Mauro Bonazzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3760636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mauro Bonazzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mauro |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonazzi |
| SIGNATURE | BONAZZI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1347-8225 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Epicureanism and Scientific Debates. Epicurean Tradition and its Ancient Reception
Epicurean philosophy is a philosophy of knowledge, nature and pleasure. The second part of a two-volume set, this edited collection examines the core areas of Epicureanism : physiology, epistemology and ethics. The study is carried out from multiple perspectives: the reconstruction and analysis of primary sources, an examination of the debates and controversies surrounding the school of Epicurus, and a review of the reception of Epicurean philoso…
Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy
The Turn to Language
This chapter discusses the importance of rhetoric to the rise of the Sophists and the way that an attention to language as such conduces to a novel and controversial understanding of reality. Language, for the Sophists, is more than a medium for conveying meaning; it is itself creative of meaning, making the education that they offer uniquely powerful. This is the fuller sense of their professing to make their students “clever at speaking” ( dein…
Political, All Too Political. Again on Protagoras’ Myth in Its Intellectual Context
The paper argues for an analytic interpretation of Protagoras’ myth in Plato’s dialogue by showing that its goal is not so much to reconstruct the origins of civilization as to identify some essential features of humankind. Against the widespread opinion that human progress depends on the development of technai , Protagoras claims that political art is the most important one, insofar as it is the condition for the existence of society. More concr…
Walten” in Schleiermacher, Heidegger, and Derrida
Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon’s Truth and Concord
“Ethical and Political Thoughts in Antiphon’s Truth and Concord ” argues for a unitarian reading of Antiphon’s treatises Truth and Concord . Three concepts are significant to the discussion: nature ( physis ), law ( nomos ), and intelligence ( gnōmē , nous ). Antiphon’s point of departure is physis , which he does not regard as source of social, that is, interpersonal, or civic normativity. In the face of the absence of nature as a guide to socia…
Towards Nazism
The image of Plato captured in Raphael’s School of Athens as the champion of contemplative life has been celebrated for centuries. Such a description of Plato, however, would probably be surprising for most readers who are used to a very different Plato. For many current readers, Plato is a political philosopher. The contrast could not be sharper. The goal of this paper is to reconstruct the origins of the political interpretation of Plato’s thou…
Daemons in the Cave
The aim of the paper is to provide a unitary reading of Plutarch’s De genio Socratis by concentrating on the character of Epameinondas. Against those who claim that the philosophical speeches are the main theme of the dialogue, it is argued that Epameinondas, one of the speakers, also plays an active role in the liberation of Thebes. Against those who insist on the political action alone, it is shown that Epameinondas’ commitment is not the same …
Thrasymachos of Chalcedon, Sophist
Thrasymachos of Chalcedon was a sophist and orator. His main area of interest was rhetoric, and he was especially known for his emphasis on the importance of the appeal to emotions. We also have fragments of two orations, the first probably linked to the post‐411 constitutional debate in Athens, the second referring to the political situation in Thessaly. In Plato's Republic he defends the view of justice as the interest of the stronger.
The Platonist Appropriation of Stoic Epistemology
An investigation of Middle Platonist epistemology. The paper argues that Middle Platonists developed an interpretation of Plato's theory of Forms as an answer to the Hellenistic debates between Stoics and Skeptics. More precisely, the paper reconstructs how Middle Platonists appropriated some Stoic key-notions (most notably, ennoiai, that is notions) and adapted them in a completely different epistemological theory. It is however debatable that t…
Bios Philosophos. Philosophy in Ancient Greek Biography
Pythagoreanising Aristotle
Θεωρια and Βιοσ Θεωρητικοσ from the Presocratics to the End of Antiquity
The notion of θeωρια and the advocacy of the contemplative life have often been considered as central and specific to Greek philosophy, and have thus received quite a great deal of attention. The strict articulation between θeωρια and inner transformation is distinctive of Imperial Platonism as a whole, and this appears to distinguish it from the Aristotelian position. With the Christianization of the imperial court and the whole empire, pagan ph…
Antiochus and Platonism
Mapping Platonism The issue of Antiochus’ relationship to Middle Platonism is as old as it is complicated. Antiochus is a shadowy figure, mentioned only a few times by Platonists of the Roman imperial age, whereas the only unifying factor of Middle Platonism seems to be that it is in the middle of something else: trying to clarify Antiochus’ philosophical position through an analysis of his relationship to Middle Platonism runs the risk of being …
The Philosophy of Antiochus
Antiochus of Ascalon was one of the seminal philosophers of the first century BC, an era of radical philosophical change. Some called him a virtual Stoic, but in reality his programme was an updated revival of the philosophy of the 'ancients', meaning above all Plato and Aristotle. His significance lies partly in his enormous influence on Roman intellectuals of the age, including Cicero, Brutus and Varro, partly in his role as the harbinger of a …
