ElenchosPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1515/elen-2020-0011
Manfred Kraus
{"title":"Critica dell’apparente e critica apparente. Simplicio interprete di Parmenide nel Commentario al de Caelo di Aristotele, Saggio introduttivo, raccolta dei testi, traduzione e commentario (Symbolon 44)","authors":"Manfred Kraus","doi":"10.1515/elen-2020-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2020-0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38726,"journal":{"name":"Elenchos","volume":"41 1","pages":"201 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/elen-2020-0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44509178","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}
ElenchosPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1515/elen-2020-0005
Max Bergamo
{"title":"A Heraclitean Wordplay in Plotinus","authors":"Max Bergamo","doi":"10.1515/elen-2020-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2020-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper is devoted to the analysis of Plotinus’ citation of the Heraclitean saying B113 DK in the second treatise On the Presence of Being (VI 5 [23]). I shall argue that the use which the author of the Enneads makes of this fragment has been hitherto misunderstood by scholars and that, for this reason, the significance of the passage and its role within Plotinus’ argument have been missed. Close attention will be paid to the tool through which Plotinus conveys his own reading of Heraclitus’ tenet, i.e. etymology, and to the passages in which he both lays down and puts into practice the programmatic guidelines for his interpretation of the Presocratic. In addition, I shall interpret Plotinus’ recourse to a wordplay which is, in character, quite Heraclitean as a proof of the importance of his philosophical engagement with the Obscure.","PeriodicalId":38726,"journal":{"name":"Elenchos","volume":"41 1","pages":"105 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/elen-2020-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44361730","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}
ElenchosPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1515/elen-2020-0003
Owen Goldin
{"title":"Pistis, Persuasion, and Logos in Aristotle","authors":"Owen Goldin","doi":"10.1515/elen-2020-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2020-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The core sense of pistis as understood in Posterior Analytics, De Anima, and the Rhetoric is not that of a logical relation in which cognitively grasped propositions stand in respect to one another, but the result of an act of socially embedded interpersonal communication, a willing acceptance of guidance offered in respect to action. Even when pistis seems to have an exclusively epistemological sense, this focal meaning of pistis is implicit; to have pistis in a proposition is to willingly accept that proposition as a basis for some kind of activity (albeit possibly theoretical) as a result of some kind of communicative act. This is in accordance with Aristotle’s understanding of argumentation as a social practice, entered into in order lead others to certain actions, for certain ends. Understanding pistis in this way allows us to understand how it is that pistis admits of quantitative variation.","PeriodicalId":38726,"journal":{"name":"Elenchos","volume":"41 1","pages":"49 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/elen-2020-0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43746422","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}
ElenchosPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1515/elen-2020-0002
A. Brancacci
{"title":"Il Teeteto e il suo rapporto con il Cratilo","authors":"A. Brancacci","doi":"10.1515/elen-2020-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2020-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With the use of a particular metaphor, which appears at the end of the Cratylus and is taken up with perfect symmetry at the beginning of the Theaetetus, Plato certainly wanted to indicate the succession of Cratylus–Theaetetus as an order for reading the two dialogues, which Trasillus faithfully reproduced in structuring the second tetralogy of Platonic dialogues. The claim of the theory of ideas, with which the Cratylus ends, must therefore be considered the background in which to place not only the analysis of the name carried out in the Cratylus, but also the discussion and criticism of the epistemological theories examined and refuted in the Theaetetus. The transition from the discussion of the name to that of the logos is another important theoretical element that connects the two dialogues. Another one is the theory of knowledge, already precisely elaborated in the Cratylus, and taken up and deepened in the Theaetetus. Finally, the theme of false and error is a third theoretical element common to the two dialogues, which, starting from Euthydemus, finds its solution in the Sophist.","PeriodicalId":38726,"journal":{"name":"Elenchos","volume":"41 1","pages":"27 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/elen-2020-0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41777389","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}
ElenchosPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1515/elen-2020-0009
A. Longo
{"title":"Pensare Dio. Spunti di riflessione in dialogo con Anca Vasiliu","authors":"A. Longo","doi":"10.1515/elen-2020-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2020-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The following work features elements to ponder and an in-depth explanation taken on the Anca Vasiliu’s study about the possibilities and ways of thinking of God by a rational entity, such as the human being. This is an ever relevant topic that, however, takes place in relation to Platonic authors and texts, especially in Late Antiquity. The common thread is that the human being is a God’s creature who resembles him and who is image of. Nevertheless, this also applies within the Christian Trinity according to which, not without problems, the Son is the image of the Father. Lastly, also the relationship of the Spirit with the Father and the Son, always within the Trinity, can be considered as a relationship of similarity, but again not without critical issues between the similarity of attributes, on the one hand, and the identity of nature, on the other.","PeriodicalId":38726,"journal":{"name":"Elenchos","volume":"41 1","pages":"181 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/elen-2020-0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43901943","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}
ElenchosPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1515/elen-2020-0006
Filippo Sirianni
