Cosmogonie et eschatologie

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Cosmogonie et eschatologie

Articulations conceptuelles du système religieux zoroastrien

Timus M., Paris: Vrin, 2015

Description

Le volume réunit sept études portant sur deux thèmes majeurs: la cosmogonie et l’eschatologie zoroastriennes. L’historiographie critique et l’enquête philologique de la littérature exégétique en moyen-perse sont les méthodes par lesquelles l’auteur met en avant la manière dont ces deux anciens concepts, spécifiques aussi à la théologie chrétienne, sont livrés à l’histoire des religions. Un des enjeux du livre est d’identifier et d’illustrer les mécanismes spécifiques du système religieux zoroastrien, à savoir, en particulier, la symétrie entre le commencement et la fin du monde. Les Addenda réunissent une série de documents inédits importants pour l’histoire des études zoroastriennes en France. The book includes seven studies that use historiographical and philological methods to explore the historical and religious aspects of Zoroastrian cosmogony and eschatology. It undertakes a close reading of Middle Persian literature to identify and illustrate specific aspects of this religious system, such as the symmetry between the beginning and the end of the world. The author reads the historiography of Iranian studies, paying special attention to the French scholarship on this topic, in order to show how the modern history of religions transformed Christian theological concepts in its analysis of the Zoroastrian religion. The Addenda include several unpublished documents, relevant for the history of Zoroastrian studies in France.

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Table of contents

Préambule

Table des matières

Bibliographie

Introduction

COSMOGONIE

Chapitre I. L’exégèe européenne de la cosmogonie zoroastrienne

  1. Enjeux de la modernité dans l’étude de l’antiquité. Le manichéisme et le zoroastrisme aux 17e-18e s.
  2. Anquetil Duperron (1731-1805) et ses contemporains

Entre creatio ex nihilo et « système des émanations »

La postérité des catégories théologiques d’Anquetil-Duperron

  1. Eugène Burnouf (1801-1852)

La « création » comme « donation »

Le schéma cosmogonique et le calendrier

  1. Marc Josephus MŸller (1809-1874)

Le premier commentaire autour du Bundahišn (la partie introductive)

Le zoroastrisme entre mazdéisme et zurvanisme

Chapitre II. Le récit cosmogonique mazdéen

  1. La diversité historico-religieuse zoroastrienne

Les modéles cosmogoniques selon le Bundahišn

  1. L’antécédent biblique ?

James Darmesteter (1849-1894) le traditionnaliste

La « chaînes cosmogoniques » selon l’Avesta

Les « chaînes cosmogoniques » selon le Bundahišn

  1. La structure ternaire de la cosmogonie mazdéenne

Conséquence : l’intégralité du Bundahišn

Chapitre III. Expressions spécifiques du dualisme zoroastrien.

La secousse

  1. Le dualisme selon ses expressions spécifiques
  2. Entre apologétique et polémique
  3. L’ambivalence cosmogonique : construction et destruction

La gestation du monde

La naissance de la montagne mythique

  1. Les mots et les gestes. Disputes, coutumes funéraires
  2. Remarques finales

Chapitre IV. Formes, idées, vêtements

  1. Platonisme, néo-platonisme, néo-mazdéisme, et autres
  2. Mary Boyce. De l’iconoclasme en terre mazdéenne ?
  3. Les « formes» entre cosmogonie et eschatologie
  4. Les vêtements

ESCHATOLOGIE

Chapitre V. Brève histoire d’un vieux débat

  1. Préambule
  2. Lire et relire Théopompe
  3. Autour desMémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions au 18e  siècle

L’abbé Fenel (1695-1753). La résurrection chez les ‘Mages’

L’abbé Foucher (1704-1778). Le caractère « corporel » de la résurrection

  1. La confrontation avec les communautés et les textes zoroastriens

A.H. Anquetil Duperron. Les premiers principes d’une approche historico-religieuse

Eugène Burnouf. Le dogme de la résurrection – une tradition avec ruptures ?

  1. Mise au point partielle

Chapitre VI. L’antichambre de la rénovation

  1. Le sommeil

Le sommeil, le rêve, les légendes de fondation

Le « sommeil » – le problème philologique

La mythologie cosmogonique du sommeil

Ouverture vers la perspective eschatologique

  1. Le réveil

« L’indifférence transcendante » et la chaîne des immortels

À quoi bon « ressusciter » les immortels ?

