ὁδοὶ νοῆσαι. Ways to Think. Essays in Honour of Néstor-Luis Cordero Edited by Massimo Pulpito and Pilar Spangenberg., 2018
ABSTRACT
This article deals with some textual and interpretive problems of DKB28
B1.3, a corrupte... more ABSTRACT This article deals with some textual and interpretive problems of DKB28 B1.3, a corrupted Parmenidean verse. Taking a glance at the Proem’s structure (which reveals a complex pentadic ring composition), and from a survey and discussion of the various conjectures hitherto proposed – particularly the rejection of κατὰ πάντ᾽ ἄστη as an emendation – we adopt as the original reading the following, accepting an upsilon as supplement, along the path of an old conjecture by G. Hermann, πάντ’ αὐτὴ, and two recent proposals by N. L. Cordero, πᾶν τα<ύ>τῃ, and A, Mourelatos, κατὰ … α<ὐ>τὴ<ν>: ΔΑΙΜΟΝΟΣΗΚΑΤΑΠΑΝΤΑΥΤΗΦΕΡΕΙΕΙΔΟΤΑΦΩΤΑ Our own conjecture, ἣ κατὰ πάντ’ αὖ τῇ φέρει εἰδότα φῶτα, “which [road] brings back again there the man who knows all things”, comes from a different analysis of the sequence ΑΥΤΗ, which we interpret as two words: the adverbs αὖ and τῇ. The verse thus looks forward to the methodological formulation in B5, and is a micro-image of the Proem as a whole, which puts in the foreground its eminently poetological character. Furthermore, our interpretation relies on the hypothesis that we are facing a case of discontinuous syntax: breaking apart the prepositional phrase κατὰ πάντα, we construe πάντα in hyperbaton as the direct object of the participle εἰδότα, meaning “the man who knows all things”, the perfectly antithetic characterization of the βροτοὶ εἰδότες οὐδὲν, “the mortals who know nothing” of fragment B6, and the preposition κατὰ in tmesis with the verb φέρει (“carry back, carry home”, “return”).
La restitución del cuerpo completo o, al menos, de la fisonomía general de una obra compuesta por... more La restitución del cuerpo completo o, al menos, de la fisonomía general de una obra compuesta por alguno de los pensadores presocráticos, recuperada como nuevo Pélope o Diónisos textual a partir de los disiecta membra recogidos por la tradición indirecta, se antoja como una suerte de rêve défendu para el filólogo o el historiador de la filosofía antigua. Por ello, Heraclitea IV. A Refectio constituye una de las empresas más ambiciosas que se conozcan en el estudio actual de la filosofía antigua, pues ofrece la primera reconstrucción integral, debida a Serge N. Mouraviev, de la estructura, el contenido e incluso la redacción misma del libro que Heráclito de Éfeso escribió hace alrededor de 2500 años.
Sobre este tema central, un grupo internacional de expertos entabla en este espacio una discusión científica, en diálogo constructivo con interpretaciones previas, sobre la muy particular fortuna de dicho libro y de las concepciones a las que sirvió de vehículo, con especial énfasis en el eco efectivo que tuvo en su época y en la posteridad, a partir de una valoración objetiva de la reconstrucción filológica y la lectura filosófica subyacentes a la nueva Refectio, sobre cuyos problemas todavía no resueltos o recién identificados aportan nuevas evidencias y propuestas exegéticas.
The sample pdf includes only the first two sections of the article, which is a selective bibliogr... more The sample pdf includes only the first two sections of the article, which is a selective bibliography with brief comments to every citation (121 items in all). Full access is available by subscription at the Oxford Bibliographies website. Here's the complete table of contents:
Introduction.
General Overviews.
Critical Editions and Commentaries.
Other Editions.
Bibliographies.
Studies.
Handbooks and Sourcebooks.
Collections of Articles.
Major Topics and Debates:
Heraclitus, Some Poets and Other Presocratics.
Language, Style, and Poetics.
Logos and Physis..
Unity of Opposites.
Flux.
Fire, Cosmology, and Cosmogony.
Soul.
Knowledge and Perception.
Ethics and Politics.
Religion and Theology.
Reception.
