La puissance de l'intelligible : la théorie plotinienne des Formes au miroir de l'héritage médioplatonicien / Alexandra Michalewski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michalewski, Alexandra, author.

Series:

Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1.

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Series 1

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Plotinus--Criticism, Textual.

Plotinus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

French

Summary:

The nature of intelligible Forms received different interpretations from various ancient Platonists. This book sketches the history of these interpretations from Antiochus to Plotinus and shows the radical transformation this theory underwent in the hands of the latter. Pre-Plotinian Platonists considered the Forms as "thoughts of god" and made the causal role of the Forms depend on the craftsman-god. Plotinus rejected this "artificialist" model. Instead he considered the Forms as living and intellective realities and thereby turned the paradigmatic causality of the intelligible on its head. The Forms are themselves active and the demiurge is no longer needed as a causal agent separate from the Forms. Plotinus incorporated key concepts of Aristotelian theology and included them in a doctrine of the causality of the Forms, thus overcoming Aristotle's objections against Platonic Forms.

Contents:

Introduction

premiere partie. Le demiurge et les Formes dans le medioplatonisme

I. Qu'est-ce que le medioplatonisme?

II. Causalite du dieu et des Formes

III. Les Formes, pensees du dieu

seconde partie. Plotin

I. De l'Un à l'Intellect

II. L'Intellect et le monde intelligible

III. Le demiurge

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 16, 2015).

ISBN:

94-6166-170-3

OCLC:

922554415