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Ricordo di Enrico Berti

Centrone, Bruno

2022 Elenchos

doi:10.1515/elen-2022-0001

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2022 Elenchos

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The Soul’s Tool: Plato on the Usefulness of the Body

Campbell, Douglas R.

2022 Elenchos

doi:10.1515/elen-2022-0002

AbstractThis paper concerns Plato’s characterization of the body as the soul’s tool. I take perception as an example of the body’s usefulness. I explore the Timaeus’ view that perception provides us with models of orderliness. Then, I argue that perception of confusing sensible objects is...

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Aristotle on Efficient and Final Causes in Plato

Vázquez, Daniel

2022 Elenchos

doi:10.1515/elen-2022-0003

AbstractIn Metaphysics A 6, Aristotle claims that Plato only recognises formal and material causes. Yet, in various dialogues, Plato seems to use and distinguish efficient and final causes too. Consequently, Harold Cherniss accuses Aristotle of being an unfair, forgetful, or careless reader of...

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Degrees of Culpability and Voluntary Actions: Eth. Eud. II 9 and Eth. Nic. V 8 on the Voluntary

Farina, Flavia

2022 Elenchos

doi:10.1515/elen-2022-0004

AbstractIn Eth. Nic. V 8, Aristotle provides a classification of damages an agent may do, establishing degrees of culpability. In doing so, Aristotle recalls what he said about voluntary and involuntary actions in the preceding books about voluntary and involuntary actions. In this paper, I...

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Antiochus of Ascalon’s ‘Platonic’ Ethics

Trabattoni, Franco

2022 Elenchos

doi:10.1515/elen-2022-0005

AbstractThis article focuses on the Platonic version of the doctrine of oikeiosis set forth by Piso in Cicero’s De finibus, Book V. The article aims to show that: 1) Cicero’s account, while clearly having Stoic features, is also consistent with the eudaemonistic character of Socrates’ and Plato’s...

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La materia e la creazione del mondo nel De opificio mundi di Filone di Alessandria

De Luca, Ludovica

2022 Elenchos

doi:10.1515/elen-2022-0006

AbstractFollowing the traces of some references to pre-existing matter in the Septuagint, the article analyses the interpretation of Gen 1, 2a in Philo of Alexandria’s De opificio mundi with a focus on his omission of the ἀκατασκεύαστος character of the earth. Philo’s interpretation is closely...

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Götter als Seelen? Ein Beitrag zum Verständnis von Numenios, Fr. 30 des Places

Krämer, Benedikt

2022 Elenchos

doi:10.1515/elen-2022-0007

AbstractThe present paper deals with a syntactic ambiguity in Numenius’ Fr. 30, 9 and proposes a new reading. According to most scholars, in this fragment Numenius tries to identify Egyptian gods and human souls descending into generation. Instead, I argue that, since theology and psychology are...

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Severus on Tim. 30a: New Approaches and Perspectives. Porphyry, PM 87–95; Eusebius, PE 13.17

Michalewski, Alexandra

2022 Elenchos

doi:10.1515/elen-2022-0008

AbstractThis paper aims at re-evaluating the significance of Peripatetic features in Severus’ exegesis of the Timaeus through a comparison between Severus’ doxography in the PM and the fragment of his treatise on the soul quoted by Eusebius. Indeed, until now, the scholarly literature has been...

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A proposito di Giovanni Filopono cristiano e gli studi di Étienne Évrard

Longo, Angela

2022 Elenchos

doi:10.1515/elen-2022-0009

AbstractThe studies of É. Évrard, recently published by M.-A. Gavray (2020), are high quality works which allow to immerse oneself in the context of the Platonic-Aristotelian school of Alexandria in Egypt throughout the sixth century AD. They mostly focus on the figure and work of Joannes...

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