The paper focuses on a neglected instance of the Platonic reception of Heraclitus in the Republic... more The paper focuses on a neglected instance of the Platonic reception of Heraclitus in the Republic (II, 375e-376c), trying to show that it’s likely that Plato’s passage makes an allusion to Heraclitus’ B97 (“Dogs bark at whom they don’t know”) and B85 (“It’s difficult to fight θυμός, for what it longs for it pays with ψυχή”). The main claim is that Plato’s use of the image of dogs looks back to Heraclitus, which invites an exploration of the possibility that at least some elements of Plato’s kallipolis might derive from Heraclitus –particularly from some ethical and political fragments. A brief survey of these suggests a deep philosophical affinity among the two authors in several important areas (as the so-called ‘moral psychology and ‘ethical intellectualism’), and questions the commonplace traditional interpretation of Heraclitus as a defender of aristocratic morality.
KEYWORDS: Plato, Heraclitus, dogs, θυμός, φύλακες, δῆμος, πολλοί, ἄριστοι.
ὁδοὶ νοῆσαι. Ways to Think. Essays in Honour of Néstor-Luis Cordero Edited by Massimo Pulpito and Pilar Spangenberg., 2018
ABSTRACT
This article deals with some textual and interpretive problems of DKB28
B1.3, a corrupte... more ABSTRACT This article deals with some textual and interpretive problems of DKB28 B1.3, a corrupted Parmenidean verse. Taking a glance at the Proem’s structure (which reveals a complex pentadic ring composition), and from a survey and discussion of the various conjectures hitherto proposed – particularly the rejection of κατὰ πάντ᾽ ἄστη as an emendation – we adopt as the original reading the following, accepting an upsilon as supplement, along the path of an old conjecture by G. Hermann, πάντ’ αὐτὴ, and two recent proposals by N. L. Cordero, πᾶν τα<ύ>τῃ, and A, Mourelatos, κατὰ … α<ὐ>τὴ<ν>: ΔΑΙΜΟΝΟΣΗΚΑΤΑΠΑΝΤΑΥΤΗΦΕΡΕΙΕΙΔΟΤΑΦΩΤΑ Our own conjecture, ἣ κατὰ πάντ’ αὖ τῇ φέρει εἰδότα φῶτα, “which [road] brings back again there the man who knows all things”, comes from a different analysis of the sequence ΑΥΤΗ, which we interpret as two words: the adverbs αὖ and τῇ. The verse thus looks forward to the methodological formulation in B5, and is a micro-image of the Proem as a whole, which puts in the foreground its eminently poetological character. Furthermore, our interpretation relies on the hypothesis that we are facing a case of discontinuous syntax: breaking apart the prepositional phrase κατὰ πάντα, we construe πάντα in hyperbaton as the direct object of the participle εἰδότα, meaning “the man who knows all things”, the perfectly antithetic characterization of the βροτοὶ εἰδότες οὐδὲν, “the mortals who know nothing” of fragment B6, and the preposition κατὰ in tmesis with the verb φέρει (“carry back, carry home”, “return”).
La restitución del cuerpo completo o, al menos, de la fisonomía general de una obra compuesta por... more La restitución del cuerpo completo o, al menos, de la fisonomía general de una obra compuesta por alguno de los pensadores presocráticos, recuperada como nuevo Pélope o Diónisos textual a partir de los disiecta membra recogidos por la tradición indirecta, se antoja como una suerte de rêve défendu para el filólogo o el historiador de la filosofía antigua. Por ello, Heraclitea IV. A Refectio constituye una de las empresas más ambiciosas que se conozcan en el estudio actual de la filosofía antigua, pues ofrece la primera reconstrucción integral, debida a Serge N. Mouraviev, de la estructura, el contenido e incluso la redacción misma del libro que Heráclito de Éfeso escribió hace alrededor de 2500 años.
Sobre este tema central, un grupo internacional de expertos entabla en este espacio una discusión científica, en diálogo constructivo con interpretaciones previas, sobre la muy particular fortuna de dicho libro y de las concepciones a las que sirvió de vehículo, con especial énfasis en el eco efectivo que tuvo en su época y en la posteridad, a partir de una valoración objetiva de la reconstrucción filológica y la lectura filosófica subyacentes a la nueva Refectio, sobre cuyos problemas todavía no resueltos o recién identificados aportan nuevas evidencias y propuestas exegéticas.
