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Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive : Avril 2023

Publié le 28 février 2023 par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

LEM/ EPHE

Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive

Avril 2023

Description et organisation

Vendredi 7 avril 2023, 16h-18h15.

Président de séance :
Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete (CNRS-LEM)

D’Orion à Platon : les aventures de l’âme dans deux mosaïques récemment découvertes à Pompéi

Dimitri El Murr (École Normale Supérieure) et Jean Trinquier (École Normale Supérieure) :

Deux nouvelles mosaïques à l’iconographie inédite ont été récemment découvertes à Pompéi, dans la maison dite « d’Orion ». Nous discuterons l’iconographie de ces mosaïques, ainsi que les interprétations qui en ont été proposées. Nous défendrons pour notre part une lecture platonisante « psychologique » de ces deux mosaïques.

Contact

Projet pluriannel de recherches dirigé par Luciana Soares Santoprete, Anna Van den Kerchove, George Karamanolis, Éric Crégheur et Dylan Burns.

In presentia : Institut protestant de théologie,
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Plotinus IV 7 (2) On the Immortality of the Soul: Studies on the Text and its Contexts

Publié le 27 octobre 2022 par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

Plotinus IV 7 (2) : On the Immortality of the Soul

Studies on the Text and its Contexts

Lorenzo Ferroni, Daniela Taormina (eds.), Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2022

Description

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.

(Text from the publisher)

Link

https://www.nomos-shop.de/academia/titel/plotinus-iv-7-2-on-the-immortality-of-the-soul-id-100251/

Leuven Colloquia on Ancient Platonism (LCAP)

Publié le 27 octobre 2022 par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

KU Leuven

Leuven Colloquia on Ancient Platonism (LCAP)

Description and organization

The Leuven Colloquia on Ancient Platonism (LCAP) is a lecture series on the history of ancient Platonism (from the Early Academy to Late Antiquity), traditionally an important field of study in Leuven. These lectures will be held on a monthly basis, starting in January 2022, hosted by the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy and De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy and will be given by leading specialists in the history of Platonism. Each year the general theme will be narrowed down through the selection of a specific topic on which the invitees will be asked to speak. For the academic year 2021/2022 (second term only) and 2022/2023 the chosen topic is ‘principle’ (archê).

4-6 pm, Kardinaal Mercierzaal.

All sessions will be accessible also remotely. For both in-person and remote participation, registration on Zoom is necessary. We will send out individual announcements for each talk, with the relevant Zoom link for registration.

Programme

17 October, Charlotte Murgier (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne): Principles of practical knowledge: Aristotle’s discussion with Plato

14 November, Wiebke Marie-Stock (Bonn/Notre Dame): Turn the mirror of your soul. Plotinus on how to affect memory

Contact

lcap@kuleuven.be

Link

https://hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/research/not-another-history-of-platonism/events/LCAP

Ennead II.4: On Matter

Publié le 27 octobre 2022 par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

Ennead II.4: On Matter

A. A. Long, Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2022

Description

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.

(Text from the publisher)

Link

https://www.eurospanbookstore.com/book/detail/plotinus-ennead-ii4/?k=9781733535762

Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive : Mai 2023

Publié le 27 octobre 2022 par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

LEM/ EPHE

Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive

Mai 2023

Description et organisation

Vendredi 26 mai 2023, 16h-18h15, via Zoom.

La vie intellectuelle de la fin de l’Antiquité est caractérisée par un fort intérêt porté aux « principes » (archai) : principes de la réalité, principes du monde, principes de la connaissance. Quelle que soit la façon dont on regroupe les intellectuels de la fin de l’Antiquité – polythéistes ou chrétiens, philosophes ou théologiens −, tous parlent, explicitement ou implicitement, des principes. Certains cherchent même activement à déterminer ce que sont les principes (par ex., Origène, Plotin, Porphyre, Damascius, les gnostiques, les Hermétistes, les théurgistes). Cette recherche est pour eux capitale, afin d’établir la manière dont la réalité est structurée, de réfléchir à la place des êtres humains dans le monde et aux puissances qui affectent leur vie, de penser dans quelle mesure nous sommes libres, comment nous pouvons atteindre la connaissance, ainsi qu’obtenir le bonheur ou le salut. La recherche des principes (métaphysiques ou théologiques) est ainsi un thème important en lui-même et pour la formation éthique. Le Programme des rencontres 2022-2023 du projet de recherche Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité tardive propose d’explorer cette thématique des « principes » (archai) dans le monde intellectuel de la fin de l’Antiquité. Il examinera différentes questions, telles que : comment les principes disent la réalité, comment ils expliquent les relations entre les mondes divin et humain et dans quelle mesure le bonheur et le salut sont possibles pour les humains étant donné la structure de la réalité.

