La costituzione dell’anima cosmica in Calcidio

Name: La costituzione dell’anima cosmica in Calcidio
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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA

Fascicolo

RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA - 2019 - 3

Titolo

La costituzione dell’anima cosmica in Calcidio

The Constitution of the Cosmic Soul in Calcidius

Autore

Claudia Lo Casto

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

Formato

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10-2019

Doi

10.26350/001050_000128

Issn

0035-6247 (stampa) | 1827-7926 (digitale)

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Among the reasons that contribute to making the Commentary of Calcidius to the Timaeus a document of considerable interest, the question of the sources and the choice of the text, common to many medioplatonic commentators, should be considered. The Commentary is not only an interesting attestation of the exegesis of the Timaeus in the imperial age and of the presence of the reception of Platonism in the Latin world, but it is also a significant example of the non-integral translation of the Platonic text. The Latin commentator, as we will try to demonstrate in this contribution, seems to have a real exegetical intention: to express the demiurge’s point of view in the construction of the sensitive cosmos. Calcidius does not seem, in fact, to dedicate a relevant space to the description of the characteristics of the intelligible form in itself (species), but rather to its function as an exemplum, a model in the generation of the sensitive cosmos.