Plato Revived Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Herausgegeben von Michael Erler, Dorothee Gall, Ludwig Koenen und Clemens Zintzen Band 317 Plato Revived Essays on Ancient Platonism in Honour of Dominic J. O’Meara Edited by Filip Karfík and Euree Song ISBN 978-3-11-032440-2 e-ISBN 978-3-11-032466-2 ISSN 1616-0452 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.dnb.de abrufbar. © 2013 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Druck und Bindung: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ∞ Gedruckt auf säurefreiem Papier Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Dominic J. O’Meara Preface This Festschrift was planned to honour Dominic J. O’Meara on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Born on May 14th, 1948 in Dublin, he is the son of John J. O’Meara, a great scholar of Eriugena and Augustine, and Odile, a gracious French woman. He studied at Cambridge, in an age of anxiety in Irish-English relations, followed by doctoral work in Paris, his mother’s native city, under the supervision of Pierre Hadot, a longstanding source of inspiration for him. He then moved to the United States, where he was a junior and visiting fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies and first Assistant, then Associate Professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington until 1984. Awarded the Chair of Ancient Phi- losophy and Metaphysics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, he returned to Europe and devoted himself for a quarter century to teaching and research until his retirement in 2009. Dominic J. O’Meara is one of the pioneering scholars who contributed to the revival of the study of Late Antiquity, particularly Neoplatonism. The mention of his name immediately calls to mind his major works: Structures hiérarchiques dans la pensée de Plotin (1975), Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity (1989), Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads (1993), and Pla- tonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity (2003), which all show his meticulous and thorough mind as well as his fresh and thought-provoking ingenuity. His numerous articles on ancient and early medieval philosophy have been collected in two further volumes: The Structure of Being and the Search for the Good (1989) and Sur les traces de l’Absolu (2013). He is also known as the editor of the philosophical treatises of Michael Psellos for the Bibliotheca Teubneriana and as a translator of Plotinus into French and of Syrianus into English. Over the years he has been one of the editors of the Vestigia series, founded by himself and Ruedi Imbach and published jointly in Fribourg and Paris, and he is cur- rently one of the editors of the Écrits de Plotin at the Éditions du Cerf. Not only is he member of several renowned learned societies, but he has also contributed a great deal over the years to international gatherings such as those of the Ploti- nus Colloquium and the Academia Platonica Septima Monasteriensis. Besides the distinguished reputation he enjoys as a scholar, his extraordinary gentleness and generosity have attracted many students and scholars to Fribourg and have made from this small, idyllic city a Hochburg of Neoplatonic studies. As Professor Emer- itus, he has not become a ‘hermit’ leading an ‘unnoticed life’, but has remained active at the university as a vigorous researcher and a passionate teacher, while VIII   Preface making himself available far beyond the borders of Switzerland: from Helsinki in the North to Brasilia in the South, from New York in the West to Seoul in the East, to name just the four main points of the compass. This volume contains a collection of essays on various forms of revival of Platonism in ancient philosophy and beyond. It consists of contributions by experts in the field of Platonic and Neoplatonic studies from twelve countries. It is intended as a homage to a scholar and teacher who has done so much to explore this vast and often not easily accessible territory. Particular attention has been paid to the topics essential to his own research: unity, intellect and beauty, soul and body, virtue and happiness, as well as the political and religious dimen- sions of Plato’s legacy. The main sections of the volume highlight these topics. At the end of the volume, the reader will find a testimony to Dominic O’Meara as a teacher of philosophy as a way of life and an exhaustive list of his scholarly works. The title Plato Revived was chosen partly because it happily resonates with the title Dominic O’Meara’s influential book Pythagoras Revived, but more impor- tantly in order to indicate the extraordinary capacity of the basic tenets of Platon- ism for renewal and transformation. As editors, we wish to express our gratitude to all contributors, who have joined in the making of this Festschrift with their valuable studies despite the short time limit we imposed on them. Our heartfelt thanks go to those who have helped in producing this volume, Marianne Garin, Chad Jorgenson, and Richard Schorlemmer for their assistance in editing contributions in their respective native languages. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Fri- bourg financially supported the typesetting of this volume, executed with great professional skill by Martin Tresnak. Last, but not least, we are deeply grateful to Michael Erler for accepting this volume in the prestigious series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde. The Editors Table of Contents Preface  VII Unity, Intellect, Beauty Werner Beierwaltes Plotins Theorie des Schönen und der Kunst  3 Alexandrine Schniewind Le statut des objets intelligibles chez Alexandre d’Aphrodise et Plotin  27 Pascal Mueller-Jourdan « Toute pluralité participe en quelque manière de l’un » Le premier théorème des Éléments de théologie de Proclus revisité par le Pseudo-Denys l’Aréopagite  41 Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson Leibniz, Plato, Plotinus  54 Soul and Body John Dillon Shadows on the Soul: Plotinian Approaches to a Solution of the Mind-Body Problem  73 Filip Karfík Δημογέροντες L’image de l’assemblée dans les Ennéades VI, 4 [22], 15  85 Euree Song Ashamed of Being in the Body? Plotinus versus Porphyry  96 Lenka Karfíková Das Verhältnis von Seele und ratio in Augustins Abhandlung De immortalitate animae  117 X   Table of Contents Happiness and Virtue László Bene Ethics and Metaphysics in Plotinus  141 Marie-Luise Lakmann „…die feine Stimme der Zikaden“ Iunkos, Περὶ γήρως und die platonische Philosophie  162 Suzanne Stern-Gillet When Virtue Bids Us Abandon Life (Ennead VI 8 [39] 6, 14–26)  182 Daniela P. Taormina Porfirio ha scritto un trattato Περὶ τοῦ ἐφ’ ἡμῖν?  199 Christian Tornau Augustinus und die neuplatonischen Tugendgrade Versuch einer Interpretation von Augustins Brief 155 an Macedonius  215 Irmgard Männlein-Robert Platonismus als ‚Philosophie des Glücks‘: Programm, Symbolik und Form in der Vita Procli des Marinos  241 Platonopolis Rafael Ferber Das Paradox von der Philosophenherrschaft im Staat, Staatsmann und in den Gesetzen Einige Bemerkungen zur Einheit und Variation des platonischen Denkens  261 Cinzia Arruzza Being True to One’s Birth: What is gennaion in the Noble Falsehood of the Republic?  278