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L'aporie ou l'expérience des limites de la pensée dans le Péri Archôn de Damaskios

by Carolle Tresson-Metry
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789004207325
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 512
  • Original Price: GBP 265.6
  • Language: French
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 976 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical

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.

L'apor�tique radicale du trait� des Principes Premiers du n�oplatonicien Damaskios doit �tre comprise comme �tant l'unique voie d'acc�s vers une compr�hension diff�rente, sup�rieure et purifi�e des principes premiers et de nous-m�mes. Autant qu'une qu�te des r�alit�s primordiales, ce trait� est une r�flexion sur les processus et les limites de la pens�e humaine dans ses rapports avec les principes premiers. Ce pr�sent livre montre les raisons du surgissement de telles apories, leur sens et leur r�le paradoxalement salvateur en d�non�ant les plus hautes imperfections de nos discours, les pi�ges insoup�onn�s de nos m�canismes cognitifs et l'inad�quation funeste de nos conceptions concernant les premiers principes. Le r�sultat est un regard neuf et une compr�hension d�dramatis�e de cette apor�tique extr�me et fascinante.

Carolle Metry-Tresson, Dr. sc. religieuses (2009), EPHE of Paris and Dr. ès lettres (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) in Ancient Philosophy. She has worked in particular on late Neoplatonism.

Carolle Metry-Tresson, Dr. sc. religieuses (2009), EPHE à Paris, et Dr. ès lettres (Université de Fribourg, Suisse) en philosophie ancienne. Elle a particulièrement travaillé sur le Néoplatonisme tardif.

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