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The study of Proclean interpretation of Plato's critique to Homer, inside the Neoplatonic revival of archaic tradition, is conducted according to two specific interpretation's levels, the first one linguistic and the second one... more
The study of Proclean interpretation of Plato's critique to Homer, inside the Neoplatonic revival of archaic tradition, is conducted according to two specific interpretation's levels, the first one linguistic and the second one other aesthetic. The reading of the Proclean text, in particular the Commentary on the Cratylus and the V and VI Dissertations of the Commentary on the Republic, shows side by side how the assimilative activity, by which a man names things and a poet constructs images of the gods, makes language and poetry activities fully incorporated with the system of analogic relations on which is based the hierarchical structure of Proclean metaphysics. Through their mimetic nature, the name and the mythical symbol are elements of union and tie of the men to the divine and so they can be said «proportion of the divine». The distribution of the real on different levels of the being allows the neo-Platonic exegete to describe the poetic production as an analogous t...
Research Interests: Philosophy, Humanities, Art, Plato, Mimesis, and 12 morePoetry, Symbolism, Theurgy, Proclus, Language, Neoplatonism, Poésie, Platon, Langage, Symbolisme, Néoplatonisme, and Homeric Tradition
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In the 5th century AD, Proclus begins his course of lessons on the Cratylus with the apparent contradiction which closes the Platonic dialogue. Now the exegete finds, as a decisive argument for the solution of this aporia, the iconic... more
In the 5th century AD, Proclus begins his course of lessons on the Cratylus with the apparent contradiction which closes the Platonic dialogue. Now the exegete finds, as a decisive argument for the solution of this aporia, the iconic nature of language. Reading some passages
of the In Cratylum, the Institutio theologica and the In Parmenidem, it will be clear how the concept of image in Proclus has an ontological nature, as well as semantic, and how, therefore, it can explain not only the natural origin of language but even the existence of incorrect names.
And in fact, through a very original but also faithful Proclean interpretation of the Platonic text, we will realise that, when a thing wants to be the image of another one, it has not to be his copy, but it needs that it has within itself the likeness and the unlikeness at the same time.
of the In Cratylum, the Institutio theologica and the In Parmenidem, it will be clear how the concept of image in Proclus has an ontological nature, as well as semantic, and how, therefore, it can explain not only the natural origin of language but even the existence of incorrect names.
And in fact, through a very original but also faithful Proclean interpretation of the Platonic text, we will realise that, when a thing wants to be the image of another one, it has not to be his copy, but it needs that it has within itself the likeness and the unlikeness at the same time.