Leo Catana
Biographic Data
| ID | 459735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leo Catana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Catana |
| SIGNATURE | CATANA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5299-1833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Aristotelian Strain in Modern Environmental Virtue Ethics
This article offers a conceptual clarification of the Aristotelian component in environmental virtue ethics (EVE). It demonstrates that throughout the last four decades, contributors to EVE have favored an Aristotelian foundation (though a Humean base also has been proposed), and it presents six theoretical challenges and two underexplored possibilities premised on such an Aristotelian foundation of EVE. These two possibilities concern: 1) Aristo…
Jacob Brucker, Critical History of Philosophy
The German historian and minister Johann Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) is widely recognized as the father of modern historiography of philosophy. In 1742-1744, he published his Historia critica philosophiae in Leipzig. The second edition was published in 1766-1767. The Historia was the most comprehensive history of philosophy produced in the eighteenth-century, influencing general histories of philosophy and many encyclopedia over the following two h…
Historiographies of philosophy 1800–1950
International audience
Plato on Recognition of Political Leaders
This article argues for two inter-related theses keyed to Plato’s Gorgias. (I) Callicles does not represent a constitutional form, but political participation itself, characterised by ambition, competition among political candidates, and the psychological and ethical mechanisms entailed in the process of gaining political recognition. (II) According to Socrates’s understanding, the political leader’s mirroring and internalisation of dominant char…
Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought
The Ethical Discussion of Protection ( Boētheia ) in Plato's Gorgias
Over the last decades we have seen an increased interest in forensic rhetoric in Plato's dialogues, notably in relation to his Apology . However, little interest has been paid to this strain of rhetoric in relation to the Gorgias . In this article I focus on one notion, βοήθεια, as it was discussed in Plato's Gorgias . This notion had a wide currency in forensic rhetoric in classical Athens
Doxographical or Philosophical History of Philosophy
In a series of articles from the 1980s and 1990s, Michael Frede analysed the history of histories of philosophy written over the last three hundred years. According to Frede, modern scholars have degenerated into what he calls a ‘doxographical’ mode of writing the history of philosophy. Instead, he argued, these scholars should write what he called ‘philosophical’ history of philosophy, first established in the last decades of the seventeenth cen…
The Origin of the Division between Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism
The division of Ancient Platonism into Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism is a fairly new one. The conceptual foundation of this division was cemented in Jacob Brucker’s pioneering Historia critica philosophiae (1742-67). In the 1770s and 1780s, the term ‘Neoplatonism’ was coined on the basis of Brucker’s analysis. Three historiographical concepts were decisive to Brucker: ‘system of philosophy’, ‘eclecticism’ and ‘syncretism’. By means of these c…
Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy
The History of the History of Philosophy, and the Lost Biographical Tradition
Gregorio Piaia and Giovanni Santinello (eds): Models of the History of Philosophy. Volume II: From the Cartesian Age to Brucker, translated by Hilary Siddons and Gwyneth Weston. Springer: Dordrecht...
Anima mundi
Tannery and Duhem on the Concept of a System in the History of Philosophy and History of Science
The history of science was given a methodological foundation in the second half of the nineteenth century. The newly founded discipline soon gained institutional recognition.1 In 1892, the first ch
Lovejoy's Readings of Bruno
Arthur O. Lovejoy made rather grand methodological statements about the nature of history of ideas in his Great Chain of Being (1936). These statements were, it is argued, rhetorical declarations, intended to produce the conviction in the minds of his readers that history of ideas was distinct from history of philosophy and thus deserved institutional independence; they were not adequate descriptions of the method actually practiced. Instead, Lov…
The Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy'
Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) established the history of philosophy as a philosophical discipline in the 1740s. In order to separate this new discipline from other historical disciplines, he introduced the historiographical concept 'system of philosophy'. The historian of philosophy should use this concept as a criterion of inclusion of past philosophies, and as an ideal form of exposition. The present book describes the origin of this historiographi…
"The Concept "System of Philosophy
In this essay I examine and discuss the concept “system of philosophy” as a methodological tool in the history of philosophy; I do so in two moves. First I analyze the historical origin of the concept in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thereafter I undertake a discussion of its methodological weaknesses–a discussion that is not only relevant to the writing of history of philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but also to…
Lovejoy's Readings of Bruno
Arthur O. Lovejoy made rather grand methodological statements about the nature of history of ideas in his Great Chain of Being (1936). These statements were, it is argued, rhetorical declarations, intended to produce the conviction in the minds of his readers that history of ideas was distinct from history of philosophy and thus deserved institutional independence; they were not adequate descriptions of the method actually practiced. Instead, Lov…
