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{"title":"Variety of early modern materialism","authors":"M. Morini","doi":"10.7408/EPKN.V5I1.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7408/EPKN.V5I1.122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40097,"journal":{"name":"Epekeina-International Journal of Ontology History and Critics","volume":"156 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77488071","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":"Réceptivité et résistance de la matière au mouvement local","authors":"E. Oliveira","doi":"10.7408/EPKN.V6I2.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7408/EPKN.V6I2.113","url":null,"abstract":"A reflection on the receptivity and resistance of matter from the point of view of the second level of a teleological account, the contingent material realization of functional states. Our methodological approach is a phenomenological examination of a baby's performance, as it develops its locomotive capacity; in our examination, we apply the Aristotelian concept of unmoved mover .","PeriodicalId":40097,"journal":{"name":"Epekeina-International Journal of Ontology History and Critics","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73302590","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":"Relation and Individuation in the Philosophy of Leibniz","authors":"Angelo Cicatello","doi":"10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.115","url":null,"abstract":"The ideal plane of the relation, that is to say the fact that, as we have seen, it cannot boast the same reality as the substantial entity, is far from constituting a defective ontological trait. In some way it indicates the demand for something more that, traceable within the individual, at the same time is not reducible to the predicates that constitute its internal notion; instead, it pertains to an order and a formal connection of the arrangements and actions of each substance, in which a rule can be found for accessing understanding of the phenomena that characterize the life of the whole universe.","PeriodicalId":40097,"journal":{"name":"Epekeina-International Journal of Ontology History and Critics","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83549688","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":"Introduction. Romans on Temporality: Past, Present and Future","authors":"R. Marchese, F. Tutrone","doi":"10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.101","url":null,"abstract":"The Editors' Introduction to the volume with a survey on single articles' topics and general themes.","PeriodicalId":40097,"journal":{"name":"Epekeina-International Journal of Ontology History and Critics","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88231815","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":"Prima e dopo Epicuro: origine e sviluppo della civiltà nel De rerum natura di Lucrezio","authors":"F. Staderini","doi":"10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.94","url":null,"abstract":"In Book 5 of De rerum natura, Lucretius offers a rational reconstruction of human prehistory. His aim is to get rid of the mythological tales that envisage human progress as the result of a providential intervention. In Lucretius' view, history is a gradual and non-univocal process, triggered by the need for something useful and developed through the discoveries of human ingenium. \u0000In this paper, I argue that Lucretius sees human history as an amoral process, since from an Epicurean perspective there can be no moral meaning before the teachings of Epicurus about the limits of desires and pleasure. Therefore, Epicurus plays a key role in the cultural and social development of human civilization, and Lucretius depicts him as a quasi-divine figure. I argue that the poet’s purpose is to present Epicurus and Venus (qua personification of Epicurean hedonism) as the new patrons of Roman culture, thus replacing Mars and Hercules (the patrons of military expansionism) as well as Cybele (the personification of the mother earth, presiding over the nation's defence). \u0000However, this is not the only strategy adopted by Lucretius in order to show the importance of his master’s philosophy to cultural history. At another level of the text, Lucretius also attempts to contextualize Epicurus' doctrine by showing that this is an ars among the others. Such an ars meets a fundamental need of man – i.e. to live happily, without moral fears and physical pain – by appealing to human rationality – i.e. to the study of natural phenomena and the invention of useful technai. Lucretius intentionally compares Epicureanism with another pleasant art, i.e. music, in order to show that the pleasure brought by Epicurus' philosophy and the one sought by music are of two very different kinds. The former is the katastematic pleasure of ataraxia (the liberation of human mind from the fear of death and of the gods), while the latter is the kinetic pleasure deriving from an incessant and disquieting desire for something new. In its conclusion, the paper recalls the Epicurean belief in the advent of a blessed time, when all mankind will reach ataraxia and the dramatic course of history will definitely be over.","PeriodicalId":40097,"journal":{"name":"Epekeina-International Journal of Ontology History and Critics","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83993801","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":"Il principio passione. Intervista a Vito Mancuso","authors":"Doriana Prinzivalli","doi":"10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.97","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40097,"journal":{"name":"Epekeina-International Journal of Ontology History and Critics","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78840711","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":"Beginnings & Endings: 146 BCE as an Imperial Moment, from Polybius to Sallust","authors":"S. Davies","doi":"10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.95","url":null,"abstract":"The year 146 BCE marked an endpoint for the cities of Carthage and Corinth – two otherwise unrelated poleis that were destroyed by Rome within the space of a few months. In many ways, modern tradition has taken it for granted that these two calamities should be considered a single point in time, and that this moment (“146”) should be deemed a juncture in Roman, if not broader, history. This paper explores the earliest evolution of the “146” event horizon, from the work of Polybius to Sallust. It argues that Sallust’s well-known “theorem” – that an eliminated « fear of the enemy » inaugurated a calamitous process of internal decline – is to be understood as a multi-layered response to earlier interpretations, as pioneered by Polybius. The paper begins by reconstructing the “destructions” within their contemporary intellectual and historiographical contexts. It then explores Polybius’ views, as he considered the “synchronic” fall of Carthage and Corinth to be of unprecedented significance. For in his History , Polybius writes with an urgency, insisting that the political, pragmatic lessons to be gleaned from history were ever more pressing in his lifetime, since Fate was rapidly pulling together the myriad lifespans of all the Mediterranean states, converging upon a single polis : Rome. The events of 146 BCE, featured in the finale of the History , thus marked, in Polybius’ eyes, the full triumph of Rome as a newly minted « world-city » ( kosmopolis ). As such, they provided the ultimate Polybian lesson in statesmanship, for both ruler and ruled, while leaving an ominous possibility: that the convergence upon one polis would subject all to its individual lifecycle ( anacyclosis ), which was not immune from the corrosions of time and Fortune. And it is here, this paper asserts, that subsequent authors – Posidonius, followed by Sallust in particular – crafted their responses to the questions left unanswered by Polybius. Sallust’s unique contribution – one that was to have a lasting impact – was to explore a world in which all of the looming portents in Polybius’ History had indeed come to pass. The elimination of Carthage in particular (as a « rival for empire » ), had, for Sallust, undeniably tipped the moral-political scales, bringing about despotism abroad and deterioration at home. And even worse, the very lines between Roman and foreign, public and private, and virtue and vice had themselves become irreparably blurred, and with them, the baseline notion that history itself, as a genre, was capable of fulfilling its core promises. Sallust thus viewed his own era as locked within two timescales, now inextricably confused: that of a cyclical world history, and that of Rome as an individual state. Together, in Sallust’s presentation, the two had sunk through a distorted lens into utter disarray, with the ideals and simple lessons of the past being truly beyond the grasp of the immediate, crushing present and the gaze of the historian.","PeriodicalId":40097,"journal":{"name":"Epekeina-International Journal of Ontology History and Critics","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86250430","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":"Matrices of Time and the Recycling of Evil in Sallust’s Historiography","authors":"S. Papaioannou","doi":"10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.88","url":null,"abstract":"Historical process, according to Reinhart Koselleck, is distinguished by a special kind of temporality different from that found in nature and experienced by his historical subjects. This temporality is not linear but multileveled, and functions as a causal force of history. The historiographical process follows a similar course of multileveled development, and often it is accompanied by repetition. Repetition inserts circular time, that is, a more nature-oriented understanding of time, in the ‘scientific’ historical process, and infuses it with a sense of predeterminism, but also with a suggestion that historical process may be predicted and controlled. I shall study the interaction of linear time and circular historical time, as expressed in the understanding of temporality as observed in Sallust’s historiographical work. The Jugurthine War and the War against Catiline relate events that seem similar, and in this respect they substantiate the circularity of historical time; still, these same events have occurred in successive order, as a result of which circularity is diffused through progression. And yet, progression is not one-dimensional because it is subject to more than one narrative perspective. The final part of my paper will show that the multiple possible reconstructions of Sallust’s understanding of circular historical time in the Jugurthine War and the War against Catiline , have determined the characterization of Livy’s Hannibal, which in turn infuses intertextuality with a distinct temporal (and by extension, historical) side.","PeriodicalId":40097,"journal":{"name":"Epekeina-International Journal of Ontology History and Critics","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76323629","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":"Hegel and the phenomenological movement","authors":"G. Schimmenti","doi":"10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.83","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40097,"journal":{"name":"Epekeina-International Journal of Ontology History and Critics","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73721116","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":"Time’s Path and The Historian’s Agency: Morality and Memory in Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae","authors":"A. Seider","doi":"10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7408/EPKN.V4I1-2.82","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on two interrelated themes that structure and fracture much of Sallust’s monograph: time and morality. Driven by a strong narrative voice, vivid representations of its characters’ speeches, and an innovative historiographical structure, the Bellum Catilinae imagines moral progress and decline from often-contradictory perspectives, with its narrative riven by the same asymmetry and variation that characterizes the author’s Latin. Here, by considering several elements of Sallust’s Preface and subsequent narrative of the conspiracy, I argue that Sallust challenges his readers’ expectations about temporal structures and ultimately creates an atmosphere akin to that of a temporal civil war, where the moral value of memory loses its mooring and time’s movement threatens to become meaningless. No longer, in other words, does the memory of earlier events prompt the performance of similarly virtuous actions in the present, and no longer can Rome’s path be imagined to proceed upwards from the valorous deeds of its current citizens. Divided into two main sections, the paper considers first how Sallust offers a tentative hope for Rome’s future in his Preface and early depictions of Catiline’s conspiracy and then how those glimpses of optimism are utterly undone as the narrative proceeds. In Sallust’s descriptions of Rome’s origins, his own reasons for writings, and Catiline’s impact on the Romans, he portrays both the conspiracy and his own record of it as the kind of forces that could prompt Rome to return to its earlier glory. In the second half of the paper, I claim that this possibility is destroyed in Sallust’s construction of the speeches of Catiline, Caesar, and Cato. Each of these figures exploits the rhetorical power inherent in examples from the past, but they do so in strikingly different ways and for strikingly different reasons. The juxtaposition of their speeches shows the essentially malleable nature of memory, both in terms of its moral impact and its relationship to past events.","PeriodicalId":40097,"journal":{"name":"Epekeina-International Journal of Ontology History and Critics","volume":"126 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86691354","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}