Transformation into a Soma of Light in the Ascension of Isaiah.

3.15 Break / discussion
4.00 Naomi Janowitz, University of California, Davis: Ascent Techniques in the Prayer of Joseph and the Prayer of Jacob.
4.45 Bojana Radovanović, Radboud University, Nijmegen: Quia me vestigia terrent: Isaiah’s Vision in the Bogomil circles – on the trail of the cosmic ascent journey?
5.30 Mostafa Younesie: Avicenna on the Speech of the Ascender to Heaven.
6.15 Owen Joyce Coughlin, University of Chicago: Ascent in Ficino’s On Love and Bruno’s On the Heroic Frenzies
7.00 Open discussion-session

Day 3: Receptions of Ascent
Sunday, 12 Sept.

Session Chairs: Dillon and Banner

1.00 Ashley Simone, Columbia University: Natural Philosophy and Phaethon’s Cosmic Ascent (Met. 1.750–2.328).
1.45 Christopher Star, Middlebury College: Roman Revelations: Cosmic Ascent in De rerum natura and De re publica.
2.30 Break / discussion
3.00 John Dayton, R.I.T. Dubai: The Scarab of Aristophanes.
3.45 Katie Reid, University of Warwick: Celestial Desires: The Influence of Martianus Capella’s Cosmic Ascent.
4.30 Joel White, King’s College, London: Scatological Ascent: Antonin Artaud’s Cruelty.
5.15 Closing Remarks: Nicholas Banner

Contact

Nicholas Banner nicholasbanner@gmail.com

(Text by the organisers)

Link

https://www.dublinplatocentre.ie/post/the-theory-and-practice-of-cosmic-ascent/

Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity

Publié le par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity

Dmitri Nikulin, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019

Description

This book is a philosophical study of two major thinkers who span the period of late antiquity. While Plotinus stands at the beginning of its philosophical tradition, setting the themes for debate and establishing strategies of argument and interpretation, Proclus falls closer to its end, developing a grand synthesis of late ancient thought. The book discusses many central topics of philosophy and science in Plotinus and Proclus, such as the one and the many; number and being; the individuation and constitution of the soul, imagination, and cognition; the constitution of number and geometrical objects; indivisibility and continuity; intelligible and bodily matter; and evil. It shows that late ancient philosophy did not simply embrace and borrow from the major philosophical traditions of earlier antiquity—Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism—by providing marginal comments on widely known philosophical texts. Rather, Neoplatonism offered a set of highly original and innovative insights into the nature of being and thought, which can be distinguished in much subsequent philosophical thought up until modernity.

(Text by the publisher) 

Table of contents

Part I Plotinus

1 The One and the Many

2 Number and Being

3 Eternity and Time

4 Unity and Individuation of the Soul

5 Memory and Recollection

6 Intelligible Matter

Part II Proclus

7 The Many and the One

8 Imagination and Matheatics

9 Beauty, Truth, and Being

10 The System of Physics

11 Matter and Evil

Lien

https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190662363.001.0001/oso-9780190662363

The presence of Plotinus: the self, contemplation, and spiritual exercise in the Enneads

Publié le par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia
Adam Mickiewicz University

The presence of Plotinus

The self, contemplation, and spiritual exercise in the Enneads

Description and organization

In the center of “The School of Athens”, a famous fresco by Raphael, we can see Plato and Aristotle, the two philosophers who may have been indeed the greatest thinkers of antiquity. However, the scholarly endeavor of the last century has demonstrated with increasing consistency that Plotinus – although his name and legacy is not so popular – could well stand next to them, especially so, because he attempted to synthetize the views of those great masters of the past. His presence in the Western philosophy was, perhaps, a more silent one, but also very influential. Since Late Antiquity, Christian, Jewish and Muslim philosophers were inspired by him as well as Renaissance Platonists and German Idealists. In year 2020, 1750 years had passed by since Plotinus died in a Campanian villa during what seemed to be the last wave of an ancient pandemic, usually called the “Cyprian plague”. Or, as he saw it, since his final ascent from “the divine in us to the divine in the All”. The conference was planned for the year 2020 to celebrate Plotinus’ presence in the Western tradition, but had to be postponed for obvious reasons.

