Data di Pubblicazione:
2015
Citazione:
Partecipazione, mescolanza, separazione : Platone e l'immanentismo / F. Forcignanò. - In: ELENCHOS. - ISSN 0392-7342. - 36:1(2015), pp. 5-44.
Abstract:
This paper discusses Aristotle’s statement (Metaph. A 9.991a8-9) that both Anaxagoras and Eudoxus claimed that things
are the result of a mixture of original elements, in relation to Plato’s metaphysics. Eudoxus used this immanentistic thesis
to remodel one central component of Plato’s Theory of Form, that is the “participation”. The first part of the paper analyzes
some Anaxagorean aspects in Plato’s metaphysics, showing that Plato shares with Anaxagoras the “Transmission Theory
of Causality” (as called by Dancy), but he refuses its immanentistic version. The second part interprets Hipp. ma. 301b2-
301c2 as a refusal of a immanentistic interpretation of verbs like προσγίγνομαι and κοσμεῖται. It is also rejected Morgan’s
thesis according to which Hippias supports an aware mereological metaphysical theory. The third part contests that Phaed.
100-106 is a defense of an immanentistic metaphysics abandoned by Plato in his later works. The meaning of the
expression to; ejn hJmi'n does not include a mereological approach to the causality. In Plato’s metaphysics there is no strong
contradiction between transcendence and immanence. The fourth part shows that the Parmenides refuses any
immanentistic version of the relationship between Forms and things. Lastly, I will argue that from a Platonic point of view
the only acceptable version is the separated interpretation of Transmission Theory of Causality.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Plato; Anaxagoras; Eudoxus; immanentism; Forms
Elenco autori:
F. Forcignanò
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