| Grant number: | 18/14732-7 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |
| Start date: | June 01, 2019 |
| End date: | May 31, 2021 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy |
| Principal Investigator: | Mauricio Pagotto Marsola |
| Grantee: | Federico Croci |
| Host Institution: | Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil |
Abstract The aim of the research project is to analyse the reception and the evolution of the sceptical tradition in the philosophy of Damascius, the last great exponent of the Greek Neoplatonic School. Probably, Damascius developed intuitions of Iamblichus. He affirmed the need to think the principle as absolutely ineffable. His epistemology is explicitly sceptical: it is not possible, he wrote, affirming or denying anything of the ineffable; saying that it is the principle is already excessive; we can not conclude anything, nor that we have a knowledge of the ineffable, nor, as Arcesilaus has already said, that we have ignorance about it. The aporia becomes the structure of thinking: differently from other neoplatonists, Damascius denies that there is an ontological or epistemological positivity of the principle. Thus, he concludes that proving is tantamount to torture. Damascius thinking is a development of the scepticism because it leads to extreme consequences the platonic application of aporia to protology: the aporia, therefore, is not conceived only as an instrument, but is the structure of the soul, even the beginning and destiny of all its cognitive efforts. (AU) | |
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