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/

La mística eneádica

Publié le par Luciana Soares

La mística eneádica

Genealogía, análisis y comparación

Gabriel Martino, Buenos Aires, Teseo Press, 2020

Descripción

En el presente texto, analizamos la mística en las Enéadas de Plotino desde tres puntos de vista. En la primera parte, nos concentramos en la teoría y metodología desarrolladas en los estudios de la mística a lo largo del último siglo y medio y buscamos poner de manifiesto el impacto de tales estudios sobre los intérpretes de Plotino. En la segunda parte, analizamos del texto plotiniano desde la perspectiva del abordaje dialógico-narrativo desarrollado por Gavin Flood para el estudio de las religiones. Nuestra tercera parte está dedicada a la cuestión de la relación entre Plotino y la India, desde una perspectiva comparativa. Examinamos algunos textos sánscritos representativos y procuramos esclarecer el modo en que las categorías de “filosofía” y de “mística” han sido aplicadas sobre ellos. Nuestro estudio propone una categoría transcultural de mística que implica una relación hermenéutico-dialógica entre la interioridad del hombre y su tradición textual.

Gabriel Martino es licenciado y doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Realizó estudios posdoctorales becado por el CONICET, institución en la que actualmente se desempeña como investigador. Sus temas de investigación abarcan la filosofía griega antigua y la filosofía antigua de la India, la filosofía comparada y la filosofía de la religión. Es docente de sánscrito en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y de griego en la Universidad del Salvador.

(Texto de la editorial)

Índice

Comité de redacción del Instituto de Filosofía “Dr. Alejandro Korn”

IntroducciónPrimera parte: Genealogía de la mística (eneádica)

1. El estudio filosófico de la mística y su proyección sobre los estudios plotinianos

2. La “mística” plotiniana

3. Nuestro abordaje de la mística (eneádica)

Segunda parte: Análisis de la mística eneádica

1. Plotino y su producción

2. El contexto filosófico de las Enéadas

3. La mística eneádica

Tercera parte: La mística de los Yogasūtras y la mística eneádica

1. Cuestiones teóricas y metodológicas relativas al estudio filosófico-comparativo

2. El Yoga y el sistema patañjálico

3. La mística eneádica y la yogasútrica en comparación

Conclusiones

Bibliografía

Cómo citar esta publicación:

Martino, G. (2020) La mística eneádica, Buenos Aires.

Link

https://www.teseopress.com/misticaeneadica

Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy

Publié le par Luciana Soares

Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception

in Christian Philosophy. 

Exploring Love in Plotinus, Proclus and Dionysius the Areopagite

Dimitrios A. Vasilakis, London, Bloomsbury, 2020, 232 p.

Description

A detailed analysis of the fundamental texts on Love (eros) by three key Neoplatonic thinkers, as well as a systematic comparison of them. Showing the ontological importance of eros within the philosophical systems inspired by Plato, Dimitrios A. Vasilakis examines the notion of eros in key texts of the Neoplatonic philosophers, Plotinus, Proclus, and the Church Father, Dionysius the Areopagite. Outlining the divergences and convergences between the three brings forward the core idea of love as deficiency in Plotinus and charts how this is transformed into plenitude in Proclus and Dionysius. Does Proclus diverge from Plotinus in his hierarchical scheme of eros? Is the Dionysian hierarchy to be identified with Proclus’ classification of love? By analysing the Enneads, III.5, the Commentary on the First Alcibiades and the Divine Names side by side, Vasilakis uses a wealth of modern scholarship, including contemporary Greek literature to explore these questions, tracing a clear historical line between the three seminal late antique thinkers.

(Text from the publisher) 

Table of contents

Preface
Abstract and Key-words
Introduction

Chapter 1 Plotinus and Enneads III.5.[50]: “On Love”
1.1. The ontological status of Soul’s Eros
1.2. Potential objections and answers
1.3. Nous and Eros
1.4. Conclusions

Chapter 2 Proclus on the First Alcibiades
2.1. Providential and Reversive eros: Proclus versus Plotinus?
2.2. Locating Eros in the intelligible hierarchy

Chapter 3 Dionysius and the Divine Names
3.1. Divine Eros and its function
3.2. From Christian agape to the Christification of Eros

Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Link

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/eros-in-neoplatonism-and-its-reception-in-christian-philosophy-9781350163850/