One of the topics which has recently attracted a lot of scholarly attention is Plotinus’ view of the self. It seems original, interesting and refreshing in the midst of our “culture of narcissism”, where we tend to be preoccupied more than ever by concepts such as the self, self-realization, identity, and individualism. What we would like to discuss, however, is not only Plotinus’ philosophical view of the self, but the connections between his concept of the self and the practical dimension of his philosophy, famously described by Pierre Hadot as “spiritual exercise” and “the way of life”. During the three days of our online meeting, we will explore the connections between Plotinus’ view of the self, its contemplative knowledge of the divine realities, which is the goal of philosophical life, and the practical methods of arriving at this knowledge and at the transformation of the self.

Programme

Day 1: The self Wednesday, 16 June 2021

Session Chair: Mateusz Stróżyński

Opening of the conference

Keynote lecture

The demiurgic Intellect and individual intellects in Plotinus

Lloyd Gerson (University of Toronto)

Break

Plotinus: the self as the logos of the particularized soul

Siobhan Doyle (University College Dublin)

The self as potential for self-consciousness and independence

Yady Oren (University of Jerusalem)

Day 2 : Contemplation Thursday, 17 June 2021

Session Chair: Maria Marcinkowska-Rosół

Keynote lecture

Beginning to resemble the ground on which you walk: Ennead V.8.10.30 Sara Ahbel-Rappe (University of Michigan)

Break

The dimmest intellection: Nature’s creation and awareness in Plotinus

Ágoston Guba (Eötvös Loránd University)

Beauty and spiritual exercises in the ascent towards God in Plotinus

Luciana Gabriela Santoprete (Laboratoire d’Études sur les Monothéismes, CNRS)

Day 3: Spiritual Exercise Friday, 18 June 2021 Session Chair: Krystyna Bartol

Keynote lecture
Rhetoric, philosophy, and spiritual exercise in Plotinus

Christian Tornau (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) Break

Everywhere and nowhere: the textual indeterminacy of the undescended soul in Plotinus as performative anagogic writing

Nicholas Banner (Independent)
Imagination and spiritual exercise in Plotinus

Mateusz Stróżyński (Adam Mickiewicz University) Closing remarks

Contact

Those interested in attending the conference remotely, please, contact Mateusz Stróżyński for further details (email address: monosautos@gmail.com).

(Text by the organisers)

Link

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-self-contemplation-and-spiritual-exercise-enneads 

 

New Perspectives on the Enneads in the light of the debate between Plotinus and the Gnostics

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
LEM/CNRS

New Perspectives on the Enneads

in the light of the debate between Plotinus and the Gnostics

Description and organization

We are glad to invite you to the Colloquium “New perspectives on the Enneads in the light of the debate between Plotinus and the Gnostics”, organized in the frame of the collaborative project “Platonisms of Late Antiquity: philosophical and religious interactions” under the joint direction of Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete (CNRS, Laboratoire d’Études sur les Monothéismes, UMR 8584 – Université de recherche Paris-Sciences-et-Lettres, PSL), Anna van den Kerchove (CNRS, LEM – IPT), Éric Crégheur (Université de Laval) and George Karamanolis (Universität Wien).

It will take place on Monday (June 14th) and Tuesday (June 15th), 13.00 – 19.00 French time.

Those who would like to attend can receive the Zoom link by sending an e-mail to petosiris33@gmail.com

The event will include, among others, talks in French and in English by Dominic O’Meara, John Dillon, Philippe Hoffmann, Dylan Burns, Chiara Ombretta Tommasi, Izabela Jurasz and Mauricio Marsola (see the complete program down below) and will be moderated by the following session chairs : Daniela Patrizia Taormina, Filip Karfik, Pascal Mueller-Jourdan and Michael Chase.

Programme

14 JUNE

Chair of the session: FILIP KARFIK (UNIVERSITÉ DE FRIBOURG)

13.00 – Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete (CNRS, LEM) : Ouverture des travaux: Hi s torique et enjeux du projet « Plotin et les gnos tiques  » et Richard Harder: A New Treati se by Plotinus .