Plutarch On The Difference Between The Pyrrhonists And The Academics
A clarification of Plutarch's attitude towards scepticism will help us to assess his Platonist stance. But his attitude is not clear and scholars diverge, ranging from the view that Plutarch was not interested at all in scepticism to the hypothesis that he might have had a sceptical phase or even that his entire philosophy was sceptical. A solution can be found if Plutarch's interpretation of the Hellenistic Academy is correctly reconstructed and…
Theoria, Praxis, and the Contemplative Life after Plato and Aristotle
International audience
Theoria, praxis, and the contemplative life after Plato and Aristotle
Studies of the notion of theoria and of the contemplative life have often been restricted to Plato and Aristotle. This volume shows that aspirations to contemplation and the life of the intellect survived long after the classical period, turning into topics of heated debates, powerful arguments and original applications throughout the Hellenistic, imperial, and late antique periods. The introduction attempts to reconstruct all the problems pertai…
A Pyrrhonian Plato? Again On Sextus On Aenesidemus On Plato
The standard view of most Platonists was clear: given that philosophy basically consists in doctrines organized in a coherent system, skepticism has nothing to do with it; and given that Plato is the most important philosopher, the inevitable consequence is that he has nothing to share with skepticism either. Neoplatonists will later insist on the same point. In the same direction, but from different assumptions, goes Sextus, our best known Neopy…
The Commentary as Polemical Tool
Contrary to what is usually assumed, the Anonymous Commentator on the Theaetetus is philosophically stimulating, as the confrontation with Stoicism shows. The Anonymous Commentator displays a subtle strategy, aiming not so much to reject distinctively Stoic doctrines as to incorporate them into his own Platonist system, on the assumption that only the latter can secure adequate foundations to the doctrines. The Anonymous Commentator can thus appr…
Platonic Stoicism - Stoic Platonism
This book examines the important but largely neglected issue of the interrelation between Platonism and Stoicism in Ancient Philosophy. Several renowned specialists in the fields of Stoic and Platonic analyse the intricate mutual influences between Stoic and Platonic philosophers in the Hellenistic period, the Imperial Age, and after. Although it has been repeatedly claimed that [...]
Towards transcendence
Filone di Alessandria e il platonismo
Platonic Stoicism - Stoic Platonism
A Platonic Pythagoras. Platonism and Pythagoreanism in the Imperial Age
A Platonic Pythagoras
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A Platonic Pythagoras. Platonism and Pythagoreanism in the Imperial Age
A Platonic Pythagoras
Xvii - Eudorus of Alexandria and Early Imperial Platonism
Journal Article XVII - EUDORUS OF ALEXANDRIA AND EARLY IMPERIAL PLATONISM Get access MAURO BONAZZI MAURO BONAZZI Università degli Studi di Milano Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_94_Part_2, June 2007, Pages 365–377, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02435.x Published: 20 January 2014
Platonic Stoicism - Stoic Platonism
This book examines the important but largely neglected issue of the interrelation between Platonism and Stoicism in Ancient Philosophy. Several renowned specialists in the fields of Stoic and Platonic analyse the intricate mutual influences between Stoic and Platonic philosophers in the Hellenistic period, the Imperial Age, and after. Although it has been repeatedly claimed that [...]
Towards transcendence
Filone di Alessandria e il platonismo
Platonic Stoicism - Stoic Platonism
The Commentary as Polemical Tool
Contrary to what is usually assumed, the Anonymous Commentator on the Theaetetus is philosophically stimulating, as the confrontation with Stoicism shows. The Anonymous Commentator displays a subtle strategy, aiming not so much to reject distinctively Stoic doctrines as to incorporate them into his own Platonist system, on the assumption that only the latter can secure adequate foundations to the doctrines. The Anonymous Commentator can thus appr…
A Pyrrhonian Plato? Again On Sextus On Aenesidemus On Plato
The standard view of most Platonists was clear: given that philosophy basically consists in doctrines organized in a coherent system, skepticism has nothing to do with it; and given that Plato is the most important philosopher, the inevitable consequence is that he has nothing to share with skepticism either. Neoplatonists will later insist on the same point. In the same direction, but from different assumptions, goes Sextus, our best known Neopy…
Θεωρια and Βιοσ Θεωρητικοσ from the Presocratics to the End of Antiquity
The notion of θeωρια and the advocacy of the contemplative life have often been considered as central and specific to Greek philosophy, and have thus received quite a great deal of attention. The strict articulation between θeωρια and inner transformation is distinctive of Imperial Platonism as a whole, and this appears to distinguish it from the Aristotelian position. With the Christianization of the imperial court and the whole empire, pagan ph…
Antiochus and Platonism
Mapping Platonism The issue of Antiochus’ relationship to Middle Platonism is as old as it is complicated. Antiochus is a shadowy figure, mentioned only a few times by Platonists of the Roman imperial age, whereas the only unifying factor of Middle Platonism seems to be that it is in the middle of something else: trying to clarify Antiochus’ philosophical position through an analysis of his relationship to Middle Platonism runs the risk of being …
