Commentary and Tradition : : Aristotelianism, Platonism, and Post-Hellenistic Philosophy / / Pierluigi Donini; ed. by Mauro Bonazzi.

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• VerfasserIn: Donini, Pierluigi,
• HerausgeberIn: Bonazzi, Mauro,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (466 p.)

The volume collects the most important papers Pierluigi Donini wrote in the last three decades with the aim of promoting a better assessment of post-hellenistic philosophy. The philosophical relevance of post-hellenistic philosophy is now widely (though not yet universally) recognized. Yet much remains to be done. The common practice of focusing each single school in itself detracts from a balanced assessment of the strategies exploited by many philosophers of the period. On the assumption that debates among schools play a major role in the philosophy of the commentators, Donini concentrates on the interaction between leading Aristotelians and Platonists and demonstrates that the developments of both systems of thought were heavily influenced by a continuous confrontation between the two schools. And whereas in cases such as Alcinous and Aspasius this is basically uncontroversial, for other authors such us Alexander, Antiochus and Plutarch the pioneering work of Donini paves the way for a better understanding of their doctrines and definitely confirms the intellectual importance of the first imperial age, when the foundations were laid of versions of both Aristotelianism and Platonism which were bound to influence the whole history of European thought, from Late Antiquity onwards.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction by Mauro Bonazzi and Robert W. Sharples -- Acknowledgments -- ARISTOTLE AND THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION -- Il libro Lambda della Metafisica e la nascita della filosofia prima -- Mimesis tragique et apprentissage de la phronesis -- Cause, volontarietà e decisione in Aristotele, Rhet. I 10-15 (unpublished) -- Aristotele, De motu animalium 701a7 -- Alessandro e i metodi dell’esegesi filosofica -- L’objet de la Métaphysique selon Alexandre d’Aphrodise -- Θεῖα δύαμις in Alessandro di Afrodisia -- Alexander’s De fato. Problems of Coherence -- Doti naturali, abitudini e carattere nel De fato di Alessandro -- (with Paolo Accattino) Alessandro di Afrodisia De an. 90, 23 sqq., a proposito del νοῦς ϑύραϑεν -- Senarco, Alessandro e Simplicio su movimenti e grandezze semplici nel De caelo -- La giustizia nel medioplatonismo, in Aspasio e in Apuleio -- PLATONISM AND POST-HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY -- The History of the Concept of Eclecticism -- Testi e commenti, manuali e insegnamento: la forma sistematica e i metodi della filosofia in età postellenistica -- Medioplatonismo e filosofi medioplatonici. Una raccolta di studi -- Le fonti medioplatoniche di Seneca: Antioco, la conoscenza e le idée -- Plutarco, Ammonio e l’Academia -- Science and Metaphysics: Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism in Plutarch’s On the Face in the Moon -- I fondamenti della fisica e la teoria delle cause in Plutarco -- Platone e Aristotele nella tradizione pitagorica secondo Plutarco -- L’eredità academica e i fondamenti del platonismo in Plutarco -- Il De genio Socratis di Plutarco: i limiti del dogmatismo e quelli dello “scetticismo” (unpublished) -- La connaissance de dieu et la hiérarchie divine chez Albinos -- Sokrates und sein Dämon im Platonismus des 1. und 2. Jahrhunderts n.Chr. -- A Bibliography of Pierluigi Donini’s Works -- Index