Autour du verbe hangēxtan, hangēz-

  1. Remarques finales

Chapitre VII. Une balance entre le ciel et la terre

  1. La pesée avec et hormis le nom de la balance. Bref excursus historiographique
  2. Unités de mesure, poids. Compter, peser
  3. Cérémonie, dons, balance
  4. L’équilibre du monde. L’eau entre la terre et le ciel
  5. Mise au point

Conclusions

Addenda

  1. Un texte inédit d’Eugène Burnouf
  2. Choix de lettres inédites : Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, Eugène Burnouf, James Darmesteter

Index

Lien

http://www.vrin.fr/book.php?code=9782910640408

Platonisme et néoplatonisme

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
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

From the Old Academy to Later Neo-Platonism: Studies in the History of Platonic Thought

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

From the Old Academy to Later Neo-Platonism

Studies in the History of Platonic Thought

Harold Tarrant, London: Routledge, 2010

Description

This volume collects a set of papers on ancient Platonism that span the nine centuries between Plato himself and his commentator Olympiodorus in the 6th century, many of them less easy to obtain. Much of the work is at the intersection of philosophy and literature, and a recurrent aim is to challenge existing orthodoxies and to suggest alternatives. Two further related aims are to encourage the rereading of Plato in the light of the later tradition, and the tradition in the light of influential passages of Plato. The articles are grouped here in three sections, dealing first with Socrates, Plato and the Old Academy, then with the Platonic revival and the 2nd century AD, and finally with later Neoplatonism.

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Table of contents

Preface

Part I Socrates, Plato, and the Old Academy: Midwifery and the Clouds;

The Hippias Major and Socratic theories of pleasure;

The composition of Plato’s Gorgias;

Plato’s Euthydemus and the two faces of Socrates;

Chronology and narrative apparatus in Plato’s dialogues;

Orality and Plato’s narrative dialogues;

Plato, prejudice, and the mature-age student in antiquity;

Myth as a tool of persuasion in Plato;

Review of Leonardo Tarrant, Speusippus of Athens.

Part II The Platonic Revival and the 2nd Century AD: Agreement and the self-evident in Philo of Larissa;

The date of anon. In Theaetetum;

Middle Platonism and the 7th Epistle;

Logos and the development of Middle Platonism;

Platonic interpretation in Aulus Gellius; Numenius Fr. 13 and Plato’s Timaeus;

Platonism before Plato: tracing a philosophy to ever earlier roots;

The proximity of philosophy and medicine in the age of Galen;

Shadows of justice in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.

Part III Later Platonism: The Gorgias and the demiurge;

More on Zeno’s Forty Logoi;

Olympiodorus and history;

Restoring Olympiodorus’ syllogistic;

Politike Eudaimonia: Olympiodorus on Plato’s Republic;

Indexes

Link

https://www.routledge.com/From-the-Old-Academy-to-Later-Neo-Platonism-Studies-in-the-History-of-Platonic/Tarrant/p/book/9781409408284

Plotinus on the Soul

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Plotinus on the Soul

Damian Caluori, Texas: Trinity University, 2015, 222 p.

Description

Plotinus on the Soul is a study of Plotinus’ psychology, which is arguably the most sophisticated Platonist theory of the soul in antiquity. Plotinus offers a Platonist response to Aristotelian and Stoic conceptions of the soul that is at the same time an innovative interpretation of Plato’s Timaeus. He considers the notion of the soul to be crucial for explaining the rational order of the world. To this end, he discusses not only different types of individual soul (such as the souls of the stars, and human and animal souls) but also an entity that he was the first to introduce into philosophy: the so-called hypostasis Soul. This is the first study to provide a detailed explanation of this entity, but it also discusses the other types of soul, with an emphasis on the human soul, and explains Plotinus’ original views on rational thought and its relation to experience.

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Table of contents

Preface and ackmowledgements

Glossary

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Unity and creation: why Plotinus introduced the hypostasis soul

Chapter 2 – The hypostasis Soul

Chapter 3 – The hypostasis Soul and its relation to individual souls

Chapter 4 – The individual soul in the intelligible and in the sensible world

Chapter 5 – Divine individual souls

Chapter 6 – The human soul: its descent and its confusion in the sensible world

Chapter 7 – The human soul: the higher and the lower soul

Chapter 8 – The soul and the body

Bibliography

Indices

Index locorum

Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/plotinus-on-the-soul/E0A33B766C1CD8E4FDB114E13F1B8FF1#:~:text=Plotinus%20on%20the%20Soul%20is,innovative%20interpretation%20of%20Plato’s%20Timaeus.

The Gnostic Society Library

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
The Gnosis Archive

The Gnostic Society Library

 

Description and organization

The Gnostic Society Library (a section of The Gnosis Archive), contains a vast collection of primary documents relating to the Gnostic tradition as well as a selection of in-depth audio lectures and brief archive notes designed to orient study of the documents, their sources, and the religious tradition they represent.  (See theOverview of the Library Collection, below.)

The library includes over a thousand documents (four gigabytes of material) related to the Gnostic tradition, including all major Gnostic writings and anti-Gnostic patristic texts.  Using the Archive Search function, students and researches can easily find just about any anything relating to the Gnostic tradition.