The Philosophy of Antiochus
Antiochus of Ascalon was one of the seminal philosophers of the first century BC, an era of radical philosophical change. Some called him a virtual Stoic, but in reality his programme was an updated revival of the philosophy of the 'ancients', meaning above all Plato and Aristotle. His significance lies partly in his enormous influence on Roman intellectuals of the age, including Cicero, Brutus and Varro, partly in his role as the harbinger of a …
Plutarch On The Difference Between The Pyrrhonists And The Academics
A clarification of Plutarch's attitude towards scepticism will help us to assess his Platonist stance. But his attitude is not clear and scholars diverge, ranging from the view that Plutarch was not interested at all in scepticism to the hypothesis that he might have had a sceptical phase or even that his entire philosophy was sceptical. A solution can be found if Plutarch's interpretation of the Hellenistic Academy is correctly reconstructed and…
Theoria, Praxis, and the Contemplative Life after Plato and Aristotle
International audience
Theoria, praxis, and the contemplative life after Plato and Aristotle
Studies of the notion of theoria and of the contemplative life have often been restricted to Plato and Aristotle. This volume shows that aspirations to contemplation and the life of the intellect survived long after the classical period, turning into topics of heated debates, powerful arguments and original applications throughout the Hellenistic, imperial, and late antique periods. The introduction attempts to reconstruct all the problems pertai…
Pythagoreanising Aristotle
Bios Philosophos. Philosophy in Ancient Greek Biography
Thrasymachos of Chalcedon, Sophist
Thrasymachos of Chalcedon was a sophist and orator. His main area of interest was rhetoric, and he was especially known for his emphasis on the importance of the appeal to emotions. We also have fragments of two orations, the first probably linked to the post‐411 constitutional debate in Athens, the second referring to the political situation in Thessaly. In Plato's Republic he defends the view of justice as the interest of the stronger.
The Platonist Appropriation of Stoic Epistemology
An investigation of Middle Platonist epistemology. The paper argues that Middle Platonists developed an interpretation of Plato's theory of Forms as an answer to the Hellenistic debates between Stoics and Skeptics. More precisely, the paper reconstructs how Middle Platonists appropriated some Stoic key-notions (most notably, ennoiai, that is notions) and adapted them in a completely different epistemological theory. It is however debatable that t…
Daemons in the Cave
The aim of the paper is to provide a unitary reading of Plutarch’s De genio Socratis by concentrating on the character of Epameinondas. Against those who claim that the philosophical speeches are the main theme of the dialogue, it is argued that Epameinondas, one of the speakers, also plays an active role in the liberation of Thebes. Against those who insist on the political action alone, it is shown that Epameinondas’ commitment is not the same …
Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon’s Truth and Concord
“Ethical and Political Thoughts in Antiphon’s Truth and Concord ” argues for a unitarian reading of Antiphon’s treatises Truth and Concord . Three concepts are significant to the discussion: nature ( physis ), law ( nomos ), and intelligence ( gnōmē , nous ). Antiphon’s point of departure is physis , which he does not regard as source of social, that is, interpersonal, or civic normativity. In the face of the absence of nature as a guide to socia…
Towards Nazism
The image of Plato captured in Raphael’s School of Athens as the champion of contemplative life has been celebrated for centuries. Such a description of Plato, however, would probably be surprising for most readers who are used to a very different Plato. For many current readers, Plato is a political philosopher. The contrast could not be sharper. The goal of this paper is to reconstruct the origins of the political interpretation of Plato’s thou…
Political, All Too Political. Again on Protagoras’ Myth in Its Intellectual Context
The paper argues for an analytic interpretation of Protagoras’ myth in Plato’s dialogue by showing that its goal is not so much to reconstruct the origins of civilization as to identify some essential features of humankind. Against the widespread opinion that human progress depends on the development of technai , Protagoras claims that political art is the most important one, insofar as it is the condition for the existence of society. More concr…
Walten” in Schleiermacher, Heidegger, and Derrida
The Turn to Language
This chapter discusses the importance of rhetoric to the rise of the Sophists and the way that an attention to language as such conduces to a novel and controversial understanding of reality. Language, for the Sophists, is more than a medium for conveying meaning; it is itself creative of meaning, making the education that they offer uniquely powerful. This is the fuller sense of their professing to make their students “clever at speaking” ( dein…
Epicureanism and Scientific Debates. Epicurean Tradition and its Ancient Reception
Epicurean philosophy is a philosophy of knowledge, nature and pleasure. The second part of a two-volume set, this edited collection examines the core areas of Epicureanism : physiology, epistemology and ethics. The study is carried out from multiple perspectives: the reconstruction and analysis of primary sources, an examination of the debates and controversies surrounding the school of Epicurus, and a review of the reception of Epicurean philoso…
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