13.40 – Dominic O’Meara (Université de Fribourg) : Did Plotinus write a « Gros s schrift » agains t the Gnos tics ? 14.20 – Di scus s ion 14.50 – Coffee Break

Chair of the session: ANNA VAN DEN KERCHOVE (IPT – CNRS, LEM)

15.00 – Dylan Burns (Universiteit van Amsterdam) : Which Gnostic Text s did Plotinus Know? 15.40 – Discussion

15.55 – I zabela Jurasz (Centre Léon Robin) : Plotin et les chrétiens dans la polémique antignostique : histoire et perspectives de la recherche. 16.35 – Discussion

16.50 – Coffee Break

Chair of the session: MICHAEL CHASE (CNRS, CENTRE JEAN PÉPIN)

17.00 – John Dillon (Trinity College Dublin) : Plotinus , Second-Centur y Platoni s t s , and Gnos tics : some cases of Cross -Fertilisation? 1 7 .40 – Discussion

17.55 – George Karamanolis (Universität Wien) : The place of Enn. III.8 [30] in the argument of the Großschrift against the Gnostics. 18.35 – Discussion

15 JUNE

Chair of the session: PASCAL MUELLER-JOURDAN (UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE L’OUEST) – CNRS, LEM

13.00 – I zabela Jurasz (Centre Léon Robin) : Plotin et les chrétiens dans le Traité 33 (II, 9) : un débat métaphysique sur les principes . 13.40 – Discussion

13.55 – Chiara Ombretta Tommasi (Università di Pisa) : Le Logos dans le Traité 10 (V, 1) de Plotin et dans le Traité Tripartite (NH I, 5). 14.35 – Discussion

14.50 – Coffee Break

Chair of the session: DANIELA PATRIZIA TAORMINA (UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA TOR VERGATA)

15.00 – Éric Crégheur (Université Laval) : « Terre nouvel le » et « Terre aérienne » dans le traité anonyme du codex Bruce : la critique de Plotin confrontée aux sources gnos tiques . 15.40 – Discussion

15.55 – Mauricio Marsola (Universidade Federal de São Paulo – Unifesp) : Les troi s t ypes d’Hommes chez Plotin : l ’exégèse platonicienne et la polémique antignos tique. 16.35 – Discussion

16.50 – Coffee Break

17.00 – Philippe Hoffmann (EPHE – CNRS, LEM) : Les procédures rhétoriques de di squalification dans le Traité 33 (II, 9). 1 7 .45 – Discussion

18.00 – Anna van den Kerchove (IPT – CNRS, LEM) : Conclusions générales

Contact

Pour recevoir le lien Zoom et les exempliers des conférences, écrivez à l’adresse suivante: petosiris33@gmail.com.

(Text by the organisers)

Lien

Colloque_New_Perspectives_Juin_2021

Plotino sull’immortalità dell’anima

Publié le par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia
Istituto Svizzero

Plotino sull’immortalità dell’anima

Descrizione e organizzazione

Nuove prospettive di ricerca interdisciplinare su Enn. IV.7 (2)
Il trattato enneadico IV.7 (2) Sull’immortalità dell’anima è un testo singolare. L’opera è da riportare ai primissimi anni
dell’attività di Plotino come autore di trattati filosofici, occupa il secondo posto nella lista ‘cronologica’ inserita da Porfirio nella Vita Plotini (ed è lo stesso Porfirio a includerlo nella quarta enneade, contenente gli scritti plotiniani sulla terza delle tre ipostasi supreme, l’anima). È dunque preceduto dal solo, breve, trattato I.6 (1) Sul bello, e si tratta quindi del primo tentativo di riflessione da parte del pensatore di Licopoli sul problema dell’immortalità dell’anima. Plotino fa precedere la propria trattazione della questione (affrontata dal punto di vista di un pensatore di scuola platonica) da una lunga dossografia polemica tesa a dimostrare la falsità delle concezioni proposte, a riguardo, da alcune delle scuole filosofiche più celebri dell’antichità: vengono quindi confutate, una dopo l’altra, le tesi epicuree, stoiche (anima come materia), pitagoriche (anima come armonia), peripatetiche (anima come entelechia). Tale excursus occupa una parte molto ampia del trattato, e, per il modo in cui Plotino mette in campo le proprie tecniche argomentative, e per le informazioni che fornisce su altri sistemi di pensiero, ne costituisce, evidentemente, uno degli aspetti più interessanti: non è tuttavia certamente il solo. Il trattato IV.7 si pone difatti al centro di alcune discussioni di rilievo cruciale concernenti la storia del testo del corpus plotiniano in età tardo antica, lo studio della tradizione manoscritta, la valutazione dell’apporto della tradizione indiretta, l’influenza della tradizione gnostica, l’utilizzo delle fonti arabe. Il convegno si propone di esplorare lo spettro delle linee di ricerca convergenti su IV.7 (2). Grazie alla partecipazione di alcuni tra i migliori specialisti, italiani e stranieri, avremo modo di esaminare questo stimolante testo plotiniano privilegiando una prospettiva interdisciplinare e multidisciplinare che sia in grado di affrontare la pluralità di domande suscitate dal trattato. Siamo fermamente convinti del fatto che, dato il livello di specializzazione ormai raggiunto dalle diverse discipline in campo scientifico, soltanto un approccio di questo tipo, fondato sulle competenze di un’équipe diversificata, possa condurre a risultati realmente nuovi. Il testo su cui concentreremo i nostri sforzi appare, come si è visto, estremamente promettente. L’evento è realizzato in collaborazione con la Scuola Superiore di Studi in Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata.

