Speakers:
Prof. Tiziano Dorandi, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS – Centre J. Pépin.
Prof. Mark Edwards, University of Oxford, Christ Church
Prof. Constantinos Macris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS – LEM
Prof. Federico Maria Petrucci, Università di Torino
Prof. Irini-Fotini Viltanioti, University of Crete and IMS-FORTH
Dr. Hussein Soliman, Manuscript Center, Cultural Outreach Sector, Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
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Workshop Brief:
Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234-304), Plotinus’ disciple and editor, remains an enigmatic figure in the history of Neoplatonism: “we are faced with a figure whom we know to have been respected in late antiquity, who was influential long beyond then, but we do not know with any certainty what he stood for philosophically or what was original with him in the central areas of philosophy” (Emilsson 2022).
This workshop examines aspects of Porphyry’s psychology. We are interested in questions concerning soul’s relationship to Intellect but also soul’s own divine nature, the distinction between higher or rational and lower or irrational soul (Trabattoni 2020) as well as soul’s connection with, and separation from, body. By shedding new light on Porphyry’s views on soul, we aim at taking a departure from the traditional view (Bidez 1913; Dodds 1963) that tends to see Porphyry as a learned spokesperson of Plotinus rather than as an original metaphysician. To that aim, the workshop will be partly devoted to Περὶ τῶν τῆς ψυχῆς δυνάμεων (fr. 251-255 Smith), a treatise that has not been systematically studied by now.
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