Mtaphysique d'Ibn Gabirol et de la tradition platonicienne

Early in his career, Fernand Brunner became one of the few specialists on Ibn Gabirol, a Jewish philosopher and poet in 11th-century Spain, whose treatise, the Fons vitae, is known only in Latin translation. Brunner showed the coherence of this rarely studied version of Platonism and traced its impact on the scholastic philosophy of the succeeding centuries. His work was guided by a systematic interest in Platonic solutions to such problems as the relations of matter and form, and of God to the world. This volume includes a number of previously unpublished papers, several of which also provide broad expositions of a Platonic ontology. The author makes his reader aware that arguments as well as images must be taken seriously in the attempt to approach the Platonic tradition. Ds le dbut de sa carrire, Fernand Brunner est rapidement devenu lun des rares spcialistes dIbn Gabirol, le pote philosophe juif espagnol du 11e sicle - dont le trait, le Fons vit, nest connu quen version latine. Guid dans ses recherches par un intrt systmatique pour les solutions platoniciennes aux problmes des rapports entre la forme et la matire, et entre Dieu et le monde, Brunner a dmontr la cohrence de cette interprtation rarement tudie du platonisme et en a retrac leffet sur la philosophie scolastique des sicles suivants. Ce volume comprend plusieurs exposs indits traitant de lontologie platonicienne dont la comprhension, selon Brunner, est essentielle tout historien de la philosophie. Lauteur fait prendre conscience ses lecteurs de limportance des arguments, tout comme des mtaphores, dans toute tentative dapproche de la tradition platonique.