Theologische Orakel in der Spätantike

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
Goethe Universität Frankfurt

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Theologische Orakel in der Spätantike

Beschreibung und Organization

Zu den Charakteristika spätantiker Philosophie gehört das Interesse für inspirierte Texte. Dies gilt einerseits für Homer und weitere Dichter, deren poetischen Texten die Autorität göttlicher Inspiration zugeschrieben wurde und die aus der Perspektive eines philosophischen Ansatzes interpretiert wurden, andererseits für explizit theologische oder religiöse Dichtungen wie die Orphischen Hymnen. Weitere Texte wurden als Orakel auf die Götter selbst zurückgeführt und als deren direkte Mitteilung aufgefasst (die sich freilich menschlicher Rede bedient). Häufig befassen sich diese Orakel mit Fragen zum Wesen Gottes oder der Götter und mit dem Wirken der Götter im Kosmos, sodass von theologischen Orakeln gesprochen werden kann. Fünf Sammlungen sind in besonderer Weise einschlägig: die Chaldaeischen Orakel, die philosophia ex oraculis haurienda des Porphyrios, die Tübinger Theosophie, die Apollon-Orakel von Klaros und (zum Teil) die Sibyllinischen Orakel.
Die Gestalt dieser Orakel ist im Einzelnen ganz unterschiedlich; doch ähneln sie zum Teil frappant den Texten der Gnosis, die in hohem Maße durch kühne Metaphorik, überbordende Mythologie und pittoreske Personifikationen abstrakter Entitäten und Sachverhalte geprägt sind. Gemeinsam ist neben der Anspruch überlegenen Wissens; manche Orakel (insbesondere natürlich die sibyllinischen) beziehen sich ähnlich wie die Gnosis auf Jüdisches und Christliches. Grundlegend ist für beide Textgruppen der eigentümliche Bezug auf die platonische Tradition; insofern lassen sich theologische Orakel und Gnosis einem gemeinsamen Diskursfeld zuordnen, das mit einem Ausdruck John Dillons als „platonische Unterwelt“ bezeichnet werden kann; die theologischen Orakel der Spätantike – samt ihrer zeitgenössischen Exegese vor allem durch den Neuplatonismus – bilden somit einen wesentlichen Aspekt des Themas „Philosophie und Gnosis“.

Kontakt

helmut.seng@em.uni-frankfurt.de

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Link

https://www.puk.uni-frankfurt.de/75012472/Theologische_Orakel_in_der_Sp%C3%A4tantike

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Studies on the Ancient Commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo

Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz, Leyde: Brill, 2011
Description
The belief in the immortality of the soul has been described as one of the twin pillars of Platonism and is famously defended by Socrates in Plato s Phaedo. The ancient commentaries on the dialogue by Olympiodorus and Damascius offer a unique perspective on the reception of this belief in the Platonic tradition. Through a detailed discussion of topics such as suicide, the life of the philosopher and arguments for immortality, this study demonstrates the commentators serious engagement with problems in Plato’s text as well as the dialogue’s importance to Neoplatonic ethics. The book will be of interest to students of Plato and the Platonic tradition, and to those working on ancient ethics and psychology.
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Table of contents
Preliminary Material

Introduction

I. Olympiodorus On Suicide

II. Politics And Purification In Socrates’ Second Defence (Phd. 63b–69e)

III. Syrianus And Damascius: Two Interpretations Of The Argument From Opposites In Plato’s Phaedo (Phd. 69e–72d)

IV. Memory, Forgetfulness And Recollection In The Commentaries On Plato’s Phaedo

V. The Affinity Argument In Plato’s Phaedo

VI. The Final Argument In Plato’s Phaedo

VII. After Death: The Phaedo Myth And Its Neoplatonic Interpreters

General Conclusions

Bibliography

Index Rerum

Index nominum Veterum et Recentiorum

Index Locorum Potiorum

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/20281

The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato’s Timaeus and Parmenides

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato’s Timaeus and Parmenides

Sarah Klitenic Wear, Leyde: Brill 2011

Description

Although it has long been established that Syrianus, the teacher of Proclus, was the source of much of his student’s metaphysics, it is not known precisely what in Proclus’ thought can be attributed to Syrianus. The problem is compounded by the fact that Syrianus wrote very little and there is uncertainty as to whether written commentaries ever existed of his teaching on Plato’s Timaeus and Parmenides, the most important sources for Platonic metaphysics. This work attempts to re-construct the major tenets of Syrianus’ philosophical teachings on the Timaeus and Parmenides based on the testimonia of Proclus, as found in Proclus’ commentaries on Plato’s Timaeus and Parmenides and, Damascius, as reported in his On First Principles and commentary on Plato’s Parmenides.

