Peter Lautner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5716778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Lautner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Lautner |
| SIGNATURE | LAUTNER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pázmány Péter Catholic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Plotinus' notion of the soul and its aftermath
Plotinus on perceptual memory
The paper has a dual purpose, one historical and one theoretical. It aims to show, first, that Plotinus' notion of perceptual memory heavily draws on Stoic views insofar as both regard memory as a linguistic phenomenon. Furthermore, it aims to answer two questions, both are intimately connected to the Plotinian thesis of the impassibility of the soul. How could it happen that a present tense perceptual judgment changes into a past tense memory ju…
Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy
Szimplikiosz a szabad választásról és arról, ami rajtunk múlik
A dolgozat támpontokat kíván nyújtani ahhoz, hogy Szimplikiosz miként elemzi azt a viszonyt, amely egyfelől a vélekedés, vágy, törekvés és hárítás, másfelől pedig a szabad választás (προαίρεσις) között áll fenn. Epiktétosz Kézikönyvecskéjéhez írott kommentárjában ezt egy oksági viszonyként értelmezi, ahol a szabad választás hozza létre ezeket a lelki folyamatokat, nem pusztán irányt szab nekik. Ha jól működnek, akkor a vélekedés, vágy, törekvés é…
Perception
In ancient times, perception was viewed as a passive affection, a change in the sense caused by external sense‐objects. In Plato, perception as a passive affection was confined to the reception of primary sense‐qualities such as colors and sounds. Aristotle broadened its range to include apprehension of shape and size, discrimination of data originated in different sense‐modalities (e.g., telling the difference between sweet and white), and perce…
Hellenic Philosophy
The book contains six chapters that were published separately in different periodicals. They all aim at clarifying the character of ancient Greek philosophy, its Mediterranean-most prominently its Egyptian-sources, and the influence which it has exerted on European thought.
Mental images in Porphyry’s commentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics
The paper aims to show that /1/ on the theory of concept acquisition we gain universal concepts at the end of a process in which pictorial and conceptual phases are alternating, with the implication that the representational capacity (phantasia) produces pictures of a universal nature, and that /2/ even if the excursus Porphyry’s theory of knowledge in the preface of the Harmonics-commentary may heavily rely on theories from the early Middle Plat…
Aristotle on the Apparent Good
Reviewed by: Aristotle on the Apparent Good: Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire by Jessica Moss Peter Lautner Jessica Moss. Aristotle on the Apparent Good: Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire. Oxford Aristotle Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 255. $65.00. ISBN 978–0–19–965634–9. On Aristotle’s view, we all strive for what appears good to us; it motivates us to act, although it is only the virtuous person who…
Forms and Concepts
Reviewed by: Forms and Concepts: Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition by Christoph Helmig Peter Lautner Christoph Helmig . Forms and Concepts: Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina, 5 . Berlin : de Gruyter , 2012 . Pp. xii, 395 . $154.00 . ISBN 978–3-11–026631–3 . Ancient theories on concept formation are wildly different, and even within the Platonic tradition we find considerable dive…
Γνωστικῶς and / or ὑλικῶς
The paper aims to show that Philoponus’ theory of sense-perception does not fit in with the spiritualist claim that the sensory process does not involve an extra material change in the sense-organ. Both the specific sense-organs (like the vitreous liquid and choroid or corneal membrane in the eyes) and the primary sense-organ (like the optic pneuma) contract or expand in the perceptual process. On the other hand, the literalist claim needs to be …
Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory (review)
Reviewed by: Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory Peter Lautner R. A. H. King. Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory. Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie, 94. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. xiv, 266. $140.00. ISBN 978-3-11-021462-8. The aim of the author is to describe and contrast the views of Aristotle, who thinks that residues of sense-perception are preserved physically and may serve as an act of memory, with those of Plotinus, who wants to keep the so…
Plato's Account of the Diseases of the Soul in Timaeus 86B1–87B9
The paper aims to show that ἂνoια is the general term for the diseases of the soul, and that μανία and ἀμαθία are not necessarily two distinct species but two levels of the same disease: ignorance signifies the cognitive state, whereas madness indicates both a cognitive state and a specific phenomenal character. Plato's other remarks on psychic ailments can be incorporated into this account. The result can also be accommodated to the general theo…
Neoplatonism (review)
Reviewed by: Neoplatonism Peter Lautner Pauliina Remes, Neoplatonism. Ancient Philosophies 4. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 244. $50.00 (hb.). ISBN 978-0-520-25834-1; $18.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-520-25860-0. In this well arranged introduction, Remes offers a systematic overview of the philosophy of late antiquity. She lists five distinctive features of Neoplatonism: (1) there is a commitment to a first prin…
The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought (review)
Reviewed by: The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought Peter Lautner Christopher Gill. The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 522. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-815268-X. The past few years have seen an increasing interest in the study of the various concepts of self and personality. Gill offers a thorough analysis of Stoic and Epicurean theories with detailed reference to their Plat…
Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (review)
Reviewed by: Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Peter Lautner Simo Knuuttila. Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 341. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-926638-7. Simo Knuuttila describes ancient and medieval theories of emotions and highlights the intimate links between them. The book divides into four main chapters, one discussing the ancient theories, including those found [End Page 551] in Nemes…
Perception and Self-Knowledge
Journal Article PERCEPTION AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE: INTERPRETING FR. 264 SMITH Get access PETER LAUTNER PETER LAUTNER Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest - Piliscabe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_98, October 2007, Pages 77–90, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02506.x Published: 20 January 2014
Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon (review)
Reviewed by: Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon Peter Lautner Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils (ed.). Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame, 2003. Pp. xiv, 334. $59.95 (hb.). ISBN 0-268-03871-6; $29.95 (pb.). ISBN 0-268-03872-4. It seems that the Timaeus is on the way to regaining the popularity and respect it had in antiquity. In the last decade we saw a great number of colloquia and workshops devoted to this work.…
Platonopolis
Reviewed by: Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity Peter Lautner Dominic J. O'Meara . Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 249. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-925758-2. It is quite difficult to give a detailed account of the political theories of the Neoplatonists. In his book, O'Meara attempts to trace down these theories, and he makes it clear that they must hav…
Platonopolis
Plato's "Timaeus" as Cultural Icon
The roots of Ficino's classification of the causes of the ordered universe and his explanation of the role of mens and necessitas in the commentary on the Timaeus
The Koinh Aiσθhσiς in Proclus and Ps.-Simplicius
Journal Article THE KOINH AIΣΘHΣIΣ IN PROCLUS AND PS.-SIMPLICIUS Get access PETER LAUTNER PETER LAUTNER Peter Pazmany Catholic University of Budapest Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 47, Issue Supplement_83_Part_1, January 2004, Pages 163–174, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2004.tb02300.x Published: 22 February 2011
Sextus Empiricus
The subject is Sextus Empiricus, one the chief sources of information on ancient philosophy and one of the most influential authors in the history of skepticism. Sextus' works have had an extraordinary influence on western philosophy, and this book provides the first exhaustive and detailed study of their recovery, transmission, and intellectual influence through Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. This study deals with Sextus' …
Hierocles of Alexandria
Philo of Larissa
The distinction between ΠAntaΣIA and ΔOΞA in Proclus’ In Timaeum
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Philoponus, in De Anima III
It has been strongly disputed that Philoponus is the author of the commentary on the third book of De Anima printed in vol. xv of CAG under his name, and Stephanus of Alexandria has been taken to be its real author. The evidence for the authorship of Stephanus is as follows: (I) Codex Parisinus gr . 1914, written in the twelfth century, has an adscript by a later hand saying βιβλ⋯ον τρ⋯τον ⋯π⋯ φωνης στεφ⋯νου (‘third book from the voice of Stephan…
Rival Theories of Self-Awareness in Late Neoplatonism
L'A. etudie l'origine neoplatonicienne des differentes theories de la connaissance de soi, developpees a partir du neopythagorisme d'Iamblique de Chalcis, de la psychologie d'Alexandre d'Aphrodise et de la theorie de la perception de Simplicius. L'A. voit l'emergence du concept de connaissance de soi dans le developpement des notions d'eπιστροφη, d'imagination (Proclus) et de sens commun (Theophraste)
Philoponus, in De Anima III
It has been strongly disputed that Philoponus is the author of the commentary on the third book of De Anima printed in vol. xv of CAG under his name, and Stephanus of Alexandria has been taken to be its real author. The evidence for the authorship of Stephanus is as follows: (I) Codex Parisinus gr . 1914, written in the twelfth century, has an adscript by a later hand saying βιβλ⋯ον τρ⋯τον ⋯π⋯ φωνης στεφ⋯νου (‘third book from the voice of Stephan…
Rival Theories of Self-Awareness in Late Neoplatonism
L'A. etudie l'origine neoplatonicienne des differentes theories de la connaissance de soi, developpees a partir du neopythagorisme d'Iamblique de Chalcis, de la psychologie d'Alexandre d'Aphrodise et de la theorie de la perception de Simplicius. L'A. voit l'emergence du concept de connaissance de soi dans le developpement des notions d'eπιστροφη, d'imagination (Proclus) et de sens commun (Theophraste)
Iamblichus’ Transformation of the Aristotelian Кαфαр, Its Middle-Platonic Antecedents and Proclus’ and Simplicius’ Response to It
Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought
Andronicus of Rhodes on Aristotle's Physics 202a13-21, b23-30
The aim of the paper is to show that the two testimonies on Andronicus' theory of physical change give a coherent picture. Both accounts stress that the factor responsible for change is not necessarily to be sought for outside of the things that change. Their change is due as much to their inner constitution as to external agents. Andronicus' view resembles Galen's critique of the Aristotelian position and there is a possibility that both authors…
Plato's First Interpreters
Platonic interpretation is today at a crossroads: the corpus is being read in a variety of ways, and an authoritative approach to the whole seems elusive. In this book, the author explores ancient attempts to wrestle with Plato's writings, by philosophers whose philosphical armoury was less sophisticated but who had the advantage of speaking a Greek not unlike that of 4th-century Athens. Although the book porvdes many insights into Plato's interp…
Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity
The distinction between ΠAntaΣIA and ΔOΞA in Proclus’ In Timaeum
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Philo of Larissa
The roots of Ficino's classification of the causes of the ordered universe and his explanation of the role of mens and necessitas in the commentary on the Timaeus
The Koinh Aiσθhσiς in Proclus and Ps.-Simplicius
Journal Article THE KOINH AIΣΘHΣIΣ IN PROCLUS AND PS.-SIMPLICIUS Get access PETER LAUTNER PETER LAUTNER Peter Pazmany Catholic University of Budapest Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 47, Issue Supplement_83_Part_1, January 2004, Pages 163–174, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2004.tb02300.x Published: 22 February 2011
Sextus Empiricus
The subject is Sextus Empiricus, one the chief sources of information on ancient philosophy and one of the most influential authors in the history of skepticism. Sextus' works have had an extraordinary influence on western philosophy, and this book provides the first exhaustive and detailed study of their recovery, transmission, and intellectual influence through Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. This study deals with Sextus' …
Hierocles of Alexandria
Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon (review)
Reviewed by: Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon Peter Lautner Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils (ed.). Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame, 2003. Pp. xiv, 334. $59.95 (hb.). ISBN 0-268-03871-6; $29.95 (pb.). ISBN 0-268-03872-4. It seems that the Timaeus is on the way to regaining the popularity and respect it had in antiquity. In the last decade we saw a great number of colloquia and workshops devoted to this work.…
Platonopolis
Reviewed by: Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity Peter Lautner Dominic J. O'Meara . Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 249. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-925758-2. It is quite difficult to give a detailed account of the political theories of the Neoplatonists. In his book, O'Meara attempts to trace down these theories, and he makes it clear that they must hav…
Platonopolis
Plato's "Timaeus" as Cultural Icon
Perception and Self-Knowledge
Journal Article PERCEPTION AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE: INTERPRETING FR. 264 SMITH Get access PETER LAUTNER PETER LAUTNER Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest - Piliscabe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_98, October 2007, Pages 77–90, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02506.x Published: 20 January 2014
Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (review)
Reviewed by: Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Peter Lautner Simo Knuuttila. Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 341. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-926638-7. Simo Knuuttila describes ancient and medieval theories of emotions and highlights the intimate links between them. The book divides into four main chapters, one discussing the ancient theories, including those found [End Page 551] in Nemes…
The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought (review)
Reviewed by: The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought Peter Lautner Christopher Gill. The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 522. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-815268-X. The past few years have seen an increasing interest in the study of the various concepts of self and personality. Gill offers a thorough analysis of Stoic and Epicurean theories with detailed reference to their Plat…
Neoplatonism (review)
Reviewed by: Neoplatonism Peter Lautner Pauliina Remes, Neoplatonism. Ancient Philosophies 4. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 244. $50.00 (hb.). ISBN 978-0-520-25834-1; $18.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-520-25860-0. In this well arranged introduction, Remes offers a systematic overview of the philosophy of late antiquity. She lists five distinctive features of Neoplatonism: (1) there is a commitment to a first prin…
Plato's Account of the Diseases of the Soul in Timaeus 86B1–87B9
The paper aims to show that ἂνoια is the general term for the diseases of the soul, and that μανία and ἀμαθία are not necessarily two distinct species but two levels of the same disease: ignorance signifies the cognitive state, whereas madness indicates both a cognitive state and a specific phenomenal character. Plato's other remarks on psychic ailments can be incorporated into this account. The result can also be accommodated to the general theo…
Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory (review)
Reviewed by: Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory Peter Lautner R. A. H. King. Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory. Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie, 94. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. xiv, 266. $140.00. ISBN 978-3-11-021462-8. The aim of the author is to describe and contrast the views of Aristotle, who thinks that residues of sense-perception are preserved physically and may serve as an act of memory, with those of Plotinus, who wants to keep the so…
Γνωστικῶς and / or ὑλικῶς
The paper aims to show that Philoponus’ theory of sense-perception does not fit in with the spiritualist claim that the sensory process does not involve an extra material change in the sense-organ. Both the specific sense-organs (like the vitreous liquid and choroid or corneal membrane in the eyes) and the primary sense-organ (like the optic pneuma) contract or expand in the perceptual process. On the other hand, the literalist claim needs to be …
Aristotle on the Apparent Good
Reviewed by: Aristotle on the Apparent Good: Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire by Jessica Moss Peter Lautner Jessica Moss. Aristotle on the Apparent Good: Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire. Oxford Aristotle Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 255. $65.00. ISBN 978–0–19–965634–9. On Aristotle’s view, we all strive for what appears good to us; it motivates us to act, although it is only the virtuous person who…
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