La Puissance de L'intelligible

La nature des Formes intelligibles dAntiochus Plotin. Louvrage propose une histoire de linterprtation de la nature des Formes intelligibles dAntiochus Plotin. Il met en lumire limportance du refus plotinien de lartificialisme mdioplatonicien qui considre les Formes comme des penses du dieu et subordonne leur causalit celle du dmiurge, fabricant du monde. En considrant les Formes comme des ralits vivantes et intellectives, Plotin bouleverse le sens de la causalit paradigmatique de lintelligible. Il reprend les concepts de la thologie aristotlicienne, les dtourne et les met au service dune thorie de la causalit des intelligibles qui rpond aux objections du Stagirite contre lhypothse des Formes. Sappuyant sur lidentit de lintellect et des intelligibles, il montre que cest prcisment en restant en elles-mmes que les Formes exercent une puissance gnrative, productrice du sensible. The nature of intelligible Forms from Antiochus to Plotinus. The nature of intelligible Forms received different interpretations from various ancient Platonists. This book sketches the history of these interpretations from Antiochus to Plotinus and shows the radical transformation this theory underwent in the hands of the latter. Pre-Plotinian Platonists considered the Forms as thoughts of god and made the causal role of the Forms depend on the craftsman-god. Plotinus rejected this artificialist model. Instead he considered the Forms as living and intellective realities and thereby turned the paradigmatic causality of the intelligible on its head. The Forms are themselves active and the demiurge is no longer needed as a causal agent separate from the Forms. Plotinus incorporated key concepts of Aristotelian theology and included them in a doctrine of the causality of the Forms, thus overcoming Aristotles objections against Platonic Forms. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).