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Che cosa intendere per “filosofia”? In dialogo con Livio Rossetti
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2025-12-16) Grecchi, Luca
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Che cosa intendiamo per “filosofia”?
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2025-12-16) Rossetti, Livio
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Le système logique des hypothèses du Parménide de Platon dans le Commentaire de Georges Pachymère
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2025-12-16) Savoidakis, Georgios
George Pachymeres’ Commentary on the second part of the Platonic dialogue Parmenides is from a codicological point of view a continuation of the lost part of Proclus’ Commentary, but it can be characterized in its essence as an autonomous exegetical effort by the polymath and Aristotelian philosopher that aims to deal with the demanding text of the Parmenidean hypotheses by codifying this argumentative system of Platonic dialectic. The purely logical identity of his interpretation, which is far from being influenced by the Neoplatonists’ metaphysical and theological approaches, is manifest through the logical system of the “24 arguments” that he borrows though from Proclus’ interpretation and tries to apply ad hoc to the Platonic system of hypotheses, following it as closely as he can. This article maps the landscape of Pachymeres’ hermeneutical effort, i.e., it tries to structure in a clear and complete scheme the skeleton of his methodological approach on the whole of Parmenides’ arguments, by seeking to establish the appropriate correspondences with Proclus’ logical system of the “24 dialectical modes” and by following step by step the course of the Byzantine commentator’s reasoning strategy, especially his ingenious adjustments between Plato’s demanding text and Proclus’ schematization-model. To what extent, then, would the skeleton of the system of hypotheses that Pachymeres reconstructs from the Proclean schemes be perfect or sufficiently robust? This problem is the starting point of the present study.
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Proclus and the Intelligible-Intellectual Roots of Mathematical Theology
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2025-12-16) Maggi, Claudia
The purpose of my paper is to investigate some aspects of Proclus’ foundation of the theological role of mathematics. In the first section, I briefly discuss the question of the foundation project of mathematics in Plato, as I believe it is also from the dialogues that Proclus derives the crucial status of mathematical entities in the ascent of the soul. In the second part, after presenting the four ways that Proclus recognizes as theological and pointing out that mathematics is made part of theology through images, I analyze in particular the theological power of two geometrical images, that of the divided line and that of the circle. Lastly, the third section firstly emphasizes that the theological status of mathematics finds its ontological validation in the Proclean theory of mathematical entities as intermediates. Then, it focuses on the intelligible-intellectual roots of the intermediates themselves, which ensure that the soul’s ascent is surely directed toward the highest realities.
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Plotino e Adorno: alcuni parametri di visioni estetiche
(Wydział Filozoficzny UAM, 2025-12-16) Sanfilippo, Crispino
This article proposes a comparison between the aesthetic vision of Plotinus and that of Theodor W. Adorno, two distant thinkers – not only in time – but not for this reason not comparable to each other in the possibility of a dialogue on the way in which respectively they conceive the relationship with beauty. An attempt is made to address the topic through some parameters that structure the distinction between looking and theoretical vision, and therefore that between the object of sensation and its true content, giving prominence to the metaphysical slant of aesthetic theory. The speculative proposals of Proclus and Hume are then used methodologically to highlight links and contrasts with Neoplatonism and contemporary philosophy.