| Grant number: | 18/10643-0 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |
| Start date: | August 01, 2018 |
| End date: | July 31, 2022 |
| Field of knowledge: | Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Literatures |
| Principal Investigator: | José Marcos Mariani de Macedo |
| Grantee: | Pedro Barbieri Antunes |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
Abstract The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection attributed to Hermes Trismegistus composed of 18 brief treatises of pedagogical-sapiential character, written around the I-III centuries A.D. Alternating between religion, mysticism and philosophical speculation, these texts deal with the creation of the world, the human conduct and its ontological potential. I intend to study the representative structures of Hermetism and demonstrate how the origin of the cosmos (arkhé) and human salvation (télos) were aligned, that is, how the beginning and the end present a necessary interdependence in this doctrine. In order to do so, these texts are guided by a binary evaluation of the entities that make up the universe, based on the concepts of immortality (positive) and mortality (negative). Human ascension would correspond to the rehabilitation of man to his first natural condition, properly divine and immortal, latent in his capacity for epiphanic intellection, gnosis, an itinerary that suggests a consubstantiality between macrocosmic causality and individual purpose. To accompany the study, I will present as an appendix a complete translation of the entire Corpus Hermeticum, from the text established by Nock and Festugière (1945, 1960). | |
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