This study enquires into Numenius’ ontological and cosmological views. The former section concerning ontology outlines Numenius’ theory of being: given that anything which is must persist, eventually I shall conclude that the demiurge embracing the formal paradigm persists depending on a further god, the first god, who in turn persist on himself. Conversely everflowing matter not only does not persist, but also prevents bodies formed by impress onto it from persisting. Consistently, the world qua body cannot persist either, but its arrangement imitating intelligible order itself can: thus, the world qua cosmos quasi-persists. The latter section, dealing with cosmology, ultimately explains how the demiurge acts in order to make the world quasi-persist. So, I shall argue that Numenius can be credited with a peculiarly temporalist cosmogony accounting for the precosmos as an analytical scenario: with no precosmic disorder prior to it, first the demiurge crafts the cosmos through a punctual, direct intervention upon matter, and then takes care of the cosmos he has arranged steering it by means of the forms.
Numenio di Apamea. Saggio su ontologia e cosmologia medioplatonica
DE ANDREIS, GIACOMO
2022/2023
Abstract
This study enquires into Numenius’ ontological and cosmological views. The former section concerning ontology outlines Numenius’ theory of being: given that anything which is must persist, eventually I shall conclude that the demiurge embracing the formal paradigm persists depending on a further god, the first god, who in turn persist on himself. Conversely everflowing matter not only does not persist, but also prevents bodies formed by impress onto it from persisting. Consistently, the world qua body cannot persist either, but its arrangement imitating intelligible order itself can: thus, the world qua cosmos quasi-persists. The latter section, dealing with cosmology, ultimately explains how the demiurge acts in order to make the world quasi-persist. So, I shall argue that Numenius can be credited with a peculiarly temporalist cosmogony accounting for the precosmos as an analytical scenario: with no precosmic disorder prior to it, first the demiurge crafts the cosmos through a punctual, direct intervention upon matter, and then takes care of the cosmos he has arranged steering it by means of the forms.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14240/103851