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Teacher
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CHIARADONNA RICCARDO
(syllabus)
The course will focus on Plotinus' account of eternity and time in his treatise III.7.
Plotinus' text will be explained in detail and the following issues will be considered:
1: Plotinus' method of inquiry
2: Eternity and the intelligible realm
3: Time, soul and the physical world.
(reference books)
a] Plotino, Sull'eternità e il tempo, in Enneadi di Plotino, a cura di M. Casaglia, C. Guidelli, A. Linguiti, F. Moriani, vol. 1, UTET, Torino 1997, pp. 471-498.
A. H. Armstrong (ed. and trans.), Plotinus, vol. 3, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1967, pp. 293-355.
[b] R. Chiaradonna, Plotino, Carocci, Roma 2009 (più volte ristampato).
R. Chiaradonna, Eternity and Time, in L.P. Gerson and J. Wilberding, The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus, CUP, Cambridge 2022, pp. 267-288.
P. Kalligas, The Enneads of Plotinus: A Commentary, vol. 1, trans. E. K. Fowden and N. Pilavachi, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2014, pp. 577-620 (Commento a: III 7. On Eternity and Time).
S.K. Strange, ‘Plotinus on the Nature of Eternity and Time’, in L. Schrenk (ed.), Aristotle in Late Antiquity, Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 22–53.
[c] Students are required to prepare a paper in Italian or English (3.000 words) about one of the following topics:
[i] Plotinus' Method of inquiry in III.7
Bibliografia: ai testi elencati nel programma d’esame, sezioni [a] e [b] va aggiunto il seguente articolo:
A. Cornea, ‘Athroa epibolê: On an Epicurean Formula in Plotinus’ Work’, in A. Longo and D. P. Taormina (eds.), Plotinus and Epicurus: Matter, Perception, Pleasure, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, pp. 177–188.
A. Michalewski, ‘Plotinus on the Conception of Time (ennoia chronou): A Re-Examination of Enn. 3.7(45).12’, Méthexis 33, 2021, pp. 151–169.
R. Chiaradonna, ‘Athroa Epibolê: Galen as a Source for Plotinus, 3.7(45)’, Méthexis 34, 2022, pp. 109-118.
[ii] Eternity and the intelligible world
Bibliografia: ai testi elencati nel programma d’esame, sezioni [a] e [b] vanno aggiunti i seguenti articoli:
L. Karfíková, ‘Eternity According to Plotinus, Enn. III,7’, Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 58 (2), 2011, pp. 437–452.
J. Wilberding, ‘Eternity in Ancient Philosophy’, in Y. Melamed (ed.), Eternity: A History, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016, pp. 14–55.
[iii] Time, soul and the physical world
Bibliografia: ai testi elencati nel programma d’esame, sezioni [a] e [b] vanno aggiunti i seguenti articoli:
R. Chiaradonna, ‘Il tempo misura del movimento? Plotino e Aristotele (Enn. III 7 [45])’, in M. Bonazzi and F. Trabattoni (eds.), Platone e la tradizione platonica: Studi di filosofia antica, Cisalpino, Milano 2003, pp. 221–250.
R.W. Sharples, ‘Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Time’, Phronesis 27 (1), 1982, pp. 58–81.
F. Karfík, ‘Le temps et l’âme chez Plotin: À propos des Ennéades VI 5 [23] 11; IV 4 [28] 15–16; III 7 [45] 11’, Elenchos 33 (2), 2012, pp. 227–257.
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