Not another history of Platonism. The role of Aristotle's criticisms of Plato in the development of ancient Platonism

Project Information

PlatoViaAristotle

Grant agreement ID: 885273

DOI

10.3030/885273

EC signature date 27 April 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 335 911,25

EU contribution

€ 2 335 911,00

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

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Publications

Book chapters (12)

Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Platonic dialectic

Author(s): Jan Opsomer
Published in: Reading Proclus and the Book of causes, vol. 3: On causes and the noetic triad, 2022, Page(s) 17-36, ISBN 978-90-04-50132-4
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004501331_003

Aporie, science et ontologie : le commentaire d’Asclépius à Métaphysique B 1 (137.1-143.5)

Author(s): Jan Opsomer
Published in: Le commentaire d’Asclépius aux livres A-Γ de la Métaphysique d’Aristote. Textes choisis et commentaires, 2023, Page(s) 275-312, ISBN 9782870602010
Publisher: Ousia

Organiser la philosophie selon ses éléments. Structures argumentatives dans les Éléments de Théologie

Author(s): Jan Opsomer
Published in: Relire les Éléments de théologie de Proclus: Réceptions, interprétations antiques et moderne, 2021, Page(s) 133 - 176, ISBN 979-1-0370-0889-3
Publisher: Hermann

The use of Stoic references in Simplicius' discussion of quality

Author(s): Mareike Hauer
Published in: Dealing with Disagreement. The Construction of Traditions in Later Ancient Philosophy, 2022, Page(s) 169 - 184, ISBN 978-2-503-60284-4
Publisher: Brepols
DOI: 10.1484/m.mon-eb.5.132753

Plato’s Isolation of a Kind Being or Why in the <i>Sophist</i> to Be Is Not to Be Something

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2025, Page(s) 1-52, ISBN 9780198934547
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198934547.003.0001

Standards of Argument in Nicholas of Methone and Proclus: Comparing the Elementatio theologica with Nicholas’ Attempts to Disarm It

Author(s): Jan Opsomer
Published in: Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium, 2025, Page(s) 139-166
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004512900_007

Matter and evil

Author(s): Jan Opsomer
Published in: The new Cambridge companion to Plotinus, 2022, Page(s) 341-362, ISBN 978-1-108-48834-1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781108770255.015

Essence, puissance et activité dans la philosophie de la nature de Proclus

Author(s): Jan Opsomer
Published in: Essence, puissance, activité dans la philosophie et les savoirs grecs, 2022, Page(s) 223-246, ISBN 978-2-406-13131-1
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13131-1.p.0223

Introduction

Author(s): Albert Joosse, Angela Ulacco
Published in: Dealing with disagreement. The construction of traditions in later ancient philosophy, 2022, Page(s) 7-18, ISBN 978-2-503-60284-4
Publisher: Brepols
DOI: 10.1484/m.mon-eb.5.132744

Simplicius’ categorial analysis of differentiae

Author(s): Mareike Hauer
Published in: Aristoteles-Kommentare und ihre Überlieferung. Wichtige Etappen von der Antike bis in die frühe Neuzeit, 2023, Page(s) 269-291, ISBN 978-3-11-124437-2
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783111295107-008

Spuren einer wissenschaftlichen platonischen Theologie in Salustios’ De deis’

Author(s): Jan Opsomer
Published in: Die pagane Theologie des Philosophen Salustios, eingeleitet, übersetzt und mit interpretierenden Essays versehen von Nicole Belayche, Robbert M. van den Berg, Adrien Lecerf, Detlef Melsbach und Jan Opsomer; herausgegeben von Detlef Melsbach, 2022, Page(s) 115-138, ISBN 9783161576676
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Riferimento, essere e partecipazione. Prm. 160b5-163b6 e il Sofista

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: Plato’s Parmenides, 2022, Page(s) 411-424, ISBN 978-3-98572-020-0
Publisher: Academia Verlag within Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft

Peer reviewed articles (23)

Aristotle on Platonic Efficient Causes. A Rehabilitation

Author(s): Rareș Ilie Marinescu
Published in: Elenchos, Issue 45, 2024, Page(s) 203-228, ISSN 0392-7342
Publisher: Bibliopolis, Edizioni Di Filosofia E Scienze
DOI: 10.1515/elen-2024-0012

