Conversion et spiritualités

dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge

Michel FATTAL, Paris: L’Harmattan, « Ouverture Philosophique », 2017

Description

Comment comprendre le phénomène particulier de la conversion au sein de différentes formes de spiritualités issues de milieux culturels et linguistiques variés ? Le présent ouvrage procède à une lecture philosophique et à une analyse précise de la notion de conversion dans la philosophie grecque païenne de Platon et de Plotin, dans certains textes fondateurs du judaïsme et du christianisme, chez le Pseudo-Macaire et chez Augustin d’Hippone, ainsi que dans la philosophie arabo-musulmane représentée par Al-Farâbî et Al-Ghazâlî.

(Texte de la maison d’édition)

Table de matières

Avant-propos

Introduction

Chapitre I – Qu’est-ce que la conversion chez Platon?

Chapitre II – Qu’est-ce que la conversion chez Plotin?

Chapitre III – En quoi la conversion de la Bible diffère-t-elle de la conversion philosophique?

Chapitre IV – En quels sens le Nouveau Testament envisage-t-il la conversion?

Chapitre V – La conversion de Paul de Tarse sur le chemin de Damas et la conversion de toutes les Nations

Chapitre VI – Les conversions d’Augustin d’Hippone

Chapitre VII – Les expériences spirituelles d’Augustin

Chapitre VIII – Conversion et spiritualité chez le Pseudo-Macaire

Chapitre IX – Conversion et expérience spirituelle de Dieu ou du divin chez Al-Farâbî

Chapitre X – Conversion et spiritualité chez Al-Ghazâlî

Conclusion

Lien

https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/livre-conversion_et_spiritualites_dans_l_antiquite_et_au_moyen_age_michel_fattal-9782343125824-54168.html

Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics

David J. Yount, London: Bloomsbury, 2017

Description

This book argues against the common view that there are no essential differences between Plato and the Neoplatonist philosopher, Plotinus, on the issues of mysticism, epistemology, and ethics. Beginning by examining the ways in which Plato and Plotinus claim that it is possible to have an ultimate experience that answers the most significant philosophical questions, David J. Yount provides an extended analysis of why we should interpret both philosophers as mystics. The book then moves on to demonstrate that both philosophers share a belief in non-discursive knowledge and the methods to attain it, including dialectic and recollection, and shows that they do not essentially differ on any significant views on ethics. Making extensive use of primary and secondary sources, Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology and Ethics shows the similarities between the thought of these two philosophers on a variety of philosophical questions, such as meditation, divination, wisdom, knowledge, truth, happiness and love.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Preface
Introduction
1. The Ultimate Experience: The Evidence of Mysticism in Plato and Plotinus
2. Epistemology: Plato and Plotinus on Knowledge
3. Ethics: Plato and Plotinus on Happiness, How to Live, and How Not to Live
4. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index

Link

http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/plato-and-plotinus-on-mysticism-epistemology-and-ethics/

Classical Philosophy

A history of philosophy without any gaps, 1

Peter Adamson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014

Description

Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyable than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, he offers an accessible, humorous, and detailed look at the emergence of philosophy with the Presocratics, the probing questions of Socrates, and the first full flowering of philosophy with the dialogues of Plato and the treatises of Aristotle. The story is told ‘without any gaps’, discussing not only such major figures but also less commonly discussed topics like the Hippocratic Corpus, the Platonic Academy, and the role of women in ancient philosophy. Within the thought of Plato and Aristotle, the reader will find in-depth introductions to major works, such as the Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics, which are treated in detail that is unusual in an introduction to ancient philosophy. Adamson looks at fascinating but less frequently read Platonic dialogues like the Charmides and Cratylus,  and Aristotle’s ideas in zoology and poetics. This full coverage allows him to tackle ancient discussions in all areas of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, ethics and politics. Attention is also given to the historical and literary context of classical philosophy, with an exploration of how early Greek cosmology responded to the poets Homer and Hesiod, how Socrates was presented by the comic playwright Aristophanes and the historian Xenophon, and how events in Greek history may have influenced Plato’s thought. This is a new kind of history which will bring philosophy to life for all readers, including those coming to the subject for the first time.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Preface

Early Greek Philosophy 
1. Everything is Full of Gods: Thales
2. Infinity and Beyond: Anaximander and Anaximines
3. Created in Our Image: Xenophanes
4. The Man with the Golden Thigh: Pythagoras
5. Old Man River: Heraclitus
6. The Road Less Traveled: Parmenides
7. You Can’t Get There From Here: the Eleatics
8. The Final Cut: The Atomists
9. Mind over mixture: Anaxagoras
10. All You Need is Love, and Five Other Things: Empedocles
11. Good Humor Men: the Hippocratic Corpus
12. Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger: The Sophists

