{"title":"Frater Bercaldus – Berealdus – Bertholdus de Maisberch: Analysen und Dokumente zu Johann Albert Fabricius’ Hinweisen auf Berthold von Moosburg","authors":"Udo Reinhold Jeck","doi":"10.1075/bpjam.00005.jec","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/bpjam.00005.jec","url":null,"abstract":"In early modernity, church historians initially showed little interest in Berthold of Moosburg. They knew him as a commentator of Proclus, but they did not recognise his importance for the history of Neoplatonism. The librarians and bibliographers who came across Berthold’s commentary on Proclus in the Balliol College Library at Oxford showed no interest in the philosophical content of this work. An article on Berthold in the monumental work Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum (1719) summarised the available information. It was Johann Albert Fabricius (1668–1736) who took notice of it. Fabricius was very interested in Proclus as well as in Neoplatonic theology and its narration in the Elements of Theology; he had started to collect all available information regarding this issue and had also come across Berthold’s commentary. However, he did not ignore him, as many had done before, but properly recognised the importance of Berthold for the history of the reception of Proclus’s philosophy. Fabricius always referred to the Dominican thinker when dealing with Proclus’s Elements of Theology, in particular in his own Bibliotheca graeca. One of the attentive readers of this work was the German philologist Friedrich Creuzer. In 1822, within the framework of publishing Neoplatonic writings, Creuzer reedited Proclus’s Elements of Theology. As a consequence of this new edition, Proclus together with his medieval commentator came into the focus of leading representatives of classical German philosophy.","PeriodicalId":148050,"journal":{"name":"Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114286283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die Harmonisierung platonischer und aristotelischer Ontologie im neuplatonischen Kategorienkommentar","authors":"T. Welt","doi":"10.1075/bpjam.00003.wel","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/bpjam.00003.wel","url":null,"abstract":"Commentaries on Plato’s and Aristotle’s works were central to the Neoplatonic school’s curriculum. In a fixed order, established since Jamblichus, the Aristotelian writings were first read, then the Platonic ones. At the beginning, the logical writings of Aristotle and particularly his Categories were examined. But like any other work, the Categories were construed from the perspective of Neoplatonic anagogy. In addition, the commentator was obliged to work out the commonalities between the two philosophical teachings. That anagogical and harmonising approach culminates in the commentaries on the Categories with the integration of the Aristotelian concept of substance into the Platonic concept of ideas. While Dexippus is primarily engaged in the right modes of predication corresponding to the sensible and the intelligible realm respectively, Simplicius focuses on the description of a continuous connection of being.","PeriodicalId":148050,"journal":{"name":"Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115810794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Platons Darlegung des Sokratischen ‚Umsonst‘ in den Dialogen der ersten Tetralogie (Euthyphron, Apologie, Kriton und Phaidon)","authors":"Andrés Quero-Sánchez","doi":"10.1075/BPJAM.18.01QUE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BPJAM.18.01QUE","url":null,"abstract":"The author interprets the dialogues belonging to Plato’s first Tetralogy, i. e. Euthyphro,\u0000Apology, Crito and Phaedo, as a coherent whole, in which the concept of ‘gratuitousness’\u0000plays the leading role. The expression ‘gratuitous’ does not mean here, however,\u0000‘arbitrary’ or ‘as someone likes’ but rather ‘free’, ‘gratis’, ‘for nothing’. Based on\u0000such an interpretation the author discusses then the important similarities existing\u0000between – on the one hand – Plato’s metaphysics of ‘gratuitousness’ and – on\u0000the other hand – Meister Eckhart’s ‘mystics’ (in which the concept of ‘why-less’\u0000being [wesen sunder warumbe] is crucial) and Schelling’s Philosophy of Identity\u0000(in which the concept of ‘absolute’ being plays the fundamental role). These three\u0000thinkers are all interested in the world as it is not merely for us or for something\u0000else – that is not in the world as it merely appears to someone under particular\u0000given conditions –, but in the world as it is in itself. However, this distinction\u0000between ‘appearances’ and ‘things-in-themselves’ is not to be thought as an epistemological\u0000but rather as an ethical or existential one, which is not related to the\u0000way how we ‘can know’ the world but rather to the way how we ‘should live’ in it.","PeriodicalId":148050,"journal":{"name":"Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115690208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Norbert Winkler (Hrsg.), Von der wirkenden und möglichen Vernunft. Philosophie in der volkssprachigen Predigt nach Meister