Cycle de conférences Léon Robin

Publié le par Luciana Soares
Centre Léon Robin

Platon et Aristote, l’ancienne académie et le néoplatonisme plotinien

 Programme de l’année 2020-2021

 

 

Programme

vendredi 27 novembre 2020, 14h30-17h30, Campus des Cordeliers, 15 rue de l’École de Médecine, salle Déjerine

Laura Castelli (Université Ludwig-Maximilian, Munich) : « Aristotle, Categories 10-11 and its Academic background »

Répondant : Thomas Bénatouïl (Université de Lille)

En raison du confinement, cette séance se tiendra par visioconférence : pour participer, s’adresser à jean-baptiste.gourinat[at]sorbonne-universite.fr).

vendredi 11 décembre, 14h30-17h30, Campus des Cordeliers, 15 rue de l’École de Médecine, salle des thèses

Andrea Capra (Université de Durham) : « Figures in the distance. Discerning the Academy in Plato’s dialogues »

Répondante : Rossella Saetta Cottone (CNRS, Centre Léon Robin)

En raison du confinement, cette séance se tiendra par visioconférence : pour participer, s’adresser à jean-baptiste.gourinat[at]sorbonne-universite.fr).

vendredi 22 janvier 2021, 14h30-17h30, salle D116, Sorbonne Université, Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente

Olivier Renaut (Université de Nanterre) : « Causes et effets de la pitié (eleos) chez Platon et Aristote »

Répondante : Cristina Viano (CNRS, Centre Léon Robin)

En raison du confinement, cette séance se tiendra par visioconférence : pour participer, s’adresser à jean-baptiste.gourinat[at]sorbonne-universite.fr).

vendredi 12 février, 14h30-17h30, salle D116, Sorbonne Université, Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente

Arnaud Macé (Université de Franche-Comté) : « L’âme végétative chez Platon et Aristote »

Répondant : David Lefebvre (Sorbonne Université, Centre Léon Robin)

En raison du confinement, cette séance se tiendra par visioconférence : pour participer, s’adresser à jean-baptiste.gourinat[at]sorbonne-universite.fr).

vendredi 19 mars, 14h30-17h30, salle D116, Sorbonne Université, Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente

Eyjólfur Emilsson (Université d’Oslo) : « Soul, technè and logismos in Plotinus »

Répondant : Riccardo Chiaradonna (Université Roma Tre)

vendredi 9 avril, 14h30-17h30, salle D116, Sorbonne Université, Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente

Laurent Lavaud (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) : « Plotin, interprète critique de la conception aristotélicienne du mouvement »

Répondante : Alexandra Michalewski (CNRS, Centre Léon Robin)

vendredi 28 mai, 14h30-17h30, salle D116, Sorbonne Université, Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente

Francesco Fronterotta (Université de Rome – La Sapienza) : « L’âme de l’être : pantelôs on et panteles zôon chez Platon »

Répondant : Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (CNRS, Centre Léon Robin)

Nota Bene. En fonction de l’évolution de la situation sanitaire, tout ou partie du séminaire est susceptible d’avoir lieu en videoconférence.

Contact

1, RUE VICTOR COUSIN – 75005 PARIS – SECRÉTARIAT : 01 40 46 26 32 – FAX : 01 40 46 26 62

(Texte des organisateurs)

Lien :  http://centreleonrobin.fr/recherche/seminaires-2/28-recherche/seminaires/285-cycle-de-conf%C3%A9rences-l%C3%A9on-robin-platon-et-aristote,-l%E2%80%99ancienne-acad%C3%A9mie-et-le-n%C3%A9oplatonisme-plotinien

The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism

Publié le par Luciana Soares

The Platonizing Sethian Background

of Plotinus’s Mysticism

Alexander J. Mazur, Leiden: Brill, 2020

Description 

In The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism, Zeke Mazur offers a radical reconceptualization of Plotinus with reference to Gnostic thought and praxis. A crucial element in the thought of the third-century CE philosopher Plotinus—his conception of mystical union with the One—cannot be understood solely within the conventional history of philosophy, or as the product of a unique, sui generis psychological propensity. This monograph demonstrates that Plotinus tacitly patterned his mystical ascent to the One on a type of visionary ascent ritual that is first attested in Gnostic sources. These sources include the Platonizing Sethian tractates Zostrianos (NHC VIII,1) and Allogenes (NHC XI,3) of which we have Coptic translations from Nag Hammadi and whose Greek Vorlagen were known to have been read in Plotinus’s school.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Editor’s Preface to the Present Volume