{"title":"ΣΤΑΣΙΣ e ΔΙΑΦΘΟΡΑ. Nota a Sofista 228a7-8","authors":"Filippo Sirianni","doi":"10.1515/elen-2020-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2020-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Passage 228a7-8 of Plato’s Sophist has been the object of a broad debate by reason of a number of subtle interpretative problems. The present work attempts to take stock of this passage and to put forward a satisfying solution from both a philological and an exegetic perspective. I seek to show that the reading cited by Galen and adopted in the editions of the Sophist (τὴν τοῦ φύσει συγγενοῦς ἔκ τινος διαφθορᾶς διαφοράν) cannot be preferred to the variant found in the manuscripts of the dialogue (τὴν τοῦ φύσει συγγενοῦς ἔκ τινος διαφορᾶς διαφθοράν). As for the interpretation, both readings stand out as problematic. I propose to reconsider the interpretation of the syntagma τοῦ φύσει συγγενοῦς and to translate it as “the natural kinship” rather than as “what is naturally kindred”. The paper continues with an analysis of the role played by kinship in Plato’s philosophy, showing how its sundering can be identified with stasis.","PeriodicalId":38726,"journal":{"name":"Elenchos","volume":"41 1","pages":"141 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/elen-2020-0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45497144","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}
ElenchosPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1515/elen-2020-0008
Marion Bourbon
{"title":"De la krasis présocratique à la krasis stoïcienne : l’émergence d’un modèle organique de l’individualité","authors":"Marion Bourbon","doi":"10.1515/elen-2020-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2020-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper focuses on the materialistic account of the blending and the way it shapes an original organism model. I aim to shed light on the threads of connections we can gather between the Presocratic and the Stoic views on the physical krasis of the body. The Stoics share with Parmenides and Empedocles the idea of a single material cosmic continuum in which thought and perception depend on the various blendings of the physical constituents of the body. Both of these naturalistic traditions are committed to the view that substance is continuous and undergoes constant and qualitative change. My point is to underline how this view of a sympathetic cosmos presupposes a model of the individuality that is radically open. Thus, by taking off the notion of the krasis, the Stoics take off a problem – namely, that of the organism – that is first fleshed out by the Presocratics – Parmenides and Empedocles in particular – philosophers. In this respect, the Stoic view of relational identity indebts to the Presocratic account, beyond and against the Aristotelian one.","PeriodicalId":38726,"journal":{"name":"Elenchos","volume":"41 1","pages":"165 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/elen-2020-0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48642230","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}
ElenchosPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1515/elen-2020-0001
Mathilde Brémond
{"title":"How did Xenophanes Become an Eleatic Philosopher?","authors":"Mathilde Brémond","doi":"10.1515/elen-2020-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2020-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, I investigate how Xenophanes was ‘eleaticised’, i.e. attributed theses and arguments that belong to Parmenides and Melissus. I examine texts of Plato, Aristotle and Theophrastus in order to determine if they considered Xenophanes as a philosopher and a monist. I show that neither Plato nor Aristotle regarded him as a philosopher, but rather as a pantheist poet who claimed, in a vague way, that everything is one. But Theophrastus interpreted too literally Aristotle’s claims and was the first to make Xenophanes a proper monist philosopher.","PeriodicalId":38726,"journal":{"name":"Elenchos","volume":"41 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/elen-2020-0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46572653","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}
ElenchosPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1515/elen-2020-0004
Benjamin Harriman
{"title":"Musonius Rufus, Cleanthes, and the Stoic Community at Rome","authors":"Benjamin Harriman","doi":"10.1515/elen-2020-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2020-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Surprisingly little attention has been devoted to Musonius Rufus, a noted teacher and philosopher in first–century CE Rome, despite ample evidence for his impact in the period. This paper attempts to situate Musonius in relation to his philosophical predecessors in order to clarify both the contemporary status of the Stoic tradition and the value of engaging with the central figures of that school’s history. I make the case for seeing Cleanthes as a particularly prominent predecessor for Musonius and reaffirm the importance of framing his philosophical commitments in the context of the Stoic tradition. On this latter point, I attempt to connect Musonius’ perspective on askesis and moral development with that of Posidonius (and Seneca). In doing so, I push back against the sometimes overly schematic intellectualism attributed to Stoic ethics generally.","PeriodicalId":38726,"journal":{"name":"Elenchos","volume":"41 1","pages":"71 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/elen-2020-0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41860757","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}
ElenchosPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.1515/elen-2020-0007
S. Fazzo
{"title":"Una versione progredita della teoria delle idee nel papiro di Ai Khanoum: una scoperta nella scoperta","authors":"S. Fazzo","doi":"10.1515/elen-2020-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2020-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper firstly focuses on a rare vox, that is, the verb μετίσχω, as a new finding in two different sources: the Π text of Methaphysics Lambda 1075b19 and the “Ai Khanoum philosophical papyrus” (not only at column II.9, but arguably at II.11 and IV.8–9 as well). Using the verb μετίσχω testifies for a “2.0 version” of the theory of ideas, in a subsequent phase to Plato’s Parmenides. Xenocrates is likely to have played a role. This suggests a deeper connection than previously thought between Aristotelian theories and Plato’s Academy.","PeriodicalId":38726,"journal":{"name":"Elenchos","volume":"41 1","pages":"157 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/elen-2020-0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47716378","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}