Programme

Is Matter a Principle? Christian Authors from Hermogenes to Origen

Lenka Karfikova (Charles University Prague) :

Our study attempts to map the ideas of matter in the Christian authors of the 2nd- 3rd centuries (Hermogenes, Tatian, Theophilus of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria, Origen), which by no means included only the idea of “creation out of nothing” as it eventually became established for a long time.

The Critique of the Chaldean Oracles in the Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s ‘Parmenides’

Stefan Marinca (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) :

The so-called Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s ‘Parmenides’ often shows a strong polemical spirit. This applies especially to the fourth fragment of the Commentary (fol. IX–X) where the possibility of knowing the First Principle is debated, questioning at least two schools of thought: on the one hand, the Stoics and on the other hand, an “unnamed group of interpreters” of the Chaldean Oracles. My presentation examines the passage that recalls the Chaldean Oracles from two perspectives. After reviewing some hypotheses about the identity of these “unnamed interpreters” and the originality of their thesis, I will turn to the response of the commentator, who criticizes both the form of their transmission (by means of a revelation) and the doctrine itself. The second point of view is related to a formal and objective matter: the “unnamed interpreters” of the Oracles claim that the Father “unifies in his simplicity” his own Power and Intellect. This phrase is also found in the ‘common source’ used by the Latin theologian Marius Victorinus and the Coptic-Gnostic apocalypse Zostrianos (NHC VIII,1), although here it indicates how the One is configured according to the triad Existence-Life-Blessedness. The final part of my presentation examines some hypotheses concerning the presence of this formula in both the Anonymous Commentary and the ‘common source’, by making some references to the anti-Gnostic debate promoted by the school of Plotinus.

Contact

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Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive : Avril 2023

Publié le 27 octobre 2022 par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

LEM/ EPHE

Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive

Avril 2023

Description et organisation

Vendredi 14 avril 2023, 16h-18h15, via Zoom.

Programme

Middle Platonic Theories of Principles and the Valentinian Grande Notice in Irenaeus of Lyon

Christoph Markschies (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) :

In Irenaeus’ Adversus Haereses an extoteric sketch of a group of so called “Valentinian Gnostics” is preserved, probably not written by Ptolemy, a freelanced Christian teacher in Rome, but by one or some of his pupils. This sketch contains a theory of principles (in the form of a myth which one can compare to myths in Platonic texts. After having discussed the question which esoteric theory of principles is behind the esoteric myth we will discuss the question how this “Valentinian” theory of principles is related to contemporary Middle Platonic theories. We will observe a certain tendency of these Christians to demonstrate their independence and at the same time an interest to recognized by Platonists as part of a contemporary dialogue on principals.

Harmonics, Theurgy and Syncretism in the De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii of Martianus Capella

Jay Bregman (University of Maine)

In his Neoplatonic allegory of the ascent of the human soul to the noetic realm, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, Martianus Capella follows the polyvalent allegorical principles of Porphyry and the Theurgic Neoplatonists for whom gods and myths, disturbing on the surface, esoterically represent noetic forms and processes. Mercury and Philology symbolize the divine and human intellect and their marriage. Martianus uniquely applies Greek harmonic principles and intervals to the steps of Philology’s ascent through the spheres. The “natural music” in the
grove of Apollo suggests the theurgic presence of the god. Harmony’s discourse on Greek music covers the modes and categories of Greek music. Martianus allegorical principles accord with the emperor Julian’s theology. His use of musical principles displays his grasp of theurgic and harmonic principles.

