Constructions of Mysticism as a Universal
Roots and Interactions Across Borders
Annette Wilke, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021
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The Enneadic Treatise IV 7 (2) constitutes Plotinus’ first attempt to reflect systematically on the problem of the immortality of the soul. It is a complex text, in which the exposition of the Plotinian doctrine is preceded by a long doxographic excursus dedicated to the refutation of the ideas of some ancient philosophical schools (Aristotelian, Epicurean, Stoic, Pythagorean). The problems posed by the treatise are addressed in this volume from an interdisciplinary perspective: historians of ancient thought and of Neoplatonism, historians of religions, historians of late antique culture, classical philologists meet in these pages to address, from very different points of view, one of the most stimulating texts left to us by Plotinus.
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Un’analisi del pensiero di Plotino, partendo dall’ambiente storico-religioso e filosofico nel quale visse, alla luce del rapporto con il platonismo e con lo gnosticismo. Con talento speculativo, Plotino riflette sul sistema dell’Assoluto – in cui la derivazione dal principio, l’Uno, va intesa come una generazione di immagini –, sull’essere umano, la libertà, il destino e la religiosità. Un’esposizione complessiva della filosofia di uno dei più importanti pensatori dell’antichità, che fa luce anche sulle sue somiglianze con la tradizione indiana e la sua persistenza nel pensiero occidentale.
Aldo Magris è professore di Filosofia teoretica all’Università di Trieste. Tra le sue pubblicazioni nel catalogo Morcelliana: La logica del pensiero gnostico (2012 2ed.); Destino, provvidenza, predestinazione. Dal mondo antico al cristianesimo (20162); Itinerari della filosofia e delle religioni (2 voll., 2017); Le invenzioni di Dio (2019). Ha inoltre curato i volumi: Trattati antichi sul destino (2009); Confutazione di tutte le eresie di Ippolito (20162).
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INTRODUZIONE
Premessa, 7
LA TRADIZIONE PLATONICA, 9
L’AMBIENTE RELIGIOSO, 40
CAPITOLO I LA VITA
CAPITOLO II LE OPERE
CAPITOLO III IL PENSIERO FILOSOFICO
IL SISTEMA DELL’ASSOLUTO, 115
ALLA RICERCA DEL SOGGETTO UMANO, 147
LIBERTÀ E DESTINO, 171
LA RELIGIOSITÀ PLOTINIANA, 198
CAPITOLO IV LA CRITICA
CAPITOLO V NOTA BIBLIOGRAFICA
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In Ennead II.4 Plotinus investigates the question of what underlies the forms that constitute the contents of our minds and senses. Aristotle had called this substrate « matter, » and Stoic philosophers followed suit. With a critical review of their notions, and reference to Plato’s so-called Receptacle, Plotinus develops an account of matter that makes it a supremely negative entity. How he describes the indescribable, and how he justifies incorporeal matter’s indispensability to bodies, are highlights of this tenaciously argued essay.
A. A. Long translates and interprets Plotinus’ treatise on the matter that underlies all physical and intelligible beings. With a wide-ranging introduction and probing analysis of details, he explains the intricate structure of the text. The book will appeal to everyone interested in the history of Platonism and ancient Greek theories of the world’s ultimate principles.
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The present volume explores the relationship between Platonism and Christianity in late antiquity with regard to concept of God, world formation, creation, providence, and freedom. The contributions by Christoph Markschies, Holger Strutwolf, Christian Pietsch, and Alfons Fürst were presented at a colloquium on the occasion of Barbara Aland’s eighty-fifth birthday and are collected in the present volume together with a reply by the jubilarian and a short introduction by Eve-Marie Becker.
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Eve-Marie Becker Platonismus und Christentum. Ihre Beziehungen und deren Grenzen Zur Einführung in diesen Band p. 1
Christoph Markschies ἦν ποτε ὅτε οὐκ ἦν oder: Schwierigkeiten bei der Beschreibung dessen, was vor aller Zeit war . 11 Holger Strutwolf Ewige Zeugung. Die Paradoxie des absoluten Ursprungs im Neuplatonismus und im christlichen Denken, p. 41
Christian Pietsch Providenz. Getaufter Platonismus am Beispiel von Augustins De Genesi ad litteram, p. 69
Alfons Fürst Freiheit in der römischen Kaiserzeit – platonisch und christlich, p. 89
Barbara Aland Platonismus und Christentum. Ihre Beziehungen und deren Grenzen Ein persönlicher Dank und eine Antwort, p. 121
Indices, p.137
1. Personenregister, p. 137
2. Sachregister, p. 139
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Several decades of scholarship have demonstrated that Roman thinkers developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer many perspectives that are of philosophical interest in their own right. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy explores a range of such Roman philosophical perspectives through thirty-four newly commissioned essays. Where Roman philosophy has long been considered a mere extension of Hellenistic systems of thought, this volume moves beyond the search for sources and parallels and situates Roman philosophy in its distinctive cultural context.
