E-Aristotelizing: a collaborative dream

E-ARISTOTELIZING

A COLLABORATIVE DREAM

by Silvia Fazzo

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colloque international de la

S.I.H.S.P.A.I.

Naples, 9-11 Septembre 2019

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E-• Aristotelizing

• A collaborative

• Dream

E-ARISTOTELIZING

A COLLABORATIVE DREAM

PEACE

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS IS

PEACE

AMONG NATIONS AND

AMONG FELLOWMEN

but there is no

peace without

dialogue

True Dialogue is a rare

per se benefit,

but what counts for one?

• Not any seeming dialogue is true dