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L'Analogie chez Aristote
2021
Revue de philosophie dont l’objet est de montrer, d’interroger ou d’évaluer les comparaisons effectives dans les différents champs disciplinaires, Analogia est une publication scientifique annuelle de l’IPC.Chaque numéro réunit un conseil scientifique nouveau chargé de sélectionner les contributions en double aveugle.L’Analogie chez Aristote.Sous la direction d’Emmanuel Brochier.Conseil scientifique :- Katerina Ierodiakonou (Genève – Athènes)- André Laks (Paris)- Benjamin C. Morison (Princeton)- Jean-Luc Solère (Boston)Sommaire :- Présentation, par Emmanuel Brochier, p. 5 ;- Christof Rapp : "Spotting similarities between disparate items" Observations on the use of analogy in Aristotle’s met…
Seneca on the Nature of Things: Moral Concerns and Theories of Matter in Natural Questions 6
2017
It is generally recognized that Lucretius' treatment of earthquakes and pestilences (6.535-607; 1090-1286) exerted great influence on Book 6 of Seneca's Natural Questions. But while a large consensus exists that both authors tend to emphasize the moral value of scientific knowledge, further research is needed with respect to Seneca's “technical” re-use of Epicurean physics and meteorology. In the present paper, I shall address this issue in three stages. First, I will analyze the structure and intellectual goals of Seneca's “doxographic” review of seismological theories (6.5-20). Far from being a doxographic account sensu proprio, such a careful review constructs the inspiring image of an i…
The (Meta)politics of Thinking
2021
In this chapter, Jussi Backman approaches Hannah Arendt’s readings of ancient philosophy by setting out from her perspective on the intellectual, political, and moral crisis characterizing Western societies in the twentieth century, a crisis to which the rise of totalitarianism bears witness. To Arendt, the political catastrophes haunting the twentieth century have roots in a tradition of political philosophy reaching back to the Greek beginnings of philosophy. Two principal features of Arendt’s exchange with the ancients are highlighted. The first is her account, in The Human Condition (1958), of the profound transformation of the Greek perceptions of political life initiated by Plato, the…
Normalitāte un ārkārtējība filosofiskā skatījumā
2022
Healing Grief: A Commentary on Seneca's Consolatio ad Marciam
2023
Both our view of Seneca’s philosophical thought and our approach to the ancient consolatory genre have radically changed since the latest commentary on the Consolatio ad Marciam was written in 1981. The aim of this work is to offer a new book-length commentary on the earliest of Seneca’s extant writings, along with a revision of the Latin text and a reassessment of Seneca’s intellectual program, strategies, and context. A crucial document to penetrate Seneca’s discourse on the self in its embryonic stages, the Ad Marciam is here taken seriously as an engaging attempt to direct the persuasive power of literary models and rhetorical devices toward the fundamentally moral project of healing Ma…
MERCES… SENTICOSA. Immaginari stoici nei Floridia di Apuleio
2020
Merces… senticosa. Stoic images in the Florida of Apuleius · In the Florida Apuleius makes use of images related to the rhetorical-philosophical stoic tradition. In particular, in Fl. 18 Apuleius describes the famous sophism of Protagoras, by using, trought an intellectual virtuosity, the metaphor of thorns, a stylistic device linked with the characterization of the Stoicism.
Hablemos de ángeles calvos, demonios pelones y figuras grotescas en la escultura barroca gallega
2014
ABSTRACT: The unusual bald angels depicted in the interior of the sounding board of the pulpit on the Gospel side of the Monastery of San Martiño Pinario in Santiago de Compostela are the starting point to undertake an iconographical study of the representation of demons in Galician Baroque sculpture, primarily in that found in Santiago de Compostela. In this analysis I go beyond the mere identification of its characteristic attributes in order to try to reconstruct the contents that they could communicate within their cultural context. In order to do so, I turn to sources derived from sacred and profane literature, as well as to Neostoicism as the prevailing trend in Spanish Catholicism of…
Seneca on the Mother Cow: Poetic Models and Natural Philosophy in the Consolation to Marcia
2020
Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia embraces the orthodox Stoic view that, when unduly protracted, grief reflects a logical misunderstanding of the natural world, human life, and the limits of the self. Seneca is aware that persuading Marcia to leave her false beliefs is the only way to reawaken her interest in communal life, family reciprocity, and constructive memory. He conceives his consolatory writing as an intellectually engaging didactic work tailored to the needs and disposition of his addressee. The main purpose of the present paper is to show that in this and several other respects the Consolation to Marcia makes a conscious move towards the different but evidently related genre of did…
Senekas pārdomas par nāvi: mūsdienu konteksts
2020
Nāves medicinizēšanas, eifemizācijas un transhumānisma diskursu noslogotajā šodienas realitātē Senekas filozofijas revitalizācija var kalpot par mudinājumu pārdomāt attieksmi pret mirstību un dzīvi tās perspektīvā. Senās Romas domātājs piedāvā aplicējamu domāšanas un uzvedības ietvaru, kas paredz baiļu atvairīšanu, sagatavošanos miršanas brīdim un tādējādi arī pastāvēšanas optimizēšanu un intensificēšanu, kā arī pašnāvības iespēju noteiktos gadījumos. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir Senekas pārdomu par nāvi sistemātiska atklāšana, ievietojot tās mūsdienu kontekstā. Darba nosaukumā fiksētais mūsdienu konteksts caurvij darbu divos aspektos. Pirmkārt, ar to nepieciešams saprast publisko uzskatu par …
The Individual and the Community in Stoic Pragmatism
2023
The present paper outlines John Lachs’s idea of stoic pragmatism and develops its important part that is the relation between the individual and the community. In his project, Lachs reduces the whole tradition of Stoic philosophy to its later, Roman version and tries to link it with the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism (especially William James, John Dewey, and George Santayana, who is close to pragmatism at some points) hoping that it is possible for these two to "enrich and complete each other" so that to provide "a better attitude to life than either of the two views alone." Stoic pragmatism pursues factual improvement in the quality of life for individuals living in given …