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy emphasizes four features of Roman philosophy: aspects of translation, social context, philosophical import, and literary style. The authors adopt an inclusive approach, treating not just systematic thinkers such as Cicero and Augustine, but also poets and historians. Topics covered include ethnicity, cultural identity, literary originality, the environment, Roman philosophical figures, epistemology, and ethics.
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Introduction, David Konstan, Myrto Garani, and Gretchen Reydams-Schils
Part I. The Roman Philosopher: Affiliation, Identity, Self, and Other
1. Pythagoreans and Samnite philosopher, Phillip Horky
2. Epicurean Orthodoxy and Innovation: from Lucretius to Diogenes Oenoanda, Pamela Gordon
3. Epicureans and Stoics in Augustan Poetry, Gregson Davis
4. Seneca and Stoic Moral Psychology, Gretchen Reydams-Schils
5. Marcus Aurelius and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises, John Sellars
6. Apuleius and Roman Demonology, Jeffrey Ulrich
7. Philosophers and Roman Friendship, David Konstan
8. The Ethics and Politics of Property, Malcolm Schofield
Part II. Writing and Arguing Roman Philosophy
9. Lucretius, Tim O’Keefe
10. Dialogue before and after Cicero, Matthew Fox
11. The Stoic Lesson: Cornutus and Epictetus, Michael Erler
12. Persius’ Paradoxes, Aaron Kachuck
13. Plutarch’s Platonism, George Karamanolis
14. Parrhêsia: Dio, Diatribe, and Philosophical Oratory, Dana Fields
15. Philosophical Therapy: Consolation in Roman Philosophy, James Ker
16. ‘We’ thinking: Cicero’s Academic Arguments, Orazio Cappello
17. Stoic Poetics, Claudia Wiener
Part III. Inside and Outside of Roman Philosophy
18. Translation, Christina Hoenig
19. Politics, Ermanno Malaspina and Elisa Della Calce
20. Rhetoric, Erik Gunderson
21. The Subject at its Limits, James I. Porter
22. Medicine, David Leith
23. Sex, Kurt Lampe
24. Time, Duncan Kennedy
25. Death, James Warren
26. Environment, Daniel Bertoni
Part IV. After Roman Philosophy: Transmission and Impact
27. Roman Pre-Socratics: Lucretius to Diogenes Laërtius, Myrto Garani
28. Reading Aristotle at Rome, Myrto Hatzimichali
29. Christian Ethics: The Reception of Cicero in Ambrose’s De officiis, Ivor Davidson
30. Recovering Platonism: Plotinus and Augustine, Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic
31. Byzantine Political Thought: Roman Concepts in Greek Disguise, Anthony Kaldellis
32. Latin Neoplatonism: the Medieval Period, Agnieska Kijewska
33. Transmitting Roman Philosophy: the Renaissance, Quinn Griffin
34. Nature, Anthropology, and Politics: the Enlightenment, Natania Meeker
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Plotinus is often accused of writing haphazardly, with little concern for the integral unity of a treatise. By analyzing each treatise as a whole, From the Alien to the Alone finds much evidence that he constructed them skillfully, with the parts working together in subtle ways. This insight was also key in translating several central passages by considering the flow of the argument as a whole to shed light on the difficulties in these passages as well as reveal the structure often latent in particular treatise. The volume also serves to clarify Plotinus’ rich use of images. Commentators, for instance, tend to take the images of light and warmth to explain the relation of soul and body as in conflict, with light casting out warmth. A close look at the text, however, reveals that Plotinus uses each image to correct the limitations of the other. Thus, since the soul is incorporeal, it is actually more transcendent than light and as activating the body is more completely present than warmth. Similarly, recent commentators are quick to take the related impassibility of the soul as implying a Cartesian gap between body and soul. The problem Plotinus faces, however, is that his description of the soul’s pervasive presence in the body jeopardizes its impassibility as in the intelligible. His effort then is actually to introduce a gap that preserves the soul’s nature, rather than overcome a gap that would make the very existence of the body problematic.
While this work confirms much recent scholarly consensus on Plotinus, many of Gurtler’s interpretations and general conclusions give constructive challenges to some existing modes of understanding Plotinus’ thought. The arguments and their textual evidence, with the accompanying Greek, provide the reader with direct evidence for testing these conclusions as well as appreciating the nature of Plotinus’ philosophizing.
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Fondé au début de l’été 1969 et labellisé laboratoire associé du CNRS à partir du 1er janvier 1970, le Centre d’études des religions du Livre (CERL), dont est issu l’actuel Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes (LEM, UMR 8584), a été créé au tournant crucial des années 1960 et 1970, quand, sous l’impulsion du CNRS, le modèle du laboratoire, exporté depuis le champ des sciences exactes, se généralise pour favoriser l’essor d’investigations collectives également en sciences humaines et sociales. Dans le vaste mouvement de restructuration de la recherche en cours dans la France d’après Mai 68, les sciences religieuses devaient prendre la place qu’elles méritaient. Les objectifs du CERL se sont alors définis essentiellement selon deux mots d’ordre : procéder à une étude comparative des trois monothéismes classiques (judaïsme, christianisme et islam) ; allier aussi rigoureusement que possible sciences des religions et histoire de la philosophie. La mémoire collective du CERL a voulu retenir qu’il avait été conjointement fondé par Paul Vignaux (1904-1987), Georges Vajda (1908-1981) et Henry Corbin (1903-1978) – triade savante qui représentait les trois grandes religions du Livre. Henry Corbin a pourtant été l’unique architecte d’un projet dont Paul Vignaux a assuré la réalisation institutionnelle. Le présent ouvrage revient sur un demi-siècle de recherches françaises consacrées à l’étude non confessante des monothéismes.
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Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi, Daniel-Odon Hurel et Brigitte Tambrun, Introduction
Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi, Histoire de la philosophie et sciences des religions
Sylvio De Franceschi, Des religions du Livre aux monothéismes
I. Origines et maîtres fondateurs
Pierre Lory, Henry Corbin, entre philosophie et science des religions
Irene Caiazzo, Paul Vignaux, un médiéviste militant
Paul Fenton, La contribution de Georges Vajda à l’étude de la mystique juive
Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi, Le Centre d’études des religions du Livre : l’esprit de l’institution
II. Perspectives sur les monothéismes
Philippe Portier, Les monothéismes dans le débat démocratique
Claire Soussen, Les études juives au CERL puis au LEM
Mathieu Terrier, Les origines du Coran entre herméneutique et histoire
Anna van den Kerchove, Gnose et le manichéisme au CERL et au LEM
Jean-Pierre Brach, L’histoire des courants ésotériques
III. Origines du christianisme et patristique
Pierluigi Piovanelli, De la sémiotique au néo-historicisme
Anne-Catherine Baudoin, Jean-Daniel Dubois, Des « Apocryphes du Nouveau Testament » aux « Apocryphes chrétiens anciens »
Florence Jullien, Au défi de la pluridisciplinarité : Les christianismes orientaux au CERL/LEM
Alain Le Boulluec, La patristique grecque à la croisée de plusieurs chemins
Michel-Yves Perrin, Les études augustiniennes du CERL au LEM
IV. Philosophies et religion
Olivier Boulnois, Penser le monothéisme
Philippe Hoffmann, Le néoplatonisme au Centre d’études des religions du Livre
Catherine König-Pralong, Mystiques, Sciences, Religions
Julie Brumberg, La philosophie au LEM
V. Modernités chrétiennes
Daniel-Odon Hurel, L’Histoire du monachisme et des institutions régulières au CERL/LEM
Philippe Castagnetti, Sainteté et canonisation : la maturation d’une thématique du CERCOM au LEM-CERCOR
Annie Noblesse-Rocher, L’exégèse chrétienne médiévale et moderne au LEM
Hubert Bost, Réforme(s), protestantisme(s) : théologie, exegèse et culture
Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi, Le travail et la production théologiques au défi d’une approche non confessante
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Index
Lien
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The work of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite stands at a cusp in the history of thought: it is at once Hellenic and Christian, classical and medieval, philosophical and theological. Unlike the predominantly theological or text-historical studies which constitute much of the scholarly literature on Dionysius, Theophany is completely philosophical in nature, placing Dionysius within the tradition of ancient Greek philosophy and emphasizing, in a positive light, his continuity with the non-Christian Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus. Eric D. Perl offers clear expositions of the reasoning that underlies Neoplatonic philosophy and explains the argumentation that leads to and supports Neoplatonic doctrines. He includes extensive accounts of fundamental ideas in Plotinus and Proclus, as well as Dionysius himself, and provides an excellent philosophical defense of Neoplatonism in general.
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Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
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Introduction
1. Beyond Being and Intelligibility
2. Being as Theophany
3. Goodness, Beauty, and Love
4. The Problem of Evil
5. The Hierarchy of Being
6. The Continuum of Cognition
7. Symbolism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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