The sample pdf includes only the first two sections of the article, which is a selective bibliogr... more The sample pdf includes only the first two sections of the article, which is a selective bibliography with brief comments to every citation (121 items in all). Full access is available by subscription at the Oxford Bibliographies website. Here's the complete table of contents:
Introduction.
General Overviews.
Critical Editions and Commentaries.
Other Editions.
Bibliographies.
Studies.
Handbooks and Sourcebooks.
Collections of Articles.
Major Topics and Debates:
Heraclitus, Some Poets and Other Presocratics.
Language, Style, and Poetics.
Logos and Physis..
Unity of Opposites.
Flux.
Fire, Cosmology, and Cosmogony.
Soul.
Knowledge and Perception.
Ethics and Politics.
Religion and Theology.
Reception.
The paper focuses on a neglected instance of the Platonic reception of Heraclitus in the Republic... more The paper focuses on a neglected instance of the Platonic reception of Heraclitus in the Republic (II, 375e-376c), trying to show that it’s likely that Plato’s passage makes an allusion to Heraclitus’ B97 (“Dogs bark at whom they don’t know”) and B85 (“It’s difficult to fight θυμός, for what it longs for it pays with ψυχή”). The main claim is that Plato’s use of the image of dogs looks back to Heraclitus, which invites an exploration of the possibility that at least some elements of Plato’s kallipolis might derive from Heraclitus –particularly from some ethical and political fragments. A brief survey of these suggests a deep philosophical affinity among the two authors in several important areas (as the so-called ‘moral psychology and ‘ethical intellectualism’), and questions the commonplace traditional interpretation of Heraclitus as a defender of aristocratic morality.
KEYWORDS: Plato, Heraclitus, dogs, θυμός, φύλακες, δῆμος, πολλοί, ἄριστοι.
Reviews of Bibli #185, 191. Order of files and links: 1 is by Livio Rossetti (Ливио Россетти) in ... more Reviews of Bibli #185, 191. Order of files and links: 1 is by Livio Rossetti (Ливио Россетти) in Russian, 2 by Simon Trépanier in French, 3 (link) by Enrique Hülsz in English, 4 (link) by Livio Rossetti in Italian.
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This article deals with some textual and interpretive problems of DKB28
B1.3, a corrupted Parmenidean verse. Taking a glance at the Proem’s structure (which reveals a complex pentadic ring composition), and from a survey and discussion of the various conjectures hitherto proposed – particularly the rejection of κατὰ πάντ᾽ ἄστη as an emendation – we adopt as the original reading the following, accepting an upsilon as supplement, along the path of an old conjecture by G. Hermann, πάντ’ αὐτὴ, and two recent proposals by N. L. Cordero, πᾶν τα<ύ>τῃ, and A, Mourelatos, κατὰ … α<ὐ>τὴ<ν>:
ΔΑΙΜΟΝΟΣΗΚΑΤΑΠΑΝΤΑΥΤΗΦΕΡΕΙΕΙΔΟΤΑΦΩΤΑ
Our own conjecture, ἣ κατὰ πάντ’ αὖ τῇ φέρει εἰδότα φῶτα, “which [road] brings back again there the man who knows all things”, comes from a different analysis of the sequence ΑΥΤΗ, which we interpret as two words: the adverbs αὖ and τῇ. The verse thus looks forward to the methodological formulation in B5, and is a micro-image of the Proem as a whole, which puts in the foreground its eminently poetological character. Furthermore, our interpretation relies on the hypothesis that we are facing a case of discontinuous syntax: breaking apart the prepositional phrase κατὰ πάντα, we construe πάντα in hyperbaton as the direct object of the participle εἰδότα, meaning “the man who knows all things”, the perfectly antithetic characterization of the βροτοὶ εἰδότες οὐδὲν, “the mortals who know nothing” of fragment B6, and the preposition κατὰ in tmesis with the verb φέρει (“carry back, carry
home”, “return”).