Eckhart","authors":"F. Schweitzer","doi":"10.1075/BPJAM.18.19SCH","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BPJAM.18.19SCH","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148050,"journal":{"name":"Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130656310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Porphyry’s Definitions of Death and their Interpretation in Georgian and Byzantine Tradition","authors":"L. Alexidze","doi":"10.1075/BPJAM.18.02ALE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BPJAM.18.02ALE","url":null,"abstract":"Beginning from Plato, there exists a philosophical tradition, which interprets philosophy\u0000as preparation for death. However, for Plato the death of a philosopher\u0000does not necessarily imply death in its ordinary meaning, but rather a spiritual\u0000way of life maximally free from corporeal affections. This kind of relationship between philosophy and death was intensively discussed\u0000in late antique philosophy, Patristics, medieval Byzantine philosophy, and\u0000also in medieval Georgian literature. Based on Plato’s and Plotinus’ philosophy,\u0000Porphyry presented definitions of three kinds of death in his Sententiae (8; 9; 23):\u0000(1) ‘death’ of a philosopher, (2) natural death, (3) ‘death’ of a soul.\u0000The aim of this paper is to provide a philosophical analysis of three concepts\u0000of death in the post-Porphyrian tradition, mainly in Byzantine and Georgian\u0000texts. The paper is based on the analysis of the above mentioned issues in the texts\u0000of Porphyry (also of Plotinus, as of his predecessor), Macrobius, Michael Psellos,\u0000as well as in the old Georgian versions of the works of Ammonios Hermiae, John\u0000of Damascus and John Sinaites. We also take into consideration the views on\u0000the relation between philosophy and death in the thought of the philosophers\u0000of Humanism and Renaissance, such as Georgios Gemistos Plethon, Marsilio\u0000Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Michel de Montaigne, whether or not\u0000and to what extent their views on the relation between philosophy and death are\u0000different from the theories of ancient and medieval Platonists.","PeriodicalId":148050,"journal":{"name":"Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130517746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Manfred Gerwing, Johannes Quidort von Paris († 1306). De antichristo et de fine mundi – Vom Antichrist und vom Ende der Welt","authors":"F. Schweitzer","doi":"10.1075/BPJAM.18.18SCH","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BPJAM.18.18SCH","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148050,"journal":{"name":"Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130291037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Wondrous Paths”: the Ismāʿīlī context of Saadya’s ‘Commentary on Sefer Yeṣira’","authors":"S. Stroumsa","doi":"10.1075/BPJAM.18.03STR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BPJAM.18.03STR","url":null,"abstract":"The Commentary on Sefer Yeṣira (Book of Creation), with its pronounced Pythagorean and Neo-Platonic overtones, written by Saadya Gaon in 931, stands out among the other writings of this Jewish theologian (mutakallim), and raises the question of the purpose of its composition. It has been argued that in writing a commentary on this work of letter-speculation, Saadya responded to mythical and mystical trends in tenth-century Judaism, endeavoring to recast this foundational mystical text as a work of rational philosophy. The present article argues that Saadya was also responding to the intellectual challenge of his broader environment, stretching beyond the Jewish community. In some circles in the Islamicate world, letterspeculations, often associated with the sciences of the occult, were presented in this period as the height of philosophy. In particular, al-Tawḥīdī’s account of the Pure Brethren and Ibn Masarra’s Book on the Properties of Letters demonstrate the relevance of these trends in Saadya’s immediate geographic and intellectual environment.","PeriodicalId":148050,"journal":{"name":"Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123190564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jürgen Mittelstraß, Die griechische Denkform. Von der Entstehung der Philosophie aus dem Geiste der Geometrie","authors":"Stefan Düfel","doi":"10.1075/bpjam.18.11duf","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/bpjam.18.11duf","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148050,"journal":{"name":"Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128123148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Franz Brentano, Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles","authors":"C. Jung","doi":"10.1075/BPJAM.18.13JUN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BPJAM.18.13JUN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148050,"journal":{"name":"Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130596109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nicholas of Amsterdam on Universal Knowledge","authors":"O. Pluta","doi":"10.1075/bpjam.18.08plu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/bpjam.18.08plu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148050,"journal":{"name":"Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter","volume":"520 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123133438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}