The Latinization of the Greek Vocabulary of Being in Boethius

• Grant number: 11/15787-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: José Carlos Estêvão
• Grantee: Adriano Martinho Correia da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 13/02870-2 - The latinization of the Greek vocabulary of being in Boethius' de Hebdomadibus, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

Boethius wrote a series of theological treatises. The one which interests us directly became known as de Hebdomadibus, because of an esoteric textual reference to the number seven, which one does not know for certain if it was the number of days that he discussed with an interlocutor, or still, maybe, the number of fundamental axioms necessary for the discussion of his question (though there are nine axioms, they can be reduced to seven). The question which animates our research is the consolidation of the philosophic vocabulary of being, by means of the latinization of Aristotle by the neoplatonism of late antiquity; in this Boethius is the main representative, as his most original work: the little treatise de Hebdomadibus, which is precisely about the question of how can substances be good in virtue of the fact that they have being when they are not substantial goods.

Academic Publications

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SILVA, Adriano Martinho Correia da. The latinization of the Greek vocabulary of being in Boethius de Hebdomadibus. 2015. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.