Aristotle's On the Good and the 'Categorial Reduction Argument’

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: Mnemosyne, Issue 78, 2025, Page(s) 29-47, ISSN 1568-525X
Publisher: Brill

Di destini umani, punizioni e corpi animali. Ps.-Timeo di Locri e l’esegesi di Timeo 90e1-92c90

Author(s): Angela Ulacco
Published in: Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, 2023, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 1827-7926
Publisher: Vita e pensiero

Unmixed Forms and Ordered Sensibles

Author(s): Roberto Granieri, null null
Published in: Ancient Philosophy, Issue 44, 2024, Page(s) 83-97, ISSN 0740-2007
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
DOI: 10.5840/ancientphil20244415

Nature as an Instrumental Cause in Proclus

Author(s): Rareș Ilie Marinescu
Published in: Apeiron, Issue 56.4, 2023, Page(s) 673-692, ISSN 0003-6390
Publisher: De Gruyter

Une occasion manquée? La critique implicite de la chôra dans le livre III du De caelo d’Aristote

Author(s): Mai-Lan Boureau
Published in: Chôra. Revue d’Études Anciennes et Médiévales, Issue 20, 2022, Page(s) 71-91, ISSN 1583-8617
Publisher: Editura Polirom

Circular Motion and Circular Thought: A Synthetic Approach to the Fifth Element in Aristotle’s de Philosophia and de Caelo

Author(s): Franziska van Buren
Published in: Apeiron, 2021, ISSN 0003-6390
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/apeiron-2021-0014

Bonaventure, Aristotle, and the Being of Universal Forms

Author(s): Franziska van Buren
Published in: Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Issue 9, 2021, Page(s) 187-221, ISSN 2472-307X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192844637.003.0005

Sacrifici non cruenti, giustizia inter-specie e comunità. Osservazioni su alcuni passaggi della Vita Pitagorica di Giamblico

Author(s): Angela Ulacco
Published in: Archivio di Filosofia - Archives of Philosophy, 2023, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 1970-0792
Publisher: Fabrizio Serra editore

Hermodorus of Syracuse and Sextus Empiricus' 'Pythagoreans' on Categories and Principles

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: The Classical Quarterly, Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 0009-8388
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000423

ISAGOGICAL PATTERNS IN ANCIENT TEXTS - (A.) Motta, (F.M.) Petrucci (edd.) Isagogical Crossroads from the Early Imperial Age to the End of Antiquity. (Philosophia Antiqua 164.) Pp. xii + 269. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. Cased, €130, US$156. ISBN: 978-90-04-50618-3.

Author(s): Mareike Hauer
Published in: The Classical Review, Issue 74, 2024, Page(s) 617-620, ISSN 0009-840X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0009840x24000039

Plato on the Power of Dialectic and the Necessity of Forms

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: Rhizomata, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 51-78, ISSN 2196-5110
Publisher: Brill

The Chicken or the Egg? Aristotle on Speusippus’ Reasons to Deny the Principle is (the) Good

Author(s): Giulia De Cesaris
Published in: Apeiron, 2022, ISSN 2156-7093
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/apeiron-2021-0074

L'​ontologie du plaisir dans le Philèbe et le vocabulaire platonicien de l'être

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: Philosophie antique, Issue 21, 2021, Page(s) 179-203, ISSN 1634-4561
Publisher: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
DOI: 10.4000/philosant.5280

Is Being a Genus? Syrianus’ Criticism of Aristotle

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: Phronesis, Issue 67.2, 2022, Page(s) 216-251, ISSN 0031-8868
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15685284-bja10056

Relativity, Categories and Principles in the diuisio aristotelea 67M/32DL

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Issue 142, 2023, Page(s) 204-218, ISSN 0075-4269
Publisher: Council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
DOI: 10.1017/s0075426922000076

Plutarch’s Predecessors in the Exegesis of Plato

Author(s): Jan Opsomer
Published in: Studia graeco-arabica, Issue 1, 2025, Page(s) 301-321, ISSN 2281-2687
Publisher: Pisa University Press
DOI: 10.12871/979125608070018

Being and the Philosopher’s Object in Plato’s Sophist

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: Apeiron, Issue 45, 2023, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 2156-7093
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/apeiron-2023-0045