Sobre este tema central, un grupo internacional de expertos entabla en este espacio una discusión científica, en diálogo constructivo con interpretaciones previas, sobre la muy particular fortuna de dicho libro y de las concepciones a las que sirvió de vehículo, con especial énfasis en el eco efectivo que tuvo en su época y en la posteridad, a partir de una valoración objetiva de la reconstrucción filológica y la lectura filosófica subyacentes a la nueva Refectio, sobre cuyos problemas todavía no resueltos o recién identificados aportan nuevas evidencias y propuestas exegéticas.
Papers by Enrique Hülsz
Introduction.
General Overviews.
Critical Editions and Commentaries.
Other Editions.
Bibliographies.
Studies.
Handbooks and Sourcebooks.
Collections of Articles.
Major Topics and Debates:
Heraclitus, Some Poets and Other Presocratics.
Language, Style, and Poetics.
Logos and Physis..
Unity of Opposites.
Flux.
Fire, Cosmology, and Cosmogony.
Soul.
Knowledge and Perception.
Ethics and Politics.
Religion and Theology.
Reception.
KEYWORDS: Plato, Heraclitus, dogs, θυμός, φύλακες, δῆμος, πολλοί, ἄριστοι.
Book Reviews by Enrique Hülsz
This article deals with some textual and interpretive problems of DKB28
B1.3, a corrupted Parmenidean verse. Taking a glance at the Proem’s structure (which reveals a complex pentadic ring composition), and from a survey and discussion of the various conjectures hitherto proposed – particularly the rejection of κατὰ πάντ᾽ ἄστη as an emendation – we adopt as the original reading the following, accepting an upsilon as supplement, along the path of an old conjecture by G. Hermann, πάντ’ αὐτὴ, and two recent proposals by N. L. Cordero, πᾶν τα<ύ>τῃ, and A, Mourelatos, κατὰ … α<ὐ>τὴ<ν>:
ΔΑΙΜΟΝΟΣΗΚΑΤΑΠΑΝΤΑΥΤΗΦΕΡΕΙΕΙΔΟΤΑΦΩΤΑ
Our own conjecture, ἣ κατὰ πάντ’ αὖ τῇ φέρει εἰδότα φῶτα, “which [road] brings back again there the man who knows all things”, comes from a different analysis of the sequence ΑΥΤΗ, which we interpret as two words: the adverbs αὖ and τῇ. The verse thus looks forward to the methodological formulation in B5, and is a micro-image of the Proem as a whole, which puts in the foreground its eminently poetological character. Furthermore, our interpretation relies on the hypothesis that we are facing a case of discontinuous syntax: breaking apart the prepositional phrase κατὰ πάντα, we construe πάντα in hyperbaton as the direct object of the participle εἰδότα, meaning “the man who knows all things”, the perfectly antithetic characterization of the βροτοὶ εἰδότες οὐδὲν, “the mortals who know nothing” of fragment B6, and the preposition κατὰ in tmesis with the verb φέρει (“carry back, carry
home”, “return”).
Sobre este tema central, un grupo internacional de expertos entabla en este espacio una discusión científica, en diálogo constructivo con interpretaciones previas, sobre la muy particular fortuna de dicho libro y de las concepciones a las que sirvió de vehículo, con especial énfasis en el eco efectivo que tuvo en su época y en la posteridad, a partir de una valoración objetiva de la reconstrucción filológica y la lectura filosófica subyacentes a la nueva Refectio, sobre cuyos problemas todavía no resueltos o recién identificados aportan nuevas evidencias y propuestas exegéticas.
Introduction.
General Overviews.
Critical Editions and Commentaries.
Other Editions.
Bibliographies.
Studies.
Handbooks and Sourcebooks.
Collections of Articles.
Major Topics and Debates:
Heraclitus, Some Poets and Other Presocratics.
Language, Style, and Poetics.
Logos and Physis..
Unity of Opposites.
Flux.
Fire, Cosmology, and Cosmogony.
Soul.
Knowledge and Perception.
Ethics and Politics.
Religion and Theology.
Reception.
KEYWORDS: Plato, Heraclitus, dogs, θυμός, φύλακες, δῆμος, πολλοί, ἄριστοι.