Contact

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Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive : Décembre 2022

Publié le 27 octobre 2022 par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

LEM/ EPHE

Les platonismes de l’Antiquité tardive

Décembre 2022

Description et organisation

Vendredi, 9 décembre 2022, 9h-11h15, via Zoom.

Programme

Contesting the Three-Principle Systems of the Refutation of All Heresies (Elenchos)

David Litwa (Australian Catholic University)

Since the 1960s, scholars have been accustomed to categorize several groups of the Sondergut in the Refutation of All Heresies as “three-principle systems.” These groups include the Naassenes, Peratai, Simonians, Sethians, Doketai, and Monoimus. The purpose of this paper is to show how this classification generally reinscribes the heresiological tendencies of the author of the Refutation. I offer a fresh reading of these Sondergut sources with an eye to their variety and the specifics of their theology. In the end, although scholars can fruitfully speak of “principles” when referring to the theology of these groups, the principles were not always or even frequently triadic.

Une aporie contre les gnostiques ? La tension entre les principes éthico-cosmologiques chez Plotin et ses implications antignostiques

Camille Guigon (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)

Dans les traités 6 (IV, 8) et 10 (V, 1), Plotin se confronte à un problème redoutable à la fois pour son système et pour la pensée platonicienne en général : l’âme vient-elle dans un corps pour une raison éthique ou pour une raison cosmologique ? Dans le cas de l’éthique, l’âme descend dans le corps car elle est incapable de maintenir sa contemplation des formes intelligibles. Mais dans le cas de la cosmologie, l’âme vient dans le sensible car elle doit animer les corps et faire naître les espèces vivantes déjà présentes dans l’intelligible. Si Platon ne traite pas ces questions, Plotin tente de les résoudre. Or, il ne parvient pas à atteindre son objectif. C’est dans le cadre de cet échec qu’interviennent ses adversaires gnostiques. Dans cette présentation, nous montrerons que les textes gnostiques qui nous sont parvenus, apportent des solutions efficaces à la tension entre les principes éthico-cosmologiques, ce que Plotin ne parvient pas à faire. Celui-ci va cependant riposter, en particulier dans le Traité 33 (II, 9), en faisant de cette tension, qu’il ne résout pas, une arme. Paradoxalement, c’est parce qu’il est bien plus respectueux de Platon que les gnostiques qu’il conserve l’aporie. Afin de démontrer comment Plotin a utilisé l’aporie éthico-cosmologique contre les gnostiques, nous montrerons d’abord qu’il a échoué à la résoudre. Puis nous donnerons un aperçu de la réponse gnostique à ce problème et enfin, nous verrons comment Plotin insère l’aporie dans son argumentation philosophique contre les gnostiques.

Contact

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Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive : Cycle de conférences 2022-2023

Publié le 10 octobre 2022 par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

LEM/EPHE

Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive

Cycle de conférences 2022-2023

Description et organisation

English version

The intellectual life of late antiquity is characterized by a strong concern with principles (archai): principles of reality, principles of the world, principles of knowledge. Regardless of how one groups intellectuals in late antiquity— into pagans and Christians, philosophers and theologians—they all speak about principles explicitly or implicitly and some of them actively seek to establish what the principles are (e.g., Plotinus, Porphyry, Origen, Damascius, Gnostics, Hermeticists, theurgists). They clearly deem the project of principles to be crucial for establishing how reality is structured, what the place of humans in the world is, what powers affect our lives, how free are we, how we can attain knowledge, and how we can attain happiness or salvation. The search for principles (understood as metaphysical or theological) is then an important issue both of itself and also for shaping ethics. The series of talks in the academic year 2022-2023 of the research project The Platonisms of the Late Antiquity will explore this topic of “principles” (archai) in its broad application in the intellectual world of late antiquity and will examine questions such as how principles account for reality, how principles explain the interaction between the divine and the human world, and how human happiness and salvation is possible given the structure of reality.