Dylan Michael Burns

Editor’s Note on References, Editions, and Translations

Abbreviations

Tables

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Gnostic Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism

Chapter 2 The Structure of Plotinus’s Ascent to Mystical Union with the One

Chapter 3 The Identity of Prenoetic and Hypernoetic Subjects in Plotinus

Chapter 4 “The Way of Ascent is the Way of Descent”: The Mechanism of Transcendental Apprehension in Platonizing Sethian Gnosticism

Chapter 5 Conclusion: Dissolving Boundaries

Bibliography

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/59061

Dieu sans la puissance : Dunamis et Energeia chez Aristote et chez Plotin

Publié le par Luciana Soares

Dieu sans la puissance

Dunamis et Energeia chez Aristote et chez Plotin

Gwenaêlle Aubry, Paris: Vrin, 2020

Description

L’enquête archéologique ouverte ici, et prolongée, dans le champ médiéval, par Genèse du Dieu souverain, interroge une double mutation : de l’ontologie aristotélicienne de l’en-puissance et de l’en-acte vers celle, moderne, de la puissance et de l’action; et du dieu acte pur vers le Dieu tout-puissant. Elle poursuit ce faisant un double projet : montrer comment, loin de trouver sa source ou son arkhē en la métaphysique d’Aristote, l’ontologie de la puissance se construit à l’inverse contre celle-ci; et mettre au jour l’opposition symétrique entre la figure aristotélicienne du dieu-Bien et celle, chrétienne, du Dieu-Souverain. Le premier volet du diptyque, qui fait ici l’objet d’une nouvelle édition revue et augmentée, propose une lecture de la Métaphysique fondée sur le couple conceptuel de la dunamis et de l’energeia : irréductibles tant à la matière et à la forme qu’à la puissance et à l’action, l’en-puissance et l’en-acte sont au principe d’une ontologie unitaire, qui se dévoile aussi comme une ontologie axiologique, identifiant en l’acte le mode d’être du bien, en l’en-puissance son mode d’action. Cette ontologie porte une pensée singulière du divin : acte, et non « forme pure », sans puissance, mais non pas impuissant, le premier moteur aristotélicien échappe à l’alternative entre le Dieu tout-puissant de la tradition métaphysique et le dieu faible des inquiétudes contemporaines. Qu’en est-il, alors, du devenir de cette ontologie? On tente de mesurer la portée du geste par lequel Plotin désigne son premier principe non plus comme acte pur, mais comme puissance de tout, dunamis pantōn. Avec lui s’inaugurent peut-être la subversion et l’oubli d’une pensée pour laquelle l’être, et le divin, ne se confondent ni avec la présence, ni avec la puissance.

(Texte de la maison d’édition)

Table de matières

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

AVANT-PROPOS À LA DEUXIÈME ÉDITION

INTRODUCTION

PREMIÈRE PARTIE

DUNAMIS-ENERGEIA ET LE PROJET MÉTAPHYSIQUE D’ARISTOTE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPITRE PREMIER : LE PROBLÈME DES  PRINCIPES ET  LA  QUESTION DU PLATONISME

D’une cause oubliée

D’une curieuse absence

Principe et puissance

CHAPITRE II : DUNAMIS, ENERGEIA ET LA SCIENCE RECHERCHÉE

La science de l’être

Les sens de l’être

L’être et le devenir

CHAPITRE III : FORME, ACTE ET OUSIA

Ousia et séparation

Le livre Z : forme et ousia

Le livre H : acte et ousia

CHAPITRE IV : LE SENS ONTOLOGIQUE DE LA DUNAMIS ET DE L’ENERGEIA ..

Le sens pré-aristotélicien de la dunamis

De l’interaction à l’actualisation

Le livre

L’être compris selon l’en-puissance et l’en-acte

CHAPITRE V : L’ACTE PUR ET L’UNIFICATION DE L’OUSIOLOGIE (Méta. k) .