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Table of contents

Introduction

Fragments

Abbreviations Of Works Frequently Cited

Bibliography

Index Of Philosophical Terms And Names

Index Of Passages From Ancient Authors

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/19574

The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul

Reflections of Platonic Psychology in the Monotheistic Religions

Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth and John Dillon (Editors), Leyde: Brill, 2009

Description

Plato’s doctrine of the soul, its immaterial nature, its parts or faculties, and its fate after death (and before birth) came to have an enormous influence on the great religious traditions that sprang up in late antiquity, beginning with Judaism (in the person of Philo of Alexandria), and continuing with Christianity, from St. Paul on through the Alexandrian and Cappadocian Fathers to Byzantium, and finally with Islamic thinkers from Al-kindi on. This volume, while not aspiring to completeness, attempts to provide insights into how members of each of these traditions adapted Platonist doctrines to their own particular needs, with varying degrees of creativity.

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Table of contents

Introduction

A. Early Period

Philo Of Alexandria And Platonist Psychology – John Dillon

St. Paul On Soul, Spirit And The Inner Man – George H. Van Kooten

B. Christian Tradition

Faith And Reason In Late Antiquity: The Perishability Axiom And Its Impact On Christian Views About The Origin And Nature Of The Soul – Dirk Krausmüller

The Nature Of The Soul According To Eriugena – Catherine Kavanagh

C. Islamic Tradition

Aristotle’s Categories And The Soul: An Annotated Translation Of Al-Kindī’S That There Are Separate Substances – Peter Adamson and Peter E. Pormann

Private Caves And Public Islands: Islam, Plato And The Ikhwān Al-Ṣafāʾ – Ian Richard Netton

Tradition And Innovation In The Psychology Of Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī – Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth

D. Judaic Tradition

The Soul In Jewish Neoplatonism: A Case Study Of Abraham Ibn Ezra And Judah Halevi – Aaron W. Hughes

Maimonides, The Soul And The Classical Tradition – Oliver Leaman

E. Later Medieval Period

St. Thomas Aquinass Concept Of The Human Soul And The Influence Of Platonism – Patrick Quinn

Intellect As Intrinsic Formal Cause In The Soul According To Aquinas And Averroes – Richard C. Taylor

Bibliography

Index Of Names

Index Of Concepts And Places

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/16850

The Enigmatic Reality of Time

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Enigmatic Reality of Time

Aristotle, Plotinus, and Today

Michael F. Wagner, Leyde: Brill, 2008

Description

The nature and existence of time is a fascinating and puzzling feature of human life and awareness. This book integrates interdisciplinary work and approaches from such fields as physics, psychology, biology, phenomenology, and technology studies with philosophical analyses and considerations to explain a number of facets of the perennial question of time’s nature and existence, both in contemporary and in its initial classical Greek context; and it then explores and explains two of the most influential investigations of time in classical Western thought: Aristotle’s, as presented in his Physics, and the (neo)Platonist Plotinus’ in his treatise On Time and Eternity. Original interpretative perspectives are argued in both cases, and special attention is paid to Plotinus as partly responding to and critiquing Aristotle’s account.

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Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter One – Is Time Real?

Chapter Two – Eleaticism, Temporality, And Time

Chapter Three – The Makings Of A Temporal Universe

Chapter Four – Parmenidean Time And The Impossible Now

Chapter Five – Cosmic Motion And The Speed Of Time

Chapter Six – Temporal Cognition And The Return Of The Now

Chapter Seven – Real Temporality In An Aristotelian World

Chapter Eight – Does Aristotle Refute Eleaticism?

Chapter Nine – Temporality, Eternality, And Plotinus’ New Platonism

Chapter Ten – Plotinus’ Critique Of Aristotelian Motion

Chapter Eleven – Indefinite Temporality And The Measure Of Motion

Chapter Twelve – Plotinus’ Neoplatonic Account Of Time

Bibliography

Index

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/15344

Philosophie et Gnosticisme

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
École Pratique des Hautes Études