Filosofia, esegesi e pseudepigrafia negli Pseudopythagorica

Author(s): Angela Ulacco
Published in: Syzetesis - Rivista di filosofia, 2024, Page(s) 303-314, ISSN 1974-5044
Publisher: Associazione Filosofica

That In Virtue of Which Something Is a Being. Note on Damascius, De Principiis II, p. 75.10-11 Westerink

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: Studia graeco-arabica, Issue 13, 2023, Page(s) 2239-012X, ISSN 2281-2687
Publisher: Pisa University Press
DOI: 10.12871/97888333988153

Marsilio Ficino and the Soul: Doctrinal and Argumentative Remarks Regarding His Use of the Elements of Physics and the Elements of Theology

Author(s): Sokratis-Athanasios Kiosoglou
Published in: Philosophies, Issue 10, 2025, Page(s) 14, ISSN 2409-9287
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/philosophies10010014

Not-Being, Contradiction and Difference. Simplicius vs Alexander of Aphrodisias on Plato’s Conception of Not-Being’

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: Méthexis, Issue 35, 2023, Page(s) 185-200, ISSN 0327-0289
Publisher: Brill

Monism and Difference: Syrianus, Aristotle and the Sophist’

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: Revue de philosophie ancienne, Issue 42, 2024, Page(s) 281-316, ISSN 0771-5420
Publisher: Revue de Philosophie Ancienne

Conference proceedings (1)

An Aristotelian Account of Universal Knowledge in the Thought of St. Bonaventure

Author(s): Franziska van Buren
Published in: International Conference: Ut bon(aventurian)I fiamus, Studies in St. Bonaventure on the Occasion of the 800th Anniversary of His Birth, 2022, Page(s) 31-41
Publisher: University of Ljubljana Press; Editiones Collegii S. Bonaventurae ad Claras Aquas

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Review of J. Moss, Plato’s Epistemology. Being and Seeming. Oxford University Press, New York 2021

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Issue 2021.12.02, 2021, ISSN 1063-2948
Publisher: Thomas Library, Bryn Mawr College

ΟΜΙΛΙΑ ΜΕ ΘΕΜΑ: Philosophy in quest of geometric rigour. The ancient Greek roots of a venerable tradition

Author(s): Jan Opsomer
Published in: ΕΠΙΣΗΜΟΙ ΛΟΓΟΙ. ΠΡΥΤΑΝΕΙΑ ΜΕΛΕΤΙΟΥ-ΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΟΥ K. ΔΗΜΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ, ΤΟΜΟΣ 38ος, ΑΚΑΔΗΜΑΪΚΑ ΕΤΗ 2020-2022, B´ΜΕΡΟΣ, Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 208-217, ISSN 2654-1750
Publisher: εκδόσεις Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών

Monographic books (5)

Dealing with disagreement. The construction of traditions in later ancient philosophy

Author(s): Albert Joosse, Angela Ulacco
Published in: Monothéismes et philosophie, 2022, ISBN 978-2-503-60284-4
Publisher: Brepols
DOI: 10.1484/m.mon-eb.5.131817

An Introduction to the Metaphysics of John Peckham: Texts and Translations of the Summa de Esse et Essentia and Selected Quodlibetal Questions with Commentary

Author(s): Franziska van Buren
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Marquette University Press

Plotinus on individuation. A study of Ennead V.7 [18]. Text, Translation, and Commentary

Author(s): Ina Schall
Published in: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Series I, Issue LXVII, 2025, ISBN 978941665966
Publisher: Leuven University Press

Conoscere l’essere. Platone, Aristotele e la costruzione della filosofia prima

Author(s): Roberto Granieri
Published in: 2024, ISBN 978-88-15-38905-3
Publisher: Il Mulino

Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure

Author(s): Franziska van Buren
Published in: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1, Issue 63, 2023, ISBN 94-6166-490-7
Publisher: Leuven University Press
DOI: 10.11116/9789461664884

Other (2)

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Author(s): Daniele Morrone
Published in: 2023
Publisher: University of Bologna

Review of NEWMYER (S.T.) (ed.) Plutarch's Three Treatises on Animals: A Translation with Introductions and Commentary (Routledge Classical Translations). New York, NY: Routledge, 2021

Author(s): Daniele Morrone
Published in: Journal of Hellenic Studies, Issue 143, 2023, Page(s) 387-389
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0075426923000563