Simplicius Et l'Infini
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Series: Anagoge, Book 7
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ISBN10: 2251420169
ISBN13: 9782251420165
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: Mar 14 2014
Pages: 598
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782251420165
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: Mar 14 2014
Pages: 598
Language: French
English summary: How can we contemplate the presence of the infinite within the phenomenality of the finite world outside a creationist cosmogony? Simpliciuss Commentary on Aristotles Physics offers a response to this and similar questions. The present volume offers a new perspective on the history of the problem of the infinite in ancient Greek philosophy. Drawing important additional texts by authors such as Anaxagoras and Pythagoras, Aristotle and Plotinus, as well as others, Philippe Soulier offers an erudite examination of this complex and essential problem. French description: Comment penser la presence de l'infini dans la phenomenalite du monde fini? Comment articuler l'affirmation de la finitude du monde et celle de l'infinie puissance de son principe, en dehors de toute cosmogonie creationniste? Redige a la fin de l'Antiquite, le Commentaire a la Physique d'Aristote du au philosophe neoplatonicien Simplicius offre une reponse a ces questions. Il montre comment l'analyse du monde fini, tel qu'il est donne dans l'experience phenomenale, permet d'y decouvrir l'inscription d'une puissance d'un autre ordre. Il fait meme de la reconnaissance de cette puissance une condition d'acces a l'intelligibilite du devenir. Le present ouvrage propose une mise en perspective de l'histoire du probleme de l'infini (apeiron) dans la philosophie grecque antique, a travers l'etude de la mutation du sens et de la valeur accordes a ce concept dans le Commentaire de Simplicius (In Physicam, III, 4-8). Toutefois, ce texte n'est pas simplement situe comme un document d'etape. Certes, on y dechiffre le symptome d'un puissant mouvement historique de transition spirituelle: a partir d'un illimite negativement connote depuis le tournant parmenidien, celle-ci debouchera, par le relais de la philosophie medievale, sur l'idee moderne d'une infinite positive. Mais le passage de l'illimite a l'infini designe encore un mouvement anagogique interne a la demarche meme de l'exegese de Simplicius. De fait, la critique aristotelicienne du faux infini engendre par la representation y est interpretee comme une preparation a la celebration d'une infinite expressive de la puissance de l'Un, laquelle deploie sa fecondite depuis l'ordre intelligible jusqu'au devenir sublunaire. Appuyee sur des traductions inedites de textes de Simplicius, mais aussi de Jamblique, de Syrianus et de Proclus, cette enquete excede le seul spectre doctrinal du platonisme depuis Plotin. Outre le destin de pensees presocratiques comme celles d'Anaxagore et des Pythagoriciens, elle interroge egalement le statut problematique de la doctrine orale attribuee a Platon, le moyen platonisme, le pythagorisme hellenistique - et au premier chef la philosophie aristotelicienne elle-meme.
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