Socrates and Plato 
13. Socrates Without Plato: The Portrayals of Aristophanes and Xenophon
14. Method Man: Plato’s Socrates
15. In Dialogue: The Life and Writings of Plato
16. Know Thyself: Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues
17. Virtue Meets its Match: Plato’s Gorgias
18. We Don’t Need No Education: Plato’s Meno
19. I Know, Because the Caged Bird Sings: Plato’s Theaetetus
20. Famous Last Words: Plato’s Phaedo
21. Soul and the City: Justice in Plato’s Republic
22. Ain’t No Sunshine: the Cave Allegory of Plato’s Republic
23. Second Thoughts: Plato’s Parmenides and the Forms
24. Untying the Not: Plato’s Sophist
25. What’s in a Name?: Plato’s Cratylus
26. A Likely Story: Plato’s Timaeus
27. Wings of Desire: Plato’s Erotic Dialogues
28. Last Judgments: Plato, Poetry, and Myth

Aristotle 
29. Mr Know it All: Aristotle’s Life and Works
30. The Philosopher’s Toolkit: Aristotle’s Logical Works
31. A Principled Stand: Aristotle’s Epistemology
32. Down to Earth: Aristotle on Substance
33. Form and Function: Aristotle’s Four Causes
34. Let’s Get Physical: Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy
35. Soul Power: Aristotle’s De Anima
36. Classified Information: Aristotle’s Biology
37. The Goldilocks Theory: Aristotle’s Ethics
38. The Second Self: Aristotle on Pleasure and Friendship
39. God Only Knows: Aristotle on Mind and God
40. Constitutional Conventions: Aristotle’s Political Philosophy
41. Stage Directions: Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Poetics
42. Anything You Can Do: Women and Ancient Philosophy
43. The Next Generation: The Followers of Plato and Aristotle
Guide to Further Reading

Link

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2017/2017-01-53.html

The Platonic Art of Philosophy 

George Boys-Stones (dir), New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Description

This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions which are sometimes very different in their approaches and interests, and so rarely brought into dialogue with each other. This volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics include: the literary unity of Plato’s works; the presence and role of his contemporaries in his dialogues; the function of myth (especially the Atlantis myth); Plato’s Socratic heritage, especially as played out in his discussions of psychology; and his views of truth and being. Prominent among the dialogues discussed are Euthydemus, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic, Theaetetus, Timaeus, Sophist and Laws.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Introduction George Boys-Stones

  1. Macrology and digression – Monique Dixsaut
  2. Two conceptions of the body in Plato’s Phaedrus – María Angélica Fierro
  3. Socrates in the Phaedo – Noburu Notomi
  4. Socratic intellectualism in the Republic’s central digression – David Sedley
  5. Timaeus in the cave – Thomas Johansen
  6. Reflective commentary (1): ‘Socratic’ psychology in the Republic – Christopher Gill
  7. Reflective commentary (2): appearance, reality and the desire for the good – Dimitri El Murr
  8. Waving or drowning? Socrates and the sophists on self-knowledge in the Euthydemus – M. M. McCabe
  9. Why was the Theaetetus written by Euclides? – Michel Narcy
  10. The wooden horse: the Cyrenaics in the Theaetetus – Ugo Zilioli
  11. The wax tablet, logic and Protagoreanism – Terry Penner
  12. A form that ‘is’ of what ‘is not’: existential einai in Plato’s Sophist – Denis O’Brien
  13. Truth and story in the Timaeus-Critias – Sarah Broadie
  14. The Atlantis-poem in the Timaeus-Critias – Mauro Tulli
  15. Friendship and justice in the Laws – Malcolm Schofield.

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/platonic-art-of-philosophy/92C599173D37C0CA5E5B2D5ED3851BB7 

LEM / Centre Jean Pépin

Platonisme et Néoplatonisme

 

Description et organisation

Centre Jean Pépin et LEM dans le cadre du département de philosophie de l’ENS de la rue d’Ulm

organisé par Luc Brisson, Pierre Caye et Philippe Hoffmann

2016-2017

Les séances auront lieu les lundis de 15h à 17h

Salle Pasteur – Pavillon Pasteur

École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm – 75005 Paris

Programme

10 octobre 2016 : Luc Brisson, Démiurgie et téléologie

17 octobre 2016 :  Arnaud Macé, L’agir et le pâtir

7 novembre 2016 : Pierre-Marie Morel, La nécessité dans le Timée : une trace démocritéenne