Philosophie et Gnosticisme

Description et organisation

Le programme de recherche « Philosophie et Gnosticisme : base de données et répertoire bibliographique » vise à résoudre les problèmes épistémologiques de la recherche actuelle concernant les rapports entre les pensées plotinienne et gnostiques en réalisant une base de données et un répertoire bibliographique où seront rassemblés l’ensemble des travaux afférents, explorés systématiquement les parallèles thématiques et lexicaux entre ces pensées, analysés les principaux termes, thèmes et textes jusqu’à présent étudiés, la reprise et/ou l’originalité des arguments des spécialistes au cours de l’histoire intellectuelle et les raisons historiques de leurs approches. Ces deux instruments de travail inédits fourniront ainsi une « cartographie » de l’histoire des études sur les liens entre philosophie et gnosticisme et offriront à la communauté scientifique la possibilité de réaliser des recherches croisées entre les corpus philosophiques et gnostiques portant sur le vocabulaire, les doctrines et la bibliographie. Ils contribueront donc à faire avancer les recherches et à ouvrir également des nouvelles perspectives dans la recherche philosophique sur le débat qui animait non-chrétiens et chrétiens dans l’Antiquité. L’originalité de la méthodologie développée pour la mise en place de la base de données pourrait servir de modèle pour d’autres bases équivalentes. Pluridisciplinaire et plurilingue, cette recherche concerne un public très large : les historiens de la philosophie de l’Antiquité classique et tardive et du christianisme dans toute sa diversité.

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Lien

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/view/index/identifiant/hal-03214655

Order from Disorder: Proclus’ Doctrine of Evil and Its Roots in Ancient Platonism

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Order from Disorder

Proclus’ Doctrine of Evil and Its Roots in Ancient Platonism

John Phillips, Leiden: Brill, 2007

Description

This study places the doctrine of the evil of the Neoplatonist Proclus in its proper context, the exegetical tradition as it developed within the various schools of ancient Platonism, from Middle Platonism to early Neoplatonism. With regard to the evil of the body, there are chapters on the various interpretations of Plato’s notion of a pre-cosmic disorderly motion as the source of corporeal evil and on the role of what Platonists referred to as an irrational Nature in the origin of that motion. As for evil of the soul, there are chapters dealing with the concept of an evil World Soul and with the view that the evil that is ascribed to the human soul is a form of psychological weakness.

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Table of contents

Preliminary material

Introduction

Chapter One – Proclus’ doctrine of evil

Chapter Two – Evil as privation

Chapter Three – Evil as a disorderly motion

Chapter Four – Irrational nature

Chapter Five – The evil world soul

Chapter Six – Evil as weakness of the human soul

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/12752

The Lion Becomes Man: The Gnostic Leontomorphic Creator and the Platonic Tradition

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Lion Becomes Man

The Gnostic Leontomorphic Creator and the Platonic Tradition

Howard M. Jackson  (Author), Society of Biblical Literature, 1985

Table of contents

Abbreviations

List of Plates

  1. The Gospel of Thomas
  • A Puzzling Logion of Jesus
  • The Text-Critical Issue
  • Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 654
  • Summary
  1. The Gnostic Leontomorphic Demiurge
  • The Old Testament
  • Origen, Against Celsus
  • The Pistis Sophia
  • The Apocryphon of John
  • Manaean and Manichaean Texts
  • Summary
  1. The making of the Gnostic Synthesis
  • The Old Testament and Early Christianity
  • Ezekiel’s and the Merkabah
  • The Zodiacal Leo
  • Yahweh, Mios, and the Two Cities Leontopolis
  • The Orphic Cosmogony
  • The Mithraic Leontocephaline
  • Summary
  1. The Platonic Tradition
  • The Lion and the Passions
  • The Platonic Tradition
  • A Coptic Gnostic Version of the Parable
  • Summary

Plates

Link: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Lion-Becomes-Man-The-Gnostic-Leontomorphic-Creator-and-the-Platonic-Tradition-by-Jackson-Howard-M/9780891308737

Reading Plato in Antiquity

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Reading Plato in Antiquity

Harold Tarrant, Dirk Baltzly (eds.), London: Bloomsbury, 2006

Description

This important collection of original essays is the first to concentrate on how the ancients responded to the challenge of reading and interpreting Plato, primarily between 100 BC and AD 600. It incorporates the fruits of recent research into late antique philosophy, in particular its approach to hermeneutic problems. While a number of prominent figures, including Apuleius, Galen, Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus, receive detailed attention, several essays concentrate on the important figure of Proclus who provides the theme for the jacket of this book, with his characterisation of the true interpreters of Plato’s philosophy as a chorus of Bacchants. The essays appear in the chronological order of their focal interpreters, giving a sense of the development of Platonist exegesis in this period. Reflecting their devotion to a common theme, the essays have been selected and are presented with a composite bibliography and indices.