Les lignes problématiques de k 1

Dunamis-energeia et l’unification des principes de la substance sensible (k 1-5)

L’ousia energeia et l’unification de l’ousiologie (k 6-10)

CONCLUSION

Une ontologie unitaire

Une ontologie axiologique

D’un dieu oublié

DEUXIÈME PARTIE

PLOTIN OU LA PUISSANCE DE TOUT

INTRODUCTION

CHAPITRE VI : PUISSANCE ET PRINCIPE

Puissance et transcendance

Puissance et causalité

Puissance et présence

CHAPITRE    VII :    PUISSANCE    ET     EN-PUISSANCE,    PROCESSION   ET CONVERSION

Puissance et participation

La constitution de l’Intellect

L’âme : signification éthique de la puissance

La matière : la capacité sans la tendance

CONCLUSION : BIEN ET PUISSANCE

BIBLIOGRAPHIE

INDEX DES PASSAGES CITÉS D’ARISTOTE ET DE PLOTIN

INDEX DES NOMS

INDEX DES NOTIONS

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Lien

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Just out : The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism

Alexander J. Mazur, Leiden: Brill, 2020
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Brill, Leiden – Boston,  Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, Volume: 98, 2020
In The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism, Zeke Mazur offers a radical reconceptualization of Plotinus with reference to Gnostic thought and praxis. A crucial element in the thought of the third-century CE philosopher Plotinus — his conception of mystical union with the One — cannot be understood solely within the conventional history of philosophy, or as the product of a unique, sui generis psychological propensity. This monograph demonstrates that Plotinus tacitly patterned his mystical ascent to the One on a type of visionary ascent ritual that is first attested in Gnostic sources. These sources include the Platonizing Sethian tractates Zostrianos (NHC VIII,1) and Allogenes (NHC XI,3) of which we have Coptic translations from Nag Hammadi and whose Greek Vorlagen were known to have been read in Plotinus’s school.
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Table of contents
Editor’s Preface to the Present Volume 
Author’s Acknowledgments 
Editor’s Note on References, Editions, and Translations 
Abbreviations 
List of Tables 
Author’s Preface 1 Introduction: The Gnostic Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism 
1 The Fundamental Problem of Plotinian Mysticism
2 Problems with the Prior Scholarship on Plotinian Mysticism
3 Platonizing Sethian Visionary Ascent and the Historical Context of Plotinian Mysticism
4 The Current State of the Research2 The Structure of Plotinus’ Ascent to Mystical Union with the One 
1 Introduction
2 Phase A: Catharsis
3 Phase B: Mystical Self-Reversion
4 Phase C: Autophany
5 Excursus: A First Meditation on the Identity of the Mystical Subject
6 Phase C2: Self-Unification
7 Phase D: Annihilation
8 Excursus: Second Meditation on the Identity of the Mystical Subject
9 Excursus: On Beauty
10 Phase E: Union with the One
11 Vision and Light
12 Ennead VI.9[9].11.22–25 [See Complete Passage in Appendix A8]
13 Ennead VI.7[38].36.10–26 [Appendix A16]
14 Ennead V.3[49].17.28–38 [Appendix A19]
15 Excursus on V.3[49].17–28
16 Ennead V.5[32].8.18–21 [Appendix A12]
17 Convergence of Center-Points
18 Sexual Intercourse
19 Excursus on VI.7[38].35.23–32
20 Rapture or Spatial Displacement
21 Excursus on VI.7[38].35.36–40
22 Excursus on VI.7[38].36.15–18
23 Cultic Praxis
24 Phase E2: Desubjectification
25 Conclusion3 The Identity of Prenoetic and Hypernoetic Subjects in Plotinus 
1 Introduction
2 1. Plotinian Ontogenesis
3 2. The Identity of the Hypernoetic Subject with the Prenoetic Efflux
4 3. The Convergence of Prenoetic and Hypernoetic Ecstasy
5 Conclusion4 “The Way of Ascent is the Way of Descent”: The Mechanism of Transcendental Apprehension in Platonizing Sethian Gnosticism 
1 Introduction
2 1. The Structure of Ascent in the Platonizing Sethian Ascent Treatises
3 2. Mystical Self-Reversion and Autophany in Gnostic Visionary Ascent
4 3. The Faculty of Transcendental Apprehension in Platonizing Sethianism
5 Conclusion

5 Conclusion: Dissolving Boundaries 
1 Introduction
2 1. Platonists and Gnostics in Alexandria and Rome: Biographical and Socio-historical Reflections
3 2. Philosophical Contemplation and Ritual Praxis
4 Conclusion
Appendices

Bibliography 
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