Agonistes: Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien

by Dixsaut,Monique; Dillon,John

• ISBN13: 9780754653523
• ISBN10: 0754653528
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Agonistes comprises a collection of essays presented by his friends and colleagues to Denis O'Brien, former Directeur de recherché at the Centre Nationale de Recherché Scientifique, representing the full range of his scholarly interests in the field of ancient philosophy, from the Presocratics, through Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophy, to Plotinus and later Neoplatonism. The honorand himself leads off with a stimulating Apologia, sketching the development of his scholarly interests and dwelling on the issues that have chiefly concerned him. The contributions then follow in chronological order, under four headings: I From the Presocratics to Plato (Frère, Brancacci); II From Plato to the Stoics (Brisson, Casertano, Dixsaut, Kühn, McCabe, Narcy, Rowe, Goulet); III Plotinus and the Neoplatonist Tradition (O'Meara, Sakonji, Gersh, Steel, Dillon, Smith); IV Saint Augustine and After (Pépin, Rist, Brague/Freudenthal). They comprise a significant representation of the most distinguished scholars both on the continent and in the British Isles, and fairly represent the wide influence which Denis O'Brien has had on his contemporaries. The volume includes also a full bibliography of O'Brien's works.

Table of Contents

Preliminaries
Apologia pro vita sua	ix
Denis O'Brien
Bibliographie	xliii
Preface	liii
John Dillon
Introduction	lvii
Monique Dixsaut
I. From the Presocratics to Plato
1 Les dieux d'Élée et d'Agrigente
Jean Frère	3	(10)
2 Les tropoi de Damon
Aldo Brancacci	13	(12)
II. From Plato to the Stoics
3 Un monde abandonné à lui-même
Luc Brisson	25	(12)
4 Sollevare in alto gli occhi dell'anima Qualche riflessione su un'immagine platonica
Giovanni Casertano	37	(16)
5 Refutation et dialectique
Monique Dixsaut	53	(22)
6 La forme du bien, principe de motivation ou de savoir
Wilfried Kühn	75	(32)
7 Does your Plato bite?
Mary Margaret McCabe	107	(14)
8 Opinion et jugement dans le Théétète de Platon
Michel Narcy	121	(18)
9 Hommes et monstres: Platon et Socrate parlent de la nature humaine
Christopher J. Rowe	139	(18)
10 Les principes stoiciens sont-ils des corps ou sont-ils incorporels?
Richard Goulet	157	(22)
III. Plotinus and the Neoplatonist tradition
11 The Metaphysics of evil in Plotinus: Problems and solutions
Dominic J. O'Meara	179	(8)
12 On evil: some comments on Dr O'Brien's interpretation
Sachiko Sakonji	187	(8)
13 Plotinus on harmonia. Musical metaphors and their uses in the Enneads
Stephen Gersh	195	(14)
14 Le jugement de Proclus sur le style du Parménide
Carlos Steel	209	(18)
15 Empedocles' cosmic cycle in the later Platonist tradition
John Dillon	227	(8)
16 More Neoplatonic ethics
Andrew Smith	235	(8)
IV. Saint Augustine and after
17 Saint Augustin et l'inhabitation des idées en Dieu
Jean Pépin	243	(16)
18 A case of spiritual fornication: casting pears to real swine
John Rist	259	(8)
19 Ni Empédocle, ni Plotin
Pour le dossier du pseudo-Empédocle arabe
Rémi Brague et Gad Freudenthal	267	(18)
Index nominum	285