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Table of contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Harold Tarrant & Dirk Baltzly
1. Platonic interpretation and eclectic theory, Harold Tarrant
2. Pedantry and pedestrianism? Some reflections on the Middle Platonic commentary tradition , John Dillon
3. Apuleius on the Platonic gods, John F. Finamore
4. ‘Plato will tell you’: Galen’s use of the Phaedrus in De Placitis Hippocratis et Platonis IX, Julius Rocca
5. Platonists on the origin of evil, John Phillips
6. The species infima as the infinite: Timaeus 39e7-9 Parmenides 144b4-c1 and Philebus 16e1-2 in Plotinus Ennead VI.2.22 73, Atsushi Sumi
7. The doctrine of the degrees of virtues in the Neoplatonists: an analysis of Porphyry’s Sentence , its antecedents, and its heritage, Luc Brisson
8. The mathematics of justice, Hayden W. Ausland
9. A historical cycle of hermeneutics in Proclus’ Platonic Theology, Tim Buckley
10. Proclus as a reader of Plato’s Timaeus, John J. Cleary
11. The eikôs mythos in Proclus’ commentary on the Timaeus, Marije Martijn
12. Pathways to purification: the cathartic virtues in the Neoplatonic commentary tradition, Dirk Baltzly
13. The transformation of Plato and Aristotle, Richard Sorabji
14. The harmony of Plato and Aristotle according to Neoplatonism, Lloyd P. Gerson
15. Reading Proclus Diadochus in Byzantium, Ken Parry
Bibliography
Indices
Index Locorum
Index of Ancient Names
Index of Modern Names
Index of Selected Topics

Link

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/reading-plato-in-antiquity-9780715634554/

The passionate intellect : essays on the transformation of classical traditions : presented to Professor I.G. Kidd 

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The passionate intellect 

Essays on the transformation of classical traditions,

presented to Professor I.G. Kidd 

Ayres, Lewis., Kidd, I. G., London: Transaction publishing, 1995

Description

Ian Kidd, of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has long been known as a world-class scholar of ancient philosophy and of Posidonius, in particular. Through his long struggle with the fragments of Posidonius, Kidd has done more than any other scholar of ancient philosophy to dispel the myth of « Pan-Posidonianism. » He has presented a clearer picture of the Posidonius to whom we may have access. The bulk of this volume is built around the theme of Kidd’s own inaugural lecture at St. Andrews, « The Passionate Intellect. » Many of the contributions follow this theme through by examining how individual people and texts influenced the direction of various traditions. Many of the papers naturally concentrate on ancient philosophy and its legacy. Others deal with ancient literary theory, history, poetry, and drama. Most of the papers deal with their subjects at some length and are significant contributions in their own right.

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Table of contents

Bibliography of I.G. Kidd

Greeks and the Passionate Intellect – Ian Kidd

  1. Poetic Rhythms in the Myth of the Soul – Kenneth J. Dover
  2. Plato, Imagination and Romanticism – S. Halliwell
  3. Tradition and Innovation in the Transformation of Socrates’ Divine Sign – Mark Joyal
  4. [actual symbol not reproducible] in Plato’s Cratylus – David B. Robinson
  5. Counting Plato’s Principles – R. W. Sharples
  6. Pindar and the Victory Ode – Chris Carey
  7. Euripides: Ion and Phoenissae – Elizabeth M. Craik
  8. Roman Mind and the Power of Fiction – J. S. Richardson
  9. Did Thucydides Write for Readers or Hearers? – Shigetake Yaginuma
  10. Aenesidemus versus Pyrrho: Il fuoco scalda « per natura » (Sextus M. VIII 215 e XI 69) – Fernanda Decleva Caizzi
  11. Theophrastus, no. 84 FHS&G: There’s Nothing New Here! – William W. Fortenbaugh
  12. Alexandria, Syene, Meroe: Symmetry in Eratosthenes’ Measurement of the World – A. S. Gratwick
  13. Seneca’s Natural Questions – Changing Readerships – Harry M. Hine
  14. Crates of Mallos, Dionysius Thrax and the Tradition of Stoic Grammatical Theory – Richard Janko
  15. Aenesidemus and the Academics – Jaap Mansfeld
  16. Pathology of Ps.-Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine – Robin Waterfield
  17. Discipline of Self-knowledge in Augustine’s De trinitate Book X – Lewis Ayres
  18. Melanchthon’s First Manual on Rhetorical Categories in Criticism of the Bible – C. J. Classen
  19. « A Kind of Warmth »: Some Reflections on the Concept of « Grace » in the Neoplatonic Tradition – John Dillon
  20. Ausonius at Prayer – R. P. H. Green
  21. Philosophy of the Codification of Law in Fifth Century Constantinople and Victorian Edinburgh – Jill Harries

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/abs/kidd-festschrift-l-ayres-ed-the-passionate-intellect-essays-on-the-transformation-of-classical-traditions-presented-to-professor-i-gkidd-rutgers-university-studies-in-classical-humanities-7-pp-xvi376-new-brunswick-london-transaction-publishers-1995-cased-4994/F68EB8878D863F6D932585365C4F6511