12.03.2021, Online via Zoom

Registrazione 

Programma

H09:00 – Apertura dei lavori. Saluti di Adrian Brändli e presentazione del Convegno
H09:30 – Daniela P. Taormina: Struttura e temi di Plotino IV.7 (2)
H10:15 – Lorenzo Ferroni: Observations critiques sur le texte de Plotin IV.7 (2)
H11:00 – Pausa
H11:15 – Nicolas D’Andrès: Cette autre espèce d’âme (Tim. 69 C) est-elle immortelle, chez Plotin, au même titre que l’âme
rationnelle ? (Enn. IV.’97, 13-14)
H12:00 – Gheorghe Pașcalău: En partant de la beauté vers l’Un à travers l’âme. La place du traité IV.7 (2) dans la
composition des premiers écrits plotiniens
H14:30 – Luca Gili: Forms as Wholes. Plotinus’ Critique of the Entelecheia-Soul
H15:15 – Claudia Lo Casto: Il tema del ‘vero uomo’ in Plotino, Enn. IV.7 (2)
H16:00 – Pausa
H16:15 – Jean-Marc Narbonne: Éléments de pensée gnostique dans le traité 2 de Plotin
H17:00 – Federico Maria Petrucci: Polemica e costruzione: gli avversari di Plotino in Enn. IV.7

Contato

Istituto Svizzero

Università Roma To Vergata

(Testo degli organizzatori)

Link

https://www.istitutosvizzero.it/it/conferenza/plotino-sullimmortalita-dellanima-nuove-prospettive-di-ricerca-interdisciplinare-su-enn-iv-7-2/

Mind in Nature

Publié le par Luciana Soares

Mind in Nature

Bridging Process Philosophy and Neoplatonism

Maria Teresa Teixeira, Aljocha Berve & Moirika Reker, Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021

Description

The anthology Mind in Nature: Bridging Process Philosophy and Neoplatonism (edited by Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Aljoscha Berve, and Moirika Reker) is scheduled for release on February 2021. This collection of essays written by leading Whitehead scholars bridges two important philosophical movements in Western philosophy separated by many centuries: Neo-Platonism and Process Philosophy. It focuses on a variety of topics, which can be found in both theories, including creativity, temporality, holism, potentiality, causality, evolution, organism, and multiplicities. They all concur with an integral, natural worldview, showing that wholeness, complexity, and indivisibility are prevalent in Nature. All in all, it brings together Neo-Platonism and Process Philosophy through the impact the former had on the latter. This volume shows that process philosophy can contribute to an integral worldview as it draws on ancient philosophy, setting new paradigms for novel approaches to nature, science and metaphysics.

(Text from the publisher) 

Table of contents

Michael Wagner 1952-2020   vii

List of Abbreviations   ix

Preface   xi

The End of Final Causality in Plotinus’ Process Understanding of Nature

and Order   1

Michael F. Wagner

Uneasy Rapprochement of the Neoplatonic Eternity and Christian

Historicity in the Thought of Ioane   30

Levan Gigineishvili

Schopenhauer and Platonic Metaphysics. Towards a New Interpretation of the World as Will and Representation  39

Carlos João Correia

Whitehead’s Appropriation of Plato’s χωρα: Its Meaning and Effect for a Philosophy of Natural Experience  50

Luca Vanzago

Unity and Multiplicity: The Road to Openness. Plotinus in Henri Bergson’s Thought  59

Magda Costa Carvalho

A Bergsonian Reading of Plotinus’ Theory of Time    75

José C. Baracat Jr.

