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_English summary:_ Philosophical and religious thinkers have for ever been contemplating the question of the origin of evil. _Unde malum?_ Wherever people are shaken by the experience of being exposed to violence and destruction, disease and death, and also when staring into the abyss of the human soul, questions of cause and responsibility arise. The contributions in this volume trace the continuing quest for answers, drawing on mythical narratives, philosophical reflection, psychological, soci…Read more
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44A Triadic Theology is often attributed to Numenius. This presentation of his thought must be clarified. In Fragment 19 F, he mentions three gods, but the third one turns out to be the second aspect of the second god. In the testimonies, he mentions a third intellect (30 T = Proclus, In Tim. III 103, 28‑32 D.) and a third god, who is identified with the world (29 T = Proclus, In Tim. I 303, 27‑304, 5 D.) The third intellect of 30 T seems to have to be identified with the third god as second aspec…Read more
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23Numénius a-t-il commenté le Parménide?Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 2 209-280. 2019.Si Numénius, en platonicien de son temps, a utilisé le Timée et la République à la fois pour élaborer et étayer sa pensée métaphysique et cosmologique, il est devenu coutume de penser qu’il a également eu recours au Parménide dans sa description du premier principe, qu’il peut paraître tentant d’identifier chez lui à l’Un. L’examen attentif de son œuvre ne fournit cependant que peu d’indices en ce sens et convainc même qu’elle ne permet pas une telle interprétation. Malgré ces conclusions, l’hyp…Read more
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51Numénius a-t-il commenté le Parménide?Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 1 101-151. 2019.Si Numénius, en platonicien de son temps, a utilisé le Timée et la République pour élaborer et étayer sa pensée métaphysique et cosmologique, il est devenu coutume de penser qu’il a également eu recours au Parménide dans sa description du premier principe. Il peut même paraître tentant d’identifier chez lui ce principe à l’Un. L’examen attentif de son œuvre ne fournit cependant que peu d’indices en ce sens et convainc même qu’elle ne permet pas une telle interprétation. Malgré ces conclusions, l…Read more
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18Numénius a-t-il commenté le Parménide?Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 1 107-142. 2020.Si Numénius, en platonicien de son temps, a utilisé le Timée et la République à la fois pour élaborer et étayer sa pensée métaphysique et cosmologique, il est devenu coutume de penser qu’il a également eu recours au Parménide dans sa description du premier principe, qu’il peut paraître tentant d’identifier chez lui à l’Un. L’examen attentif de son œuvre ne fournit cependant que peu d’indices en ce sens et convainc même qu’elle ne permet pas une telle interprétation. Malgré ces conclusions, l’hyp…Read more
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51Angela Ulacco, Pseudopythagorica Dorica. I trattati di argomento metafisico, logico ed epistemologico attribuiti ad Archita e a BrotinoPhilosophie Antique 20 271-276. 2020.En 1965, H. Thesleff offrait le premier recueil des textes pseudopythagoriciens parvenus (The Pythagorean texts of the Hellenistic period, Abo Akademi, Abo). Certains d’entre eux ont depuis fait l’objet d’études spécifiques : le traité Sur la nature du monde et de l’âme du Pseudo-Timée de Locres par M. Baltes (Leiden, 1972), le traité Sur les catégories du Pseudo-Archytas par T. A. Szlezák (Berlin / New York, 1972) et les traités éthiques attribués à Archytas, Métopos, Théagès et Euriphamos p...
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64Pourquoi n’y a-t-il pas d’'me du monde dans le dialogue de Numénius Sur le Bien?Philosophie Antique 21 (21): 233-264. 2021.In his dialogue On the Good (19 F = fr. 11 dP), Numenius writes that the God who is “second and third is one”. Through this phrase, he designates a God with two aspects that correspond to the double direction of his attention. In the second one, he is turned towards the world and plays the role of a demiurge. According to most scholars, this demiurge could be identified with the World Soul, that the fragments we have of the dialogue do not mention. The paper shows that this interpretation may no…Read more
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62La matière à l’origine du mal chez Numénius (Fr. 43 et 52 Des Places)Philosophie Antique 14 (14): 185-235. 2014.In his interpretation of the Timaeus, Calcidius reports Numenius’ account of Pythagoras’ views about the origin of the universe, that later on were also taken by Plato. On this occasion, Numenius identifies matter with three other entities: the indeterminate dyad, necessity, and the evil soul of the world mentioned in the Laws (fr. 52 Des Places). The paper shows how these three analogies enable us to understand the role attributed by Numenius to matter in the origin of evil even before the inca…Read more
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37Die Wurzel allen Übels: Vorstellungen über die Herkunft des Bösen und Schlechten in der Philosophie und Religion des 1.-4. Jahrhunderts (edited book, review)Mohr Siebeck. 2014.English summary: Philosophical and religious thinkers have for ever been contemplating the question of the origin of evil. Unde malum? Wherever people are shaken by the experience of being exposed to violence and destruction, disease and death, and also when staring into the abyss of the human soul, questions of cause and responsibility arise. The contributions in this volume trace the continuing quest for answers, drawing on mythical narratives, philosophical reflection, psychological, social a…Read more
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59Οὐσία in Numenius: a notion which is progressively elaborated: Analysis of the difficulties linked to οὐσία and ἰδέα in fragments 22 F, 24 F and 28 F. In the Περὶ τἀγαθοῦ, Numenius refines his definition of οὐσία step by step. He uses the word at first as a synonym of τὸ ὄν and as another designation of being. Then, he associates it to the ἕξις when he refers to the specific οὐσία which possesses science : in all likelihood, this οὐσία is the intellect as the essence common to God and Man in the…Read more
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86Sur le Bien de Numénius. Sur le Bien de PlatonChôra 15 139-165. 2017.Mauro Bonazzi has shown how Numenius based his theology on his interpretation of Plato’s Timaios and Politeia. However, by giving the title On the Good to his own dialogue, Numenius inserts it in the line of the teaching that, according to the tradition, Plato would have orally given on this topic. After focusing briefly on this teaching and its problems, the paper examines how Numenius appropriated it, as it reached him. It will appear that Numenius conceives of the oral tradition as the Pythag…Read more
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100Plutarque développe‑t‑il réellement une pensée dualiste?Chôra 13 (9999): 185-223. 2015.Plutarch is often seen as a dualist philosopher. Yet, when one studies the texts which are most often quoted to back such an opinion, the so‑called dualist doxographies in De Iside et Osiride and in De animae procreatione, one is actually lead to think otherwise. When they are replaced in their context, it so happens that these texts describe the conditions to obtain harmony and the mixing of the contraries which are both necessary to the birth and to the very existence of the universe. However,…Read more
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85Traditions bibliques et traditions égyptiennes au service d’une exégèse du mythe d’Er : Numénius et l’allégorie d’Homère dans le fragment 30 des PlacesLes Etudes Philosophiques 153 (3): 431. 2015.
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La matière à l'origine du Mal chez numénius. Un enseignement explicité chez macrobe?Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 31 (1): 41-87. 2013.
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