Versão em português

O projeto de pesquisa « Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive : interactions philosophiques et religieuses » (Platonismos da Antiguidade Tardia: interações filosóficas e religiosas) tem por objetivo criar um espaço de encontro regular permitindo a colaboração de pesquisadores e pesquisadoras trabalhando nas áreas de história da filosofia e história das religiões. Esse projeto visa estudar as trocas entre os pensamentos filosóficos, filosófico-religiosos e religiosos da época do Império romano e da Antiguidade tardia a fim de melhor compreender tanto seu impacto sobre a emergência e a construção das filosofias neoplatônicas, quanto identificar as fontes filosóficas dos textos gnósticos, herméticos e dos Oráculos caldeus. Trata-se da continuação de um projeto colaborativo precedente, « Plotin et les gnostiques » (Plotino e os gnósticos), alargando o seu campo de pesquisa quanto à cronologia (antes e depois de Plotino) e quanto aos corpus estudados (médio platonismo, hermetismo, etc.), e está em ligação direta com a temática da base de dados https://platonismes.huma-num.fr/

Contact

Projet pluriannel de recherches dirigé par Luciana Soares Santoprete, Anna Van den Kerchove, George Karamanolis, Éric Crégheur et Dylan Burns / Research project directed by Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete, Anna Van den Kerchove, George Karamanolis, Éric Crégheur and Dylan Burns.

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From the Alien to the Alone: A Study of Soul in Plotinus

Publié le 31 juillet 2022 par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

From the Alien to the Alone

A Study of Soul in Plotinus

Gary M. Gutler, Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2022

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.

Link

https://www.cuapress.org/9780813234519/from-the-alien-to-the-alone/

Intellect and the Soul in Alexandrian Neoplatonism

Publié le 14 juin 2022 par Luciana Santoprete et Giulia Miraglia

Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Intellect and the Soul in Alexandrian Neoplatonism

Description

“Between Athens & Alexandria. Platonism, 3rd-7th c. CE” studies the relationship between the Neoplatonic Schools of Athens and Alexandria, with a special focus on later Neoplatonic developments on, and criticisms to, Plotinus. The project is hosted by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (IMS-FORTH), based in Rethymno, Crete, in collaboration with the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies (ACHS) of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It is supported by the A. S. Onassis Foundation.

The workshop will take place in a hybrid format, in the Conference Room (Kalos Ontas) of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, and via Zoom.

For attending via Zoom, registration is required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdemprDMoGdOL5b8UdSZVEwQSFxaKUNvt

(Text from the organizers)

Programme

Monday 20th June

9:30 Welcome

Gelina Harlaftis (IMS-FORTH Director & University of Crete), Mark Kyriakos (ΒΑΑCHS), Irini-Fotini Viltanioti (University of Crete & IMS-FORTH)

10:00-11:30 Paul Kalligas (Director of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi & National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) “Plotinus on Bringing Order to the Universe.” Chair: Konstantinos Spanoudakis (Vice Rector, University of Crete)

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:30 Dimitrios Vasilakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) “Towards a Dialectical Relation Between Form and Content: Reading Plotinus’ Ennead III 5 via the Phaedrus?” Chair: Zacharoula Petraki (University of Crete)

13:30-15:30 Lunch

15:30-17:00 Irini-Fotini Viltanioti (University of Crete & IMS-FORTH) “Plotinus on Plato’s Timaeus 90 a.” Chair: Mark Edwards (University of Oxford)

17.30 Guided Tour of the Archaeological Museum of Rethymno

20:00 Dinner

Tuesday 21st June

10:00-11.30 Pantelis Golitsis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) “From Alexandria to Athens: What Damascius Learned from Ammonius.” Chair: Melina Tamiolaki (University of Crete & IMS-FORTH)

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:30 Mark Edwards (University of Oxford) “Nous in Philoponus.” Chair: Paul Kalligas (Director of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi & National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

14:00 Lunch (at one’s own expense)

Contact

Irini-Fotini Viltanioti (University of Crete & IMS-FORTH)

Mark Kyriakos (BA-ACHS)

Aya Samir (BA-ACHS)

viltanioti@uoc.gr

Link

http://athens-alexandria.ims.forth.gr/?p=1051