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9Plotinus and Epicurus: Matter, Perception, Pleasure (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2016.This volume investigates the reasons why Plotinus, a philosopher inspired by Plato, made critical use of Epicurean philosophy. Eminent scholars show that some fundamental Epicurean conceptions pertaining to ethics, physics, epistemology and theology are drawn upon in the Enneads to discuss crucial notions such as pleasure and happiness, providence and fate, matter and the role of sense perception, intuition and intellectual evidence in relation to the process of knowledge acquisition. By focusin…Read more
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Choice (hairesis), self-determination (to autexousion) and what is in our power (to eph'hêmin) in Porphyry's interpretation of the myth of ErIn M. R. & Zingano Salles P. Destrée (ed.), What is Up to Us? Studies on Agency and Responsibility in ancient Philosophy., Academia Verlag. 2014.
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3Perception du temps et mémoire chez AristotePhilosophie Antique 2 33-61. 2002.La perception du temps et la mémoire sont présentés dans leur spécificité et dans leur rapport réciproque. Après avoir rejeté deux interprétations, celle selon laquelle la perception du temps est différente chez l’homme et chez les autres animaux, et celle selon laquelle le temps est perçu par la sensation commune, est proposée l’hypothèse de lecture suivante : la perception du temps présuppose des sujets sentants et doués d’imagination. Cela permet de reconstituer, dans un cadre unitaire, la di…Read more
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9Plutarco di Atene: l'uno, l'anima, le forme: saggio introduttivo, fonti, traduzione e commentoDistribuzione esclusiva, L'Erma di Bretschneider. 1989.
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9Comment l’'me voit l’intellect. Une note textuelle en marge de Plotin, Enn. IV 6 (41) 2, 22-24International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 16 (2): 152-162. 2022.This note aims to show that the text attested by the Medieval sources for Plotinus, Ennead IV, 6 (41) 2, 22-24 can be retained, notwithstanding the doubts of several scholars who tried to amend it. Retaining the manuscript tradition enables us to read in the passage three different kinds of vision of the soul : (1) the soul’s ordinary vision of itself, characterized by duality and otherness ; (2) the soul’s vision of intellect and (3) its vision of itself, when she is within the intelligible : b…Read more
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5Ancient Philosophy: Textual Paths and Historical Explanations (edited book)Routledge. 2016.'We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece', the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once wrote. It is in Greek that the questions which shaped the destiny of Western culture were asked, and so were the first attempts at an answer, and the search for a method of investigation. This book tries to rediscover the propulsive force that for over two millennia spread, and still lives in our system of thought. By systematically quoting the very words of the le…Read more
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7Körperlichkeit in der Philosophie der Spätantike. Corporeità nella filosofia tardoantica (edited book)Academia Verlag. 2020.
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Il corpo, la luce e l'insieme dei due. Una proposta esegetica di Plotino, enn. I 1 [53], 6, 14-7, 6In Christoph Horn, Daniela Patrizia Taormina & Denis Walter (eds.), Körperlichkeit in der Philosophie der Spätantike. Corporeità nella filosofia tardoantica, Academia Verlag. pp. 17-42. 2020.
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3Bergson lettore del misticismo plotiniano. Note autografe inediteElenchos 36 (2): 341-360. 2015.Bergson interprets Plotinian mysticism in the light of his distinction between two different kinds of mysticism: one which translates union with God into action, the other which translates it into contemplation. Plotinus embodies the highest expression of the latter, intellectual mysticism. This thesis runs through Bergson’s oeuvre from his early works to Les Deux Sources de la morale et de la religion. The present study traces its origins back to a reading of Ennead VI 9 on the basis of notes i…Read more
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7Due passi sull’origine della materia in Giamblico. Note a margineElenchos 35 (2): 349-364. 2014.Iamblichus took a clear stand in the late-antique debate on the origin of matter: in his view, matter is generated, in the sense that it is brought about by a higher principle (primary causes) outside physical time. Two passages testify to this conception: In Tim. fr. 38 Dillon (= Procl. In Tim. I, p. 386.8-13 D.) and Ad Porph. (De myst.) p. 196.14-19 Saffrey-Segonds (= VIII3, p. 265.6-10 Parthey). The relation between the two, however, is rather problematic and scholars stand divided: some main…Read more
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21"Todos Los seres son seres en virtud Del Uno". Unidad Y multiplicidad en el principio jambliqueo de causalidad universalSignos Filosóficos 11 (22): 59-74. 2009.El problema de la causalidad universal está planteado y resuelto por los filósofos neoplatónicos de la Antigüedad Tardía a partir del principio de acuerdo con el cual todo ente extrae el propio origen a partir de un principio superior y trascendente: el Uno. Sin embargo, sobre esta línea unitaria, t..
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21In an excerpt preserved by John Stobaeus in the chapter of the Anthologion entitled Peri tôn eph’hêmin, Porphyry addresses the issue of the origin of evil within the context of a broader investigation of individual autonomy : is it enough to envisage man as a subject with the freedom to act in order to make him responsible for evil and thus to free God of any responsibility with regard to the ills besetting individuals? An answer to this question is provided on the basis of a comparative reading…Read more
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Le dunameis dell'anima. Psicologia ed etica in giamblicoIn H. J. Blumenthal & Gillian Clark (eds.), The Divine Iamblichus: Philosopher and Man of Gods, Bristol Classical Press. 1993.
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Iamblichus: the two-fold nature of the soul and the causes of Human AgencyIn Eugene V. Afonasin, John M. Dillon & John Finamore (eds.), Iamblichus and the foundations of late platonism, Brill. pp. 63--73. 2012.
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16Natura dell'Intelletto e risveglio dell'anima. Note autografe inedite di Bergson su Plotino, Enneade VI 9, capp. 2-3Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 71 (2): 313-328. 2016.
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11Anekfoitetos. L'immanenza del derivato nel principioElenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 22 (1): 121-132. 2001.
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15Jamblique: critique de Plotin et de Porphyre: quatre étudesJ. Vrin. 1999.Est-il possible de donner a la metaphysique un statut scientifique tel qu'elle soit en mesure de controler toute la realite? En particulier, est-il possible d'appliquer un tel programme a la meta-ontologie neoplatonicienne, qui pose comme principe de toute realite l'Un ineffable, au-dela de l'etre? La reponse positive a cette question se trouve au fondement de la querelle entre les neoplatoniciens sur l'architecture de la meta-ontologie. Cette etude esquisse la premiere phase de ce debat qui eut…Read more
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1Platonismo e pitagorismoIn Riccardo Chiaradonna (ed.), Filosofia tardoantica: storia e problemi, Carocci. pp. 103--127. 2012.
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10Coloro che guardano e provano un turbamento. Memoria degli intelligibili e percorso anagogico secondo plotino, trattato 33 [II 9] 16 (review)Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 70 (3): 495-508. 2015.