Lectures provided in the library are from the audio archives of The Gnostic Society in Los Angeles and BC Recordings; they are presented in MP3 format or an older RealAudio format and run about 75 minutes in length. As you visit the library, set aside time to listen to a lecture. Remember to also visit the Gnostic Society Bookstore for a collection of the best current works on Gnosis and Gnosticism.

Recently updated in the Library:

The Nag Hammadi Library collection received a major update in May 2015. Several prominent scholars have contributed editions of their authoritative translations to our library collection. Over twenty of these new translations have now been added to the online collection. We are especially grateful for the assistance and contributions of Dr. Willis Barnstone, Dr. John Turner, Dr. Stevan Davies, and the late Dr. Marvin Meyer. This resource in the Gnostic Society library receives a few million unique visits each year and is referenced by many academic courses which survey the Gnostic tradition, as well as by readers from all over the world.

(Text by the organizers)

Link

http://gnosis.org/library.html

Cosa è un’idea? L’intelligenza nell’ultimo Platone

Publié le par Luciana Soares

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/

Il Platonismo

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Il Platonismo

Mauro Bonazzi, Torino: Einaudi, 2015

Descrizione

Tutti concordano circa l’importanza di Platone, ma quasi nessuno è pronto a riconoscere che la conoscenza che ne abbiamo è mediata da secoli di interpretazioni, dibattiti, polemiche. Platone non era un platonico, ha osservato Hans-Georg Gadamer: ma per capire Platone non si può prescindere dai suoi eredi. Colmando per la prima volta questa lacuna, il libro di Mauro Bonazzi propone una ricostruzione dettagliata della storia millenaria del platonismo antico, dalla fondazione dell’Academia nel 380 a.C. alla chiusura della scuola neoplatonica di Atene nel 529 d.C., quando gli ultimi neoplatonici si avventurarono oltre i confini dell’impero romano, nella speranza illusoria di trovare in Persia un governo sensibile alla filosofia. Di contro allo stereotipo di una filosofia perenne che si trasmette identica di generazione in generazione, il lettore scoprirà cosí che a caratterizzare il platonismo antico fu invece una discorde polifonia: una volontà instancabile di seguire le pieghe dei dialoghi e una capacità inesausta di trovare nuove soluzioni nel tentativo di dare conto della ricchezza di Platone in tutta la sua complessità. Da Speusippo a Cicerone, da Carneade a Plotino, scettiche o metafisiche, politiche o epistemologiche, le vicende del platonismo costituiscono una pagina memorabile nel lungo cammino della filosofia antica.

(Testo della casa editrice)

Link

https://www.einaudi.it/catalogo-libri/filosofia/filosofia-antica/il-platonismo-mauro-bonazzi-9788806216894/

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism

P. Remes and S. Slaveva-Griffin (ed), London: Routledge, 2015

Descrizione

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in ancient philosophy. An international team of scholars situates and re-evaluates Neoplatonism within the history of ancient philosophy and thought, and explores its influence on philosophical and religious schools worldwide. Over thirty chapters are divided into seven clear parts:

  • (Re)sources, instruction and interaction
  • Methods and Styles of Exegesis
  • Metaphysics and Metaphysical Perspectives
  • Language, Knowledge, Soul, and Self
  • Nature: Physics, Medicine and Biology
  • Ethics, Political Theory and Aesthetics
  • The legacy of Neoplatonism.

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is a major reference source for all students and scholars in Neoplatonism and ancient philosophy, as well as researchers in the philosophy of science, ethics, aesthetics and religion.

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Table of contents

Part 1: (Re)sources, instruction and interaction

Introduction

1. Platonist Curricula and their Influence – Harold Tarrant

2. The Alexandrian Classrooms Excavated and Sixth-Century Philosophy Teaching – Richard Sorabji

3. Middle Platonism and its Relation to Stoicism and the Peripatetic Tradition – Gretchen Reydams-Schils and Franco Ferrari