"The Concept "System of Philosophy
In this essay I examine and discuss the concept “system of philosophy” as a methodological tool in the history of philosophy; I do so in two moves. First I analyze the historical origin of the concept in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thereafter I undertake a discussion of its methodological weaknesses–a discussion that is not only relevant to the writing of history of philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but also to…
"The Concept "System of Philosophy
In this essay I examine and discuss the concept “system of philosophy” as a methodological tool in the history of philosophy; I do so in two moves. First I analyze the historical origin of the concept in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thereafter I undertake a discussion of its methodological weaknesses–a discussion that is not only relevant to the writing of history of philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but also to…
The Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy'
Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) established the history of philosophy as a philosophical discipline in the 1740s. In order to separate this new discipline from other historical disciplines, he introduced the historiographical concept 'system of philosophy'. The historian of philosophy should use this concept as a criterion of inclusion of past philosophies, and as an ideal form of exposition. The present book describes the origin of this historiographi…
Lovejoy's Readings of Bruno
Arthur O. Lovejoy made rather grand methodological statements about the nature of history of ideas in his Great Chain of Being (1936). These statements were, it is argued, rhetorical declarations, intended to produce the conviction in the minds of his readers that history of ideas was distinct from history of philosophy and thus deserved institutional independence; they were not adequate descriptions of the method actually practiced. Instead, Lov…
Tannery and Duhem on the Concept of a System in the History of Philosophy and History of Science
The history of science was given a methodological foundation in the second half of the nineteenth century. The newly founded discipline soon gained institutional recognition.1 In 1892, the first ch
The History of the History of Philosophy, and the Lost Biographical Tradition
Gregorio Piaia and Giovanni Santinello (eds): Models of the History of Philosophy. Volume II: From the Cartesian Age to Brucker, translated by Hilary Siddons and Gwyneth Weston. Springer: Dordrecht...
Anima mundi
The Origin of the Division between Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism
The division of Ancient Platonism into Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism is a fairly new one. The conceptual foundation of this division was cemented in Jacob Brucker’s pioneering Historia critica philosophiae (1742-67). In the 1770s and 1780s, the term ‘Neoplatonism’ was coined on the basis of Brucker’s analysis. Three historiographical concepts were decisive to Brucker: ‘system of philosophy’, ‘eclecticism’ and ‘syncretism’. By means of these c…
Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy
Doxographical or Philosophical History of Philosophy
In a series of articles from the 1980s and 1990s, Michael Frede analysed the history of histories of philosophy written over the last three hundred years. According to Frede, modern scholars have degenerated into what he calls a ‘doxographical’ mode of writing the history of philosophy. Instead, he argued, these scholars should write what he called ‘philosophical’ history of philosophy, first established in the last decades of the seventeenth cen…
The Ethical Discussion of Protection ( Boētheia ) in Plato's Gorgias
Over the last decades we have seen an increased interest in forensic rhetoric in Plato's dialogues, notably in relation to his Apology . However, little interest has been paid to this strain of rhetoric in relation to the Gorgias . In this article I focus on one notion, βοήθεια, as it was discussed in Plato's Gorgias . This notion had a wide currency in forensic rhetoric in classical Athens
Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought
Historiographies of philosophy 1800–1950
International audience
Plato on Recognition of Political Leaders
This article argues for two inter-related theses keyed to Plato’s Gorgias. (I) Callicles does not represent a constitutional form, but political participation itself, characterised by ambition, competition among political candidates, and the psychological and ethical mechanisms entailed in the process of gaining political recognition. (II) According to Socrates’s understanding, the political leader’s mirroring and internalisation of dominant char…
The Aristotelian Strain in Modern Environmental Virtue Ethics
This article offers a conceptual clarification of the Aristotelian component in environmental virtue ethics (EVE). It demonstrates that throughout the last four decades, contributors to EVE have favored an Aristotelian foundation (though a Humean base also has been proposed), and it presents six theoretical challenges and two underexplored possibilities premised on such an Aristotelian foundation of EVE. These two possibilities concern: 1) Aristo…
Jacob Brucker, Critical History of Philosophy
The German historian and minister Johann Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) is widely recognized as the father of modern historiography of philosophy. In 1742-1744, he published his Historia critica philosophiae in Leipzig. The second edition was published in 1766-1767. The Historia was the most comprehensive history of philosophy produced in the eighteenth-century, influencing general histories of philosophy and many encyclopedia over the following two h…
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