Partecipazione, mescolanza, separazione: Platone e l’immanentismo
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Filippo Forcignanò
Abstract
This paper discusses Aristotle’s statement (Metaph. A 9.991a8-9) that both Anaxagoras and Eudoxus claimed that things are the result of a mixture of original elements, in relation to Plato’s metaphysics. Eudoxus used this immanentistic thesis to remodel one central component of Plato’s Theory of Form, that is the “participation”. The first part of the paper analyzes some Anaxagorean aspects in Plato’s metaphysics, showing that Plato shares with Anaxagoras the “Transmission Theory of Causality” (as called by Dancy), but he refuses its immanentistic version. The second part interprets Hipp. ma. 301b2-301c2 as a refusal of a immanentistic interpretation of verbs like προσγίγνομαι and κοσμεîται. It is also rejected Morgan’s thesis according to which Hippias supports an aware mereological metaphysical theory. The third part contests that Phaed. 100-106 is a defense of an immanentistic metaphysics abandoned by Plato in his later works. The meaning of the expression τὸ έν ήμȋν does not include a mereological approach to the causality. In Plato’s metaphysics there is no strong contradiction between transcendence and immanence. The fourth part shows that the Parmenides refuses any immanentistic version of the relationship between Forms and things. Lastly, I will argue that from a Platonic point of view the only acceptable version is the separated interpretation of Transmission Theory of Causality.
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- Titelei
- SOMMARIO
- STUDI E SAGGI
- Partecipazione, mescolanza, separazione: Platone e l’immanentismo
- Knowing by Doing: The Role of Geometrical Practice in Aristotle’s Theory of Knowledge
- Pyrrhonian Relativism
- Der politikos aner als pantos oneirokritikos bei Philon von Alexandria. Prolegomena zu einer interpretation der Schrift De Iosepho
- DISCUSSIONI, NOTE E RASSEGNE
- Anaxagorae Homoeomeria
- Die Ursprünge des spätantiken philosophischen Curriculums im kaiserzeitlichen Aristotelismus
- RECENSIONI BIBLIOGRAFICHE
- U. Dietsche, Strategie und Philosophie bei Seneca. Untersuchungen zur therapeutischen Technik in den Epistulae morales
- A. Corti, L’Adversus Colotem di Plutarco. Storia di una polemica filosofica
- C.S. O’Brien, The Demiurge in Ancient Thought. Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators
- F. Jourdan-R. Hirsch-Luipold (Hrsgg.), Die Wurzel allen Übels. Vorstellungen über die Herkunft des Bösen und Schlechten in der Philosophie und Religion des 1.-4. Jahrhunderts
- Anonimo. Prolegomeni alla filosofia di Platone, a cura di A. Motta
- CRITERI REDAZIONALI DELLA RIVISTA
- ELENCHOS
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- SOMMARIO
- STUDI E SAGGI
- Partecipazione, mescolanza, separazione: Platone e l’immanentismo
- Knowing by Doing: The Role of Geometrical Practice in Aristotle’s Theory of Knowledge
- Pyrrhonian Relativism
- Der politikos aner als pantos oneirokritikos bei Philon von Alexandria. Prolegomena zu einer interpretation der Schrift De Iosepho
- DISCUSSIONI, NOTE E RASSEGNE
- Anaxagorae Homoeomeria
- Die Ursprünge des spätantiken philosophischen Curriculums im kaiserzeitlichen Aristotelismus
- RECENSIONI BIBLIOGRAFICHE
- U. Dietsche, Strategie und Philosophie bei Seneca. Untersuchungen zur therapeutischen Technik in den Epistulae morales
- A. Corti, L’Adversus Colotem di Plutarco. Storia di una polemica filosofica
- C.S. O’Brien, The Demiurge in Ancient Thought. Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators
- F. Jourdan-R. Hirsch-Luipold (Hrsgg.), Die Wurzel allen Übels. Vorstellungen über die Herkunft des Bösen und Schlechten in der Philosophie und Religion des 1.-4. Jahrhunderts
- Anonimo. Prolegomeni alla filosofia di Platone, a cura di A. Motta
- CRITERI REDAZIONALI DELLA RIVISTA
- ELENCHOS