The Unity between Beauty and Good: Ethics of Contemplation and the Creation of Gardens  86

Moirika Reker

Infinity and Unity: From Eriugena to Whitehead  96

Maria-Teresa Teixeira

The World ‘Hangs Together’: Nature, Non-Being, and Infinity in John Scotus Eriugena and Alfred North Whitehead   111

Alex Haitos

God and Creation in A.N. Whitehead and Dionysius the Areopagite   121

Helmut Maaßen

Saint Augustine’s Numerical Aesthetics in the Light of Process Metaphysics    138

Ana Rita Ferreira

Nature With or Without Mind? – Science and the View from Nowhere in the 19th Century   148

Dennis Sölch

Symbolism and Dialogue: The Language of Discovery    166

Aljoscha Berve

The Concepts of “Creation” in the Late Philosophy of A. N. Whitehead   184

Michel Weber

A Process of Merging the Interior and Exterior Reality: A Short View on the Structure of Credition  201

Hans-Ferdinand Angel

Afterword   220

Contributors   221

Link

https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-6220-2

Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles

Publié le par Luciana Soares

Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles

A Study on Proclean Exegesis, with a Translation and Commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy

Nicola Spanu, London : Routledge, 2021

Description

This volume examines the discussion of the Chaldean Oracles in the work of Proclus, as well as offering a translation and commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy. Spanu assesses whether Proclus’ exegesis of the Chaldean Oracles can be used by modern research to better clarify the content of Chaldean doctrine or must instead be abandoned because it represents a substantial misinterpretation of originary Chaldean teachings. The volume is augmented by Proclus’ Greek text, with English translation and commentary. Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles will be of interest to researchers working on Neoplatonism, Proclus and theurgy in the ancient world. Nicola Spanu wrote a PhD thesis on Plotinus and his Gnostic disciples and took part in a postdoctoral project on Byzantine cosmology and its relation to Neoplatonism. He has worked as an independent researcher on his second academic publication, which has focused on Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The chaldean triad

Chapter 2 The structure of the divine dimension

Chapter 3 The world’s intellectual archetype and the Creation of the material dimension

Chapter 4 Man and his destiny

Chapter 5 Proclus’on chaldean philosophy. Translation and commentary

Conclusions

Index of ancient sources quoted

Bibliography

Link

https://www.routledge.com/Proclus-and-the-Chaldean-Oracles-A-Study-on-Proclean-Exegesis-with-a-Translation/Spanu/p/book/9780367473143

Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition

Publié le par Luciana Soares

Authority and Authoritative Texts

in the Platonist Tradition

Michael Erler, Jan Erik Hebler & Federico M. Petrucci, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021

Description

All disciplines can count on a noble founder, and the representation of this founder as an authority is key in order to construe a discipline’s identity. This book sheds light on how Plato and other authorities were represented in one of the most long-lasting traditions of all time. It leads the reader through exegesis and polemics, recovery of the past and construction of a philosophical identity. From Xenocrates to Proclus, from the sceptical shift to the re-establishment of dogmatism, from the Mosaic of the Philosophers to the Neoplatonist Commentaries, the construction of authority emerges as a way of access to the core of the Platonist tradition.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Introduction

By Michael Erler, Jan Erik Heßler, Federico M. Petrucci

Chapter 1 – Xenocrates’ Invention of Platonism

By David Sedley

Chapter 2 – An Iconography of Xenocrates’ Platonism

By David Sedley

Chapter 3 – Arcesilaus’ Appeal to Heraclitus as a Philosophical Authority for His Sceptical Stance

By Anna Maria Ioppolo

Chapter 4 – Authority beyond Doctrines in the First Century bc

Antiochus Model For Plato S Authority

By Federico M. Petrucci

Chapter 5 – Authority and Doctrine in the Pseudo-Pythagorean Writings

By Bruno Centrone

Chapter 6 – Constructing Authority

A Re Examination Of Some Controversial Issues In The Theology Of Numenius

By Alexandra Michalewski

Chapter 7 – Plutarch’s E at Delphi

The Hypothesis of Platonic Authority

By George Boys-Stones

Chapter 8 – Aristotle’s Physics as an Authoritative Work in Early Neoplatonism

Plotinus And Porphyry

By Riccardo Chiaradonna

Chapter 9 – Conflicting Authorities? Hermias and Simplicius on the Self-Moving Soul

By Saskia Aerts

Chapter 10 – Kathēgemōn: The Importance of the Personal Teacher in Proclus and Later Neoplatonism

By Christian Tornau

Chapter 11 – ‘In Plato we can see the bad characters being changed by the good and instructed and purified.’