14 novembre 2016 : Luc Brisson, Le corps et l’âme (du monde et de l’homme)

21 novembre 2016 : Marwan Rashed, Quelques remarques sur le corps et l’âme du monde dans le Timée

28 novembre 2016 : Véronique Boudon-Millot, La médecine dans le Timée ; le témoignage de Galien

5 décembre 2016 : Filip Karfik, Λέγει κινουμένη. Les fonctions de l’âme du monde dans le Timée de Platon

12 décembre 2016 : Gabrièle Wersinger, La chôra

9 janvier 2017 : Angela Ulacco, Le pseudo-Timée de Locres

16 janvier 2017 : Alain Lernoud, L’interprétation du Timée par Proclus

23 janvier 2017 : Anca Vassiliu, Le livre Lambda de la Métaphysique d’Aristote à l’aune du Timée.

30 janvier 2017 : Bruno Pinchard, Lectures du Timée à la Renaissance

(Texte des organisateurs)

Lien

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

Religious Platonism

The Influence of Religion on Plato and the Influence of Plato on Religion

James K. Fableman, London: Routledge, 2016

Description

In Plato’s Laws is the earliest surviving fully developed cosmological argument. His influence on the philosophy of religion is wide ranging and this book examines both that and the influence of religion on Plato. Central to Plato’s thought is the theory of forms, which holds that there exists a realm of forms, perfect ideals of which things in this world are but imperfect copies. In this book, originally published in 1959, Feibleman finds two diverse strands in Plato’s philosophy: an idealism centered upon the Forms denying full ontological status to the realm of becoming, and a moderate realism granting actuality equal reality with Forms. For each strand Plato developed a conception of religion: a supernatural one derived from Orphism, and a naturalistic religion revering the traditional Olympian deities

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Introduction: Parrhesia

Part 1: Plato’s Religious Philosophy

  1. Plato’s Method
  2. Plato’s Two Philosophies
  3. The Greek Religious Inheritance
  4. The Influence of Orphism
  5. Plato’s Two Religions

Part 2: The Religious Influence of Plato

  1. Aristotle’s Religion
  2. Philo’s Philosophy of Religion
  3. Plotinus’ Philosophy of Religion
  4. Rivals and Substitutes for Platonism
  5. Early Neoplatonism
  6. Later Neoplatonism: The Middle Ages

Link

https://www.routledge.com/Religious-Platonism-The-Influence-of-Religion-on-Plato-and-the-Influence/Feibleman/p/book/9781138985049

LEM / Centre Jean Pépin

Platonisme et Néoplatonisme

Description et organisation

Séminaire de recherche – Centre Jean Pépin et LEM dans le cadre du département de philosophie de l’ENS de la rue d’Ulm. Organisé par Luc Brisson, Pierre Caye et Philippe Hofmann (2015-2016). Les séances auront lieu les lundis de 15h à 17h – Salle des conférences – Pavillon Pasteur, École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm – 75005 Paris.

Programme

8 Février 2016 : Luc Brisson, Introduction au néoplatonisme

15 Février 2016 : Sylvain Roux, La notion de principe dans le néoplatonisme

7 Mars 2016 : Philippe Hoffman, Quelques notions cardinales du néoplatonisme  grec (1).

14 Mars 2016 : Philippe Hoffmann, Quelques notions cardinales du néoplatonisme grec (2).

21 Mars 2016 : Francesco Fronterotta, La critique plotinienne de la causalité finale en Ennéades VI 7 (Traité 38), chapitres 1-3 et 25.

4 Avril 2016 : Gwenaëlle Aubry, Métaphysique(s) de la puissance.

11 Avril 2016 : Laurent Lavaud, Être et acte. Les différents sens de la substance dans le néoplatonisme.

9 Mai 2016 : Jérôme Laurent, La double vie de l’âme selon Plotin.

23 Mai2016 : Luc Brisson, La nature : La fabrication du monde sensible par l’âme du monde.

30 Mai 2016 : Philippe Soulier, Les sens multiples de l’infini (apeiron). (1)

6 Juin 2016 : Philippe Soulier, Les sens multiples de l’infini (apeiron). (2)

13 Juin 2016 : Pierre Caye, La différence hénologique.

(Texte des organisateurs)

Lien

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

LEM / Centre Jean Pépin

Platonisme et Néoplatonisme

Description et organisation

Séminaire de recherche – Centre Jean Pépin et LEM dans le cadre du département de philosophie de l’ENS de la rue d’Ulm. Organisé par Luc Brisson, Pierre Caye et Philippe Hofmann (2015-2016). Les séances auront lieu les lundis de 15h à 17h – Salle Pasteur – Pavillon Pasteur, École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm – 75005 Paris.

