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Taormina. A Földközi- tenger gyöngyszemének történelme
No full textDolgozatomban Taormina történelmét ismertetem a kezdetektől napjainkig, részletesebben kitérve a görög, római, arab, normann, spanyol megszállásra.BKRomanisztika-OlaszBSc/B
Plotinus and Epicurus: Matter, perception, pleasure, eds. (a cura di) A. Longo and D.P. Taormina, Cambridge , Cambridge University Press 2016
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Plotin IV. 7 (2) : la numérotation marginale
No full textTreatise IV 7 (2) is one of the 17 texts by Plotinus for which the manuscript tradition presents, in the text’s margins, a Greek numbering for which its significance is, at first sight, unclear. P. Henry suggested that it is a sort of ‘note marker’ referring to Plotinian words and phrases explained by Porphyry in one of his commentaries on the Enneads. On the ground of a new analysis of these marginal annotations, we take up here Henry’s hypothesis and suggest that we may see in this numbering a trace of a chapter division of the treatise far from the Ficinian one modern scholars are accustomed to referring to
Plotinus, Ennead IV 7 (2), On the Immortality of the Soul. A Scholastic Treatise? New Perspectives of Interdisciplinary Research
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Il corpo, la luce e l'insieme dei due. Una proposta esegetica di Plotino, enn. I 1 [53], 6, 14-7, 6
No full textIn enn. I 1 [53], 6, 14–7, 6, Plotinus describes the coming to be of the living being capable of feeling and experiencing passions, and identifies its constitution in the connection of three factors: (a) a transcendent soul; (b) „something like light” which proceeds from the transcendent soul; (c) a body. It is the συναμφότερον that feels – he states – „because such a soul [i.e. the transcendent soul], starting from such a body and from something like a light given by it, produces the nature of the living as something else [...]”. The nature of the body mentioned here, however, appears particularly problematic: is it a body which already possesses an elementary form of life received by the soul of the cosmos, as a widespread interpretation would have it, or is it made alive when the soul gives its light to it?
Through an analysis of the passage in the light of the similar text of VI 4 [22], 15, 8–18, the second option is proposed here: before being illuminated by „something like light”, this body has only received the formal reasons that proceed from the soul of the cosmos and consequently has a morphological structure. Although it cannot be said to be lifeless like a piece of wood, which is „only body”, it is not endowed with multiple movements and does not perform vital functions. It has an „aptitude” to receive life and it is only when the soul gives its light to it that it becomes alive, fulfills the primary functions to keep itself alive, and experiences passions and basic sensations
“What is known through sense perception is an image”. Plotinus tr. 32 (V 5) 1.12-19: an anti-Epicurean argument?
No full textThe contribution provides a very detailed analysis of the terms and concepts Plotinus employs in a section from the first chapter of treatise 32, showing how these consistently contribute to outlining the epistemological position upheld by Epicurus and rejected by Plotinus. Taormina’s contribution further engages with the debate raging in the field of Plotinian studies on whether the philosopher espoused an “internalist” conception of sense perception or an “externalist” one, suggesting the former is the case and illustrating what this entails
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