L'aporie ou l'expérience des limites de la pensée dans le Péri archôn de Damaskios / par Carolle Métry-Tresson.

Title
  1. L'aporie ou l'expérience des limites de la pensée dans le Péri archôn de Damaskios / par Carolle Métry-Tresson.
Published by
  1. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Author
  1. Métry-Tresson, Carolle.

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Description
  1. xix, 509 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. "The radical aporetism of the treatise on first principles written by the Neoplatonic philosopher Damascius may be understood as a unique approach to understand, in different ways and on an extremely high and abstract level, not only these principles but also ourselves as thinkers. In the quest to grasp ultimate reality, this treatise is also a deep reflection on the processes and limitations of human thought in relation to supreme principles. Damascius uncovers the many concealed snares of language, the limitations of our cognitive apparatus, and the common misconceptions about first principles, thereby revealing the underlying reasons for our aporias as well as their protreptic meaning and redeeming function. This study offers a new and positive reading of Damascius' equally extreme and fascinating aporetic philosophy."--Publisher's website.
Series statement
  1. Philosophia antiqua ; volume 130
Uniform title
  1. Philosophia antiqua ; v. 130.
Subject
  1. Damaskios, approximately 480-approximately 550
  2. Damascius Damascenus 458-533
  3. Damaskios
  4. Aporiai kai lyseis peri tōn prōtōn archōn (Damaskios)
  5. Aporiai kai lyseis peri tōn prōtōn archōn
  6. First philosophy
  7. Philosophy, Ancient
  8. Métaphysique
  9. Philosophie ancienne
  10. metaphysics
  11. First philosophy
  12. Philosophy, Ancient
  13. Aporie
  14. Grenzsituation
  15. Aporie
  16. Metaphysik
  17. Erste Philosophie
  18. Neuplatonismus
  19. Antikens filosofi
Contents
  1. L'aporétisme radical du Péri Archôn -- La dualité de l'âme humaine -- La dualité et l'asthénie du logos humain -- La dualité de la connaissance humaine -- L'ôdis aporétique -- Épilogue: naufrage du néoplatonisme?
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-502) and index.
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