Programme

5 Octobre 2015 : Luc Brisson & Tiziano Dorandi, Tradition manuscrite et Interprétations antiques de l’œuvre de Platon.

12 Octobre 2015 : Luc Brisson, Interprétations modernes et contemporaines de la politique platonicienne : position standard, position de Leo Strauss et position d’Alain Badiou.

19 Octobre 2015 : Luc Brisson, Loi positive et loi naturelle chez Platon.

9 Novembre 2015 : Dimitri El Murr , Amitié et politique chez Platon (1): Hiérarchie et communauté dans la cité idéale de la République.

16 Novembre 2015 : Dimitri El Murr,   Amitié et politique chez Platon (2) : l¹amitié civique dans le Politique et les Lois.

23 Novembre : Olivier Renault, Communauté et opinion publique dans la République.

30 Novembre 2015 : Olivier Renault,  L’éducation des désirs et des plaisirs dans les Lois ».

7 Décembre 2015 : Anne-Gabrièle Wersinger, Le philosophe-roi et la politique des arts chez Platon (La République et les Lois).

14 Décembre 2015 : Anne-Gabrièle Wersinger, La relation de la politique à la religion et au droit  chez Platon.

11 Janvier 2016 : Christian Jambet, La République de Platon dans l’islam chiite.

18 Janvier 2016 : Pierre Caye, Le diférend sur l’essence du politique entre Aristote et Platon selon Tommaso Campanella.

25 Janvier 2016 : Yannis Constantinidès,  « L’horizon humain » : Nietzsche et la politique platonicienne.

(Texte des organisateurs)

Lien

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

Cosa è un’idea?

L’intelligenza nell’ultimo Platone

Francesca Pizzuti, Roma: Lithos, 2015

Descrizione

Le idee, nel loro complesso, il mondo intellegibile e il rapporto che esso intrattiene con il mondo sensibile, rappresentano il punto di partenza di tutto il sistema filosofico di Platone, dall’ontologia all’etica e all’epistemologia.

(Testo della casa editrice) 

Link

https://www.lithos-libri.it/product/cosa-e-unidea-lintellegibile-nellultimo-platone-francesca-pizzuti/

Metaphysical Patterns in Platonism

Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Times

John F. Finamore and Robert M. Berchman (eds.), The Prometheus Trust, 2014

Description

This anthology of 18 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2005 annual conference.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

The Platonic Tripartite Soul and the Platonism of Galen’s on the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato – John F. Finamore;

Who Thought the Stars are Causes? The Astrological Doctrine Criticized by Plotinus – Marilynn Lawrence;

The Transcendence of Sophia in Plotinus’ Treatise On Intelligible Beauty – Daniele Bertini;

The Good’s Beauty is Above Beauty: Plotinus’ Argument In Ennead VI.7 – Martin Achard;

Plotinus On The Being of The One – John Bussanich;

Consulting the Oracle: The Mantic Art and its Causation in Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis – Crystal Addey;

Astrology as Divination: Iamblichean Theory and its Contemporary Practice – Gregory Shaw;

The Roles of Apollo and Dionysus in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy and in the Emperor Julian’s Theology – Jay Bregman;

Augustine, Proust and the Rhetoric of Time and Creation – Burcht Pranger;

Monophysitism and the Evolution of Theological Discourse in Christian Neoplatonism – Edward Moore;

Eriugena, Emerson and the Poetics of Universal Nature – Willemien Otten;

Marsilio Ficino’s Platonism on Human-Divine Kinship and Assimilation – Mary Lenzi;

The Place of the Universe: Science and Platonism in Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus – Gina Zavota;

Mapping Knowledge and Consciousness of Being: Categories as Transcendentals in Plotinus and Hegel – Robert M. Berchman;

Critique and Rescue: On Adorno’s Diagnosis of Aristotle’s Metaphysics – Russell Ford;

Wincenty Lutoslawski Platonic Studies: Plato as an Inspiration for Polish Messianism – Tomas Mróz;

Neoplatonism in Science Past and Future – Bruce Maclennan;

The Primordial Tradition of the World’s Religions and the Reconstruction of Neoplatonic Metaphysics – Atsushi Sumi.

Link

https://www.prometheustrust.co.uk/html/collections_from_the_isns.html