Giamblico 'De Anima'. I frammenti, la dottrina. Prefazione di H.D. Saffrey. - MARTONE, L.I.,

i frammenti, la dottrina

KORTE INHOUD

In recent years, the scholarly attention to the figure and work of Iamblichus has increased and has emphasized to his thinking in school history. An artwork however still remains little studied: De Anima. Only in fragments preserved in Stobaeus, anthology, it is central to understanding developments in Platonism at the end of antiquity. Whereas Plotinus the soul of man has an innate capacity to live life itself intelligible world and the rediscovery in our soul of this latent but real life intelligible is the end of philosophy, Iamblichus and the Platonists who follow its doctrines the human soul is locked up in the cosmos. Despite being a spiritual and incorruptible substance, it cannot rise alone towards the intelligible world, that remains outside its scope and which can only come to the saving action of the gods. The terms of this debate was far the Platonists in late Antiquity there are perhaps unrelated, but the implications for the history of philosophy are relevant: the Aristotelian description of the...
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2014Uitgever: Pisa University Press352 paginasISBN-10: 8867411608ISBN-13: 9788867411603

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