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A proposito del ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥϹΕΩϹ di Epicuro: il XXI libro e un nuovo papiro (PHERC. 362 E 560)
No full textThe new reading of two subscriptiones in the Herculaneum papyri allows the author to identify in PHerc. 362 book XXI of Epicurus' Περὶ φύϲεωϲ and in PHerc. 560 a new book from the same treatise. This discovery confirms the existence in the Villa of a copy of the entire Epicurean work and of editions copied at different time
Les hétairies, l’opposition entre nature et loi et la question du cosmopolitisme chez Hippias
Full text linkCet article offre une analyse détaillée de la première partie du discours que Platon fait prononcer à Hippias dans le Protagoras (Platon, Protagoras, 337 c 5-e 2). Le but de cette analyse est de montrer la richesse des notions et des implications politiques du propos d’Hippias, qui se présente presque comme une sorte de manifeste des hétairies philosophiques du Vème siècle ; d’autre part, elle confirme la connaissance approfondie que Platon a de la sophistique, dont il est une de nos principales sources d’information. Notre analyse éclaircit le sens de l’antithèse nomos/physis chez Hippias, et etudie la valeur philosophique de chacun de ces termes ; nous reconstituons la conception hippienne de la loi positive, et précisons le sens du concept de parenté et ressemblance des sages, en montrant que ce dernier ne configure pas un cosmopolitisme fondé sur le concept d’une parenté universelle unissant entre eux les membre du genre humain. La conception d’Hippias – qui doit être comprise également à la lumière de son ontologie, exposée dans un passage important de l’Hippias majeur - configure plutôt une sorte de ‘cosmopolitisme aristocratique’, lié au concept d’hétairie philosophique, et suppose la reconnaissance de différences vérifiées et valorisées : par là, elle se distinque aussi bien de l’universalisme naturaliste d’Antiphon que du cosmopolitisme anthropologique des Stoïciens
Sulla necessità ipotetica delle sostanze naturali individuali in Aristotele
Full text linkAbstract- Through this critical essay the subject of aristotelian natural teleologism is discussed in the light of its relation with hypothetical necessity which characterizes the physical world. This kind of necessity according that the relation between the antecedent (A) and subsequent (C) is not reversible so that if A, C but not if C, A, seems better to illuminate the reason for a priority of final cause in living beings. In particularly, our reasoning on natural teleologism will analyze the 'substantial change' which shows par eccelence the global unfolding of organism as a result of ousia’s movement without any occurrence to a sort of final determinism. In facts, teleologism seems to keep together organism as a totality throught the time and not all his single characteristics which could be also the result of materialistic and (consequently deterministic) causes. The difference between mixis and genesis help us to stress these intrinsic properties of living beings, i. e. irreducibility, conditioned necessity and irreversibility. Thus, aristotelian lesson on teleology instead of going toward a deterministic finalism of life, induce us to reflect that life is not a deduction by the form and necessity doesn’t concern the goal as it’s summed in De generatione et corruptione II.11 337b 30-35 and in De partibus animalium 639b 21-30
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Full text linkApproches de la stylistique leibnizienne: l’Iconologia de Cesare Ripa et les exempla romanesques
Full text linkThis paper offers to examine both the contemporary approaches to the study of Leibniz philosophical style and shed light on how they share a common dependency on a conception of what “style” is, directly coming back from the romantic tradition. The article first focuses on the baroque fable with which Leibniz closes his Essays of Theodicy, in order to analyse the problems raised by the use of allegoric and symbolic repertoires – such as Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia – considered as privileged instruments to convert figures of speech into their denotative equivalent. The paper examines then the attempt, on behalf of certain commenters, to search for punctual correspondences between literary exempla in Leibniz writings and his theory on series rerum and possible worlds. It appears as a conclusion that the researcher could benefit from an alternative method of analysis pertaining to the literary stylistics
