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La notion d'Intelligence (nous-noein) dans la Grèce antique

De Homère au Platonisme
The Notion of Intelligence in Ancient Greece (nous-noein). From Homer to Platonism.
Edited by Fabio Stella

The present issue brings together contributions from international specialists on the question of νόος-νοεῖν, with the aim of reconstructing a history of terms relating to intelligence and its pursuits in Ancient Greece. It is a matter of tracing, without claiming to be exhaustive, the broad outlines of the evolution of these terms, by endeavoring to delve into some of their most significant stages. Of course, each article also—or above all—has value in its own right and can be read within its specific field of study, in isolation from possible perspectives regarding their general evolution.

There is certainly no shortage of studies on the subject, some dedicated to the genesis of the lexicon and of the concepts in question, as well as to certain parts of the evolutionary path belonging to the term νοῦς. However, the approach proposed in this collection of studies is novel insofar as it strives to elaborate on the constitution and evolution of the concept nous within a corpus which is not limited to the philosophers’ canonical texts; this issue thus allows us to fill a particularly important gap in the historical-philosophic-linguistic literature on Greek antiquity—especially if one considers the importance of the noetic faculty in Western tradition, along with all the controversies permeating it.

This group of contributors is thus composed of specialists of the ancient Greek world who combine philosophy and philology; and their research therefore has, as its direct object, the origin of the terms and their use by Homer and Hesiod, the lyricists and the “first thinkers”, Xenophanes, Anaxagoras, the tragedians, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and the Neoplatonists.

Fabio Stella

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