Attitudes To Platonic Dialogue In Later Neoplatonism

By Anne Sheppard

Index Locorum

General Index

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/authority-and-authoritative-texts-in-the-platonist-tradition/951DF3CB9BE1C3EF472B9A00AA29C24F

Séminaire « Triades et Trinité. Structures ontologiques et cognitives »

Publié le par Luciana Soares
Centre Léon Robin

Triades et Trinité

Structures ontologiques et cognitives

Description et organisation

Dans le cadre  du programme « L’héritage philosophique de l’Antiquité » du Centre Léon Robin (CNRS/Sorbonne Université) le nouveau séminaire « Triades et Trinité. Structures ontologiques et cognitives ». Organisé par Anca Vasiliu commencera non le 28 janvier (selon le programme initial) mais le 18 février 2021. La première séance sera une journée d’études consacrée aux Triades platoniciennes. Elle se tiendra à la Sorbonne, Salle des Actes, 9h30-12h30 et 14h00-18h00.

Programme

Matin

Alexandra Michalewski (Centre Léon Robin, Sorbonne Univ.): Les triades principielles chez Atticus

Fabienne Jourdan (Centre Orient et Méditerranée, Sorbonne Univ.): La triade des intellects chez Numénius

Après-midi

Adrien Lecerf (Centre Léon Robin, Sorbonne Univ.): La triade des hypostases chez Porphyre

Philippe Hoffmann (EPHE): Triades chez Proclus et Michel Psellos

La journée est censée avoir lieu en présence des conférenciers (peut-être à une exception près) et avec un nombre restreint de participants. Elle sera transmise en visio et pourra être suivie par tous ceux qui le souhaitent. Le lien pour la connexion sera fourni via le site « philosophie.antique » et le site du Centre Léon Robin environ une semaine avant la date. Si la situation sanitaire ne permet pas une séance en présence des conférenciers, la journée se tiendra uniquement en vidéo-conférence.

Contact

Anca Vasiliu – vasiliu@ens.fr

(Texte des organisateurs)

Lien

www.centreleonrobin.fr

Séminaire d’initiation à la philosophie antique

Publié le par Luciana Soares
Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes

Séminaire d’initiation à la philosophie antique

Description et organisation

Le Centre Jean Pépin et Laboratoire d’Etude sur les Monothéismes dans le cadre du département de philosophie de l’ENS de la rue d’Ulm Platonisme et Néoplatonisme. Organisé par Luc Brisson, Pierre Caye et Philippe Hoffmann. Les séances auront lieu les lundis de 16h à 18h Salle des Résistants – École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm – 75005 Paris.

Programme

1er février 2021 : Luc Brisson, Eros dans l’orphisme.

8 février 2021 : Andrei Timotin, L’éros philosophique chez Platon et dans le médio- platonisme.

1er mars 2021 : Jean-Claude Picot, L’Amour et la Haine chez Empédocle.

8 mars 2021 : Valéry Laurand, Eros à la période hellénistique et romaine : le fuir ou le domestiquer ?

15 mars 2021 : Alain Petit, L’Éros néoplatonicien dans la pensée de Shaftesbury.

22 mars 2021 : Philippe Hoffmann, L’Eros chaldaïque et son interprétation néoplatonicienne.

29 mars 2021 : Laurent Lavaud, Beauté et charité selon saint Augustin.

12 avril 2021 : Christian Jambet, L’amour sur la voie du monde intelligible selon un Platonicien de Perse, Mullâ Sadrâ.

10 mai 2021 : René Lévy, De l’amour comme expérience transcendantale (Aristote, Maimonide).

17 mai 2021 : Dimitri El Murr, Amour de soi, amitié et liberté dans les Lois.

31 mai 2021 : Bruno Pinchard, Amour et chaos : Dante et Ficin.

7 juin 2021 : Frank La Brasca, Les déclinaisons de l’amour platonicien en milieu médicéen : Laurent le Magnifique, Politien, Landino, Benivieni.

14 juin 2021 : Gilles Hanus, Un amour sans affect : L’amour intellectuel de Dieu chez Spinoza.

21 juin 2021 : Denis O’Brien, L’Eros de Parménide et la Philia d’Empédocle : le très peu et le presque rien.

Contact

plato_neoplato@services.cnrs.fr

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Lien

https://umr8230.cnrs.fr/%C3%A9v%C3%A8nement/seminaire-platonicien-et-neoplatonicien/?instance_id=94