Proclo – Lo stile e il sistema della teologia

Miriam Cutino

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Proclo – Lo stile e il sistema della teologia

Proclus – The style and system of theology

Miriam Cutino

Volume 410 in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111087085

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About this book

Proclus, successor of the School of Athens in the fifth century AD, is one of the last great voices of a pagan polytheistic world in crisis in the face of the gradual rise of Christianity.
His writing bears witness not only to one of the most influential metaphysical representations for the constitution of the idea of a philosophical "system" based on a complex "language game" based on the conceptual sphere of "order" and "unity", but also of an attempt to reconcile rhetorics with philosophy. In the three chapters in which the book is structured (style, system, unity), then, a conscious intention is evident in Proclus, to adapt the content of his systematic metaphysics to literary form. Hence there is a consistency traced in Proclus' stylistic choices , with the aesthetic norms of a rhetorical canon, probably established in the cycle of readings of the Neoplatonic school.
The way in which expressive "art" is subordinated in Proclus to philosophy is one of the most emblematic examples of a development in late antiquity, that of the enkuklios paideia – the union of all the arts necessary for the formation of man – that would later constitute in the Latin world the cycle of liberal arts.

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Miriam Cutino, KU Leuven, Belgium.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Ringraziamenti Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Sommario Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduzione Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Parte I: Lo stile
1 La retorica e la filosofia alla scuola neoplatonica Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2 Il corpus procliano: teologia, esegesi e scrittura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3 La forma del commento nella tradizione della scuola neoplatonica Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
4 Il funzionamento triadico retorica-logicateologia nel programma di lettura dei dialoghi platonici Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
5 La parola rivolta agli dei e l’evidenza del divino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Parte II: Il sistema
1 I criteri di ordinamento della gerarchia ontologica Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
2 Verso una concettualizzazione scientifica dell’ordine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
3 Il genere divino: le definizioni diverse dei “limiti” e dei “lotti” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
4 La progressiva differenziazione tra διάκοσμος e διακόσμησις Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
5 Modi del silenzio e nomi divini tra i θεῖοι διάκοσμοι Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Parte III: La teologia dell’unità
1 La necessità esistenziale dell’unità Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
2 La gerarchizzazione del lessico dell’unità Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
3 L’articolazione del sistema metafisico pieno dell’unità Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
4 Il numero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
5 L’aspetto innovativo e organico della dottrina delle enadi di Proclo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
6 La trascendenza delle enadi e i loro raggi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Conclusioni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Bibliografia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Indice analitico Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Indice dei luoghi citati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
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(Deutsch)

Language: Italian
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Ancient and Late Ancient Philosophy, Classical Philology, Greek Literature, History of Religions
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 346
Keywords: Neo-Platonism; metaphysics; Late Antiquity; Proclus

eBook

Published: June 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783111087085

Hardcover

Published: June 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783111084978