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Modeling Metaphysics: The Rise of Simulation and the Reversal of Platonism
2019
Philosophical reflection on and around Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is often focused on the ethical and epistemological implications of empirical findings or innovative methods within the field. In this paper I highlight some of the metaphysical implications of developments within M&S. I argue that the rise of simulation within and across scientific disciplines is accelerating the reversal of Platonism, whose emphasis on transcendence and reliance on hierarchical, static categories has dominated western philosophy for over two millennia. The success of M&S methodologies opens up new conceptual space for articulating a metaphysics of immanence that may provide a more adequate basis for unde…
La utopía correctora: A propòsit del mite d'El polític de Plató
2014
[spa] Cal entendre la narració del mite de l'Edat de Cronos en El polític de Plató en el marc on esta situada. Sera aleshores que es podra comprendre com Plató va compasar els diferents materials que hi inteiVenen per aconseguir neutralitzar la creen~a que aquella edat d'or era una situació óptima.
Proclus, Erototokos and "the Great Confusion" : Neoplatonist defense of polytheistic piety in early byzantine Athens
2012
Politics of the Idea: (Anti-)Platonic Politics in Arendt and Badiou
2020
This paper compares two influential but conflicting contemporary models of politics as an activity: those of Hannah Arendt and Alain Badiou. It discovers the fundamental difference between their approaches to politics in their opposing evaluations of the contemporary political significance of the legacy of Plato, Platonism, and the Platonic Idea. Karl Popper’s and Arendt’s analyses of the inherently ideological nature of totalitarianism are contrasted with Badiou’s vindication of an ideological “politics of the Idea.” Arendt and Badiou are shown to share an understanding of politics as a realm for the human deployment of novelty and world-transformation. Their key disagreement concerns the …
Beierwaltes nella corrente dell'eriugenismo: la duplex theoria e lo statuto trascendentale della manifestazione
2007
L'articolo ricostruisce e discute il nucleo tematico dell'interpretazione del platonismo medievale elaborata da Beierwaltes e segnatamente della funzione centrale in esso del pensiero dell'Eriugena, mostrandone l'operatività nei successivi sviluppi della dialettica della contrazione.
Beierwaltes e la trascendentalità del pensiero
2007
Scopo del saggio è di focalizzare il contributo dell’interpretazione beierwaltesiana del neoplatonismo alla riaffermazione del principio trascendentale come connotazioe irrinunciabile del filosofare. La disamina è limitata alla considerazione degli studi beierwaltesiani sul neoplatonismo antico, in particolare sulla semantizzazione del Nous in Plotino e Proclo. Essi sono ripercorsi alla luce del programma filosofico esplicitamente assunto dall’autore nei termini della “realizzazione dell’immagine”, consistente nel riconoscere alla realtà lo statuto ontologico di immagine: per tale via il neoplatonismo antico è da Beierwaltes riattualizzato col mostrare come, nella dialettica dell’uno e dei …
Image and Copy in Contemporary Deconstruction of Platonism
2017
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between some contemporary Interpretations of Plato's Ontology and the Theory of Image-Copy connection developed in many Dialogues such as Sophist, Philebus, Timaeus and Republic. By examinating some of the most relevant criticisms to this Theory cast by french Philosophers such as Deleuze and Derrida and by retracing the roots of these criticisms to the common source of Nietzsche's and Heidegger's Thought, the paper argues a way to overcome the stiff opposition which is commonly held between these two fronts, thus trying to refine the hermeneutical approach to Plato which almost dominated the XX century.
Mimesis e ripresentazione. Dal platonismo all'ermeneutica
2012
This paper aims at reconstructing the critical debate about mimesis which occurs in the platonic literature of the twentieth century to show how much it influenced the thesis of contemporary Hermeneutics. Interpretations of the so-called “contradictory” use of mimesis in Plato were offered at the beginning of the twentieth century by scholars like Verdenius, Tate, Flashar, Koller et. al. These constitued, in their asking for a new reading of the conflict that this notion generates in the main features of platonic thought, the basis for a new theoretical expansion of the mimesis in the most recent years. The first thesis of this paper is that such positions as Gadamer's, Ricoeur's or even De…
Platone e gli Eleati (II)
2017
Si cerca di mostrare che le tendenze eleatiche erano molto diffuse nell´ Atene del IV secolo, probabilmente nella stessa Accademia e che Platone ha scritto Sofista e Parmenide essenzialmente contro i Megarici Plato gives two constrasting accounts of Zeno's philosophical purposes in the Phaedrus and Parmenides. The Parmenides is more accurate in detail, and consequently it is more probable that Zeno intended to defend Parmenides' teaching, as he is represented as doing in this dialogue, than to accumulate eristic contradictions for their own sake, as he is represented as doing in the Phaedrus. Plato seems to be aware that one of the main features of Socratism, dialectic reasoning, originates…
La circulation du poème de Parménide à l'époque impériale
2020
Si dimostra che solo pochi autori di eta´ imperiale hanno letto il poema di Parmenide, che doveva essere difficile anche da trovare. Anche i Neoplatonici, per i quali il dialogo platonico "Parmenide" era cosi´ importante, non hanno letto il poema dell´ Eeleate. Nessun poeta greco sembra influenzato dalla lingua di Parmenide.