The latinization of the Greek vocabulary of being in Boethius' de Hebdomadibus

• Grant number: 13/02870-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: April 30, 2013
• End date: October 29, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: José Carlos Estêvão
• Grantee: Adriano Martinho Correia da Silva
• Supervisor: Christophe Grellard
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/15787-0 - The Latinization of the Greek Vocabulary of Being in Boethius, BP.MS

Abstract

The philosophical problem which is in question is how to interpret the Boethian claim that substances are good because they are. By this does Boethius mean that predicating Being from substances (i.e., saying 'substances are') hence it is possible to predicate conversely that they 'are good'? Would Being and Goodness then be convertible to one another, and then co-extensive? Or could it still be the case that Being implies being good, but Goodness does not imply Being? Goodness, therefore, as in Plato, would be more extensive than Being, and Being would imply Goodness, since every Being is good? These are the questions that interest us in this project. (AU)