4. Plotinus and the Gnostics – John Turner

5. Plotinus and the Orient – Vishwa Adluri

Part 2: Methods and Styles of Exegesis

Introduction

6. Aristotelian Commentary Tradition – Han Baltussen

7. The Non-Commentary Tradition – Andrew Smith

8. Plotinus’ Style and Argument – Luc Brisson

9. Proclus’ Geometrical Method – Marije Martijn

Part 3: Metaphysics and Metaphysical Perspectives

Introduction

10. Metaphysics: The Origin of Becoming and the Resolution of Ignorance – Sara Ahbel-Rappe

11. The Metaphysics of the One – Jens Halfwassen

12. Number in the Metaphysical Landscape – Svetla Slaveva-Griffin

13. Substance – Riccardo Chiaradonna

14. Matter and Evil in the Neoplatonic Tradition – Jean-Marc Narbonne

Part 4: Language, Knowledge, Soul, and Self

Introduction

15. The Neoplatonists on Language and Philosophy – Robbert van den Berg

16. Neoplatonic Epistemology – Lloyd Gerson

17. Iamblichus on Soul – John Finamore

18. From Alexander of Aphrodisias to Plotinus – Frederic Schroeder

19. Metaphysics of Soul and Self in Plotinus – Gwenaëlle Aubry

20. Perceptual Awareness in the Ancient Commentators – Peter Lautner

Part 5: Nature: Physics, Medicine and Biology

Introduction

21. Physics and Metaphysics – Alessandro Linguiti

22. Neoplatonism and Medicine – James Wilberding

23. Humans, Other Animals, Plants and the Question of the Good – Kevin Corrigan

Part 6: Ethics, Political Theory and Aesthetics

Introduction

24. Plotinus on Metaphysics and Morality – Suzanne Stern-Gillet

25. Plotinus on Founding Freedom in Ennead VI.8[39] – Bernard Collette-Dučić

26. Freedom, Providence and Fate – Peter Adamson

27. Action, Reasoning and the Highest Good – Pauliina Remes

28. Political Theory – Dominic O’Meara

29. Plotinus’ Aesthetics – Panayiota Vassilopoulou

Part 7: Legacy

Introduction

30. Neoplatonism and Christianity – Dermot Moran

31. Neoplatonism and Christianity in Late Antiquity – Dimitar Y. Dimitrov

32. Islamic and Jewish Neoplatonisms – Sarah Pessin.

Index

Link

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Neoplatonism/Slaveva-Griffin-Remes/p/book/9781138573963

Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity

Shifting Identities – Creating Change 

Birgitte Secher Bøgh (Editor), Peter Lang Verlag, 2014

Description

For decades, Arthur D. Nock’s famous definition of conversion and his distinction between conversion and adhesion have greatly influenced our understanding of individual religious transformation in the ancient world. The articles in this volume – originally presented as papers at the conference Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity (Ebeltoft, Denmark, December 2012) – aim to nuance this understanding. They do so by exploring different facets of these two phenomena in a wide range of religions in their own context and from new theoretical and empirical perspectives. The result is a compilation of many new insights into ancient initiation and conversion as well as their definitions and characteristics.

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Table of contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Theme 1. The choice: reasons, motivations, and results.

Becoming Christian in Carthage in the Age of Tertullian

Conversion in the oldest Apocryphal Acts

Theme 2. Agency and agents: The context of decision.

Ontological Conversion: A Description and Analysis of Two Case Studies from Tertullian’s De Baptismo and Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis

Agents of Apostasy, Delegates of Disaffiliation

Theme 3. The change: the nature of reorientation.

‘The Devil is in the Details’. Hellenistic Mystery Initiation Rites: Bridge-Burning or Bridge-Building?

Conversion, Conflict, and the Drama of Social Reproduction: Narratives of Filial Resistance in Early Christianity and Modern Britain

There and Back Again: Temporary Immortality in the Mithras Liturgy

Theme 4. Education: instructing and guiding the convert.

The Role of Religious Education in six of the Pagan Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Period

Educating a Mithraist

Observations on Late Antique Rabbinic Sources on Instruction of Would-Be Converts

The Role of Philosophy and Education in Apologists’ Conversion to Christianity: The Case of Justin and Tatian

General Index

Index Locorum

Link

https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050447

The Enneads of Plotinus: A Commentary, Volume 1

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Enneads of Plotinus

A Commentary, Volume 1

Paul Kalligas, Elizabeth Key Fowden and Nicolas Pilavachi (trs.), New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2014

Description

This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the first three of the six Enneads, as well as Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus, a document in which Plotinus’s student—the collector and arranger of the Enneads—introduces the philosopher and his work. A landmark contribution to modern Plotinus scholarship, Paul Kalligas’s commentary is the most detailed and extensive ever written for the whole of the Enneads. For each of the treatises in the first three Enneads, Kalligas provides a brief introduction that presents the philosophical background against which Plotinus’s contribution can be assessed; a synopsis giving the main lines and the articulation of the argument; and a running commentary placing Plotinus’s thought in its intellectual context and making evident the systematic association of its various parts with each other.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Preface to the English Edition – Paul Kalligas

Translator’s Preface – Nicolas Pilavachi

Main Abbreviations

Porphyry: On the Life of Plotinus and the Order of His Books

Plotinus: First Ennead

Second Ennead

Third Ennead

List of Variant Readings

Key to the Chronological Order of Plotinus’ Treatises

Suggested Further Readings on Individual Treatises

Figures

Index of Passages Cited With Their Abbreviations and Modern Editors

Link

http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/he-enneads-of-plotinus-a-commentary-volume-1/