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This is to invite you to cooperate for the sake of our 2024 Aristotelian panel at the Dublin ISNS Conference

Aristotle among the Neoplatonists

org. Silvia Fazzo and Marco Ghione
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If interested, please send an email to Aristotelica@cnr.it
Abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review. Acceptance will be notified within 2-3 weeks.

More than any other philosophical current of the Imperial period, Aristotelianism operated as a commentary tradition. Based on the texts of the Master – on their precise wording and terminology – Aristotelian philosophy found in the commentary format not only a means of transmission, but also a preferred tool for the development of doctrine. As a system, it evolved in internal consistency: the basic aim was, on the one hand, systematic coherence and didactical proficiency; on the other, fuller responsiveness to the various issues that emerged in the long span of time between Aristotle and the last traces of an Aristotelian school.

From the third through seventh centuries CE, Greek Neoplatonist commentators on Aristotle – e.g. Porphyry, Themistius, Syrianus, Ammonius, Asclepius, Philoponus, Simplicius – performed innovative exegesis of Aristotle’s works and this became their own way of making philosophy. Two main elements allowed the necessary context for this intellectual enterprise:  the very content of Aristotelian treatises, dedicated to specific areas of knowledge, but supported by a common theoretical and systematic framework; and the successful editorial work on the Aristotle’s texts accomplished by the peripatetic school of Aphrodisia in the beginning of third century CE. Alexander’s exegesis paves the way to Greek and Byzantine Neoplatonists’ and to Islamic Neoplatonism. This rich tradition includes most of Aristotle’s commentators. It still deserves to be explored with reference to case studies and to exegetical issues.

The panel invites papers on any topic that relates Aristotle’s reception, including exegesis, translation and textual transmission. Focus on textual issues is most welcome.

For information:
Silvia Fazzo
Marco Ghione

 

“Aristotle across Boundaries” (Verbania, Lago Maggiore, 8th and 9th of June) — Call for Abstracts

  • The team of Aristotelica invites you to submit an abstract for a two days preliminary hybrid conference – 8th and 9th of June – in preparation for the XXV World Conference of Philosophy in Rome 2024  “Philosophy across Boundaries”.
  • We encourage you to share your interest in a theme, a text, a problem, an author or an intellectual movement related to the crossing-boundary capacity of Aristotle’s thought and legacy. 
  • May 10th, 2023 is the deadline for submitting abstracts to aristotelica@cnr.it. Acceptance will be notified by email by May the 17th.
  • Abstracts are supposed to be informative and should be at least 300 hundred words. Longer abstracts (up to 1000 words) are also welcome.
  • The hybrid conference will be hosted the by Università del Piemonte Orientale  in the splendid location of Villa San Remigio, Verbania.
  • After the conference, relevant papers submitted by September the 1st, 2023 will be considered for publication in Aristotelica.
  • We are grateful to Jean Marc Narbonne for providing us with some preliminary thoughts about the subject of our call in this following link