Open AccessLimite, illimitato, prima mescolanza: il ruolo del "Filebo" nel "De animae procreatione in Timaeo" di Plutarco
Author(s) -
Francesco Caruso
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plato journal/plato
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2183-4105
pISSN - 2079-7567
DOI - 10.14195/2183-4105_21_9
Subject(s) - exegesis , philosophy , soul , scholarship , epistemology , cosmogony , literature , theology , art , law , political science
Recent scholarship has recognized some thematic connections related to onto-cosmological issues between two late Platonic dialogues, such as Philebus and Timaeus, and has tried to explain them in different ways. The aim of this paper is to contribute to such a debate by analysing an ancient exegesis of Timaeus 35a1-b4, that of Plutarch of Chaeronea, which made use of the ontological sections of the Philebus (16c-17a and 23c-27c) in his treatise on the cosmogony of the Timaeus. More specifically, this analysis will show that the notions of ‘limit’ and ‘unlimitedness’ played a decisive role in the shaping of the “essence” of the world-soul according to Plutarch.