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Boéthos de Sidon – Exégète d’Aristote et philosophe
No full textQuesto libro contiene la prima raccolta di frammenti, in greco e arabo, del commentatore peripatetico Boeto di Sidone (I secolo a.C.), provvista di traduzione francese e di estesi saggi di commento. Sulla base di oltre cinquanta testi trasmessi, Riccardo Chiaradonna e Marwan Rashed ricostruiscono l'interpretazione di Aristotele sviluppata da Boeto, fondata sull'interpretazione delle Categorie e degli Analitici Primi e sul confronto critico rispetto alle tradizioni platonica e stoica.The volume provides the first collection of (Greek and Arabic) fragments of the Peripatetic philosopher Boethos of Sidon (1st century BC), with French translation and an extensive commentary essays
La nuova edizione del De generatione et corruptione aristotelico
No full textDiscussione storico tradizionale e critico filologica (Martinelli Tempesta), nonché filosofica (Chiaradonna) in margine alla nuova edizione del De generatione et corruptione curata da Marwan Rashed e al suo volume sulla tradizione testuale del medesimo trattato
Before and After the Commentators: An Essay in Periodization.
No full textL'articolo considera il significato storico e filosofico dei commentatori neoplatonici di Aristotele. Gli autori situano il recente Sourcebook sui commentatori edito da Richard Sorbji in un contesto più ampio, che include il contributo dei commentatori nella formazione della filosofia tardo-antica e la loro posterità nella tradizione filosofica islamica. Dopo una sezione introduttiva (1) sullo stato attuale della ricerca in questo ambito, gli autori affrontano i temi seguenti: (2) Plotino, i commentatori e lo sviluppo del pensiero tardo antico; (3) il Sourcebook e la filosofia islamica. Riccardo Chiaradonna è co-autore della sezione (1) e autore della sezione (2), dove la ricezione dei trattati di scuola aristotelici è presentata come una caratteristica fondamentale nella transizione dalla filosofia post-ellenistica a quella tardo-antica. Plotino ha un ruolo cruciale in questo processo e l'assimilazione neoplatonica dei trattati di Aristotele non avrebbe avuto luoro senza il suo contributo.This article considers the historical and philosophical significance of the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle. The authors set Richard Sorabji's recent Sourcebook on the commentators within a wider backgroung, which covers the commentators' contribution in the shaping of late antique philosophy and their posterity in the Islamic philosophical tradition. After an introductory section (1) regarding the current status of research in this area, the authors tackle the following issues: (2) Plotinus, the commentators and the development of late antique thought; (3) the Sourcebook and Islamic Philosophy. Riccardo Chiaradonna is co-author of section (1) and author of section (2), where the reception of Aristotle's school treatises is set out as a key feature in the transition from Post Hellenistic to Late Antique philosophy. Plotinus has a pivotal position in this process and the Neoplatonic incorporation of Aristotle's treatises would have not taken place without Plotinus' contribution
Aristotle’s Categories from Plotinus to Iamblichus
No full textThis article focuses on the reception of Aristotle’s Categories by the first three representatives of Greek Neoplatonism: Plotinus (204/205–270 CE), Porphyry (ca. 234–ca. 305 CE), Iamblichus (ca. 242–ca. 325 CE). The first section argues that Plotinus’ acquaintance with Aristotle’s treatises marked a fresh start vis-à-vis the previous Platonist tradition. Aristotle’s views, arguments and vocabulary are ubiquitous in Plotinus writings (the Enneads) and they must be considered an essential part of his philosophical project. Plotinus, however, does not share some of Aristotle’s key theories and is critical of them. The second section focuses on Plotinus’ discussion of Aristotle’s Categories in the tripartite treatise On the Genera of Being (6.1–3). There he rejects the Peripatetic division into ten categories as providing an incomplete account of the genera of being that unduly omits “those which are most authentically beings”, i.e. Plato’s separate Forms. While drawing on earlier Platonist objections to Aristotle, Plotinus’ approach is original insofar as he criticizes Aristotle and his followers not only for omitting intelligible beings in the division of categories, but also for being unable, for this very reason, to work out an adequate division of sensible beings themselves. The third section is devoted to Porphyry, a student of Plotinus’ and the editor of his works. Porphyry worked intensively on Aristotle’s Categories, which he regarded as an introduction not only to logic, but to philosophy as a whole. Unlike Plotinus, Porphyry aimed to integrate Aristotle into Platonism and his engagement with the Categories was a key part of his project after Plotinus’ in-depth criticism. Porphyry’s approach is connected to his view of the subject-matter of the Categories, which he sees as focusing on words insofar as they signify beings, and not on beings as such. The fourth section focuses on some parallels between Plotinus’ Genera of Beings and Porphyry’s works, which may reflect the debate within Plotinus’ school. The fifth section focuses on Iamblichus of Chalcis. Both in theology and in the interpretation of Aristotle’s Categories, Iamblichus aimed to both continue and supplant Porphyry’s work. While Plotinus criticizes Aristotle’s categories for omitting intelligible beings, and while Porphyry accepts Aristotle’s categories insofar as they focus on words signifying sensible things, Iamblichus incorporates his Neoplatonist and Pythagorizing metaphysics into the interpretation of the Categories
Compte rendu de Riccardo CHIARADONNA (éd.), "Studi sull'anima in Plotino"
No full textGavray Marc-Antoine. Studi sull'anima in Plotino, a cura di Riccardo Chiaradonna. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 105, n°1-2, 2007. pp. 262-266
Logica e teologia nel primo neoplatonismo A proposito di Anon., In Parm. XI 5-19 e Iambl., Risposta a Porfirio [De Mysteriis] I, 4
No full textAccording to the anonymous commentator on Plato’s Parmenides the One-being can (under certain
conditions) be thought to participate in the first One above being (In Parm., XI-XII). The commentator offers
two explanations of this fact, the first of which (In Parm., XI, 5-19) is closely reminiscent of the Peripatetic
doctrine of essential predication. Accordingly, the structure of the second One can be equated to that of a species
resulting from the composition of a genus (one) and a specific differentia (being / ousia). Several parallels connect
this solution with the debates on Aristotle’s theory of predication attested in the Neoplatonic commentaries
on the Categories. The parallels with Porphyry’s logical works are particularly valuable. Furthermore, in his
Response to Porphyry, Iamblichus presents Porphyry’s account of the divine hierarchy as misleadingly implying
that divine beings are species under the same common genus: a position which is virtually identical to that of
the anonymous commentator, and finds no parallel in Neoplatonic authors other than Porphyry. This hitherto
unnoticed parallel further suggests that Porphyry is the author of the anonymous commentary, as advanced
by R. Chiaradonna, “Nota su partecipazione e atto d’essere nel neoplatonismo: l’anonimo Commento al
Parmenide”, Studia graeco-arabica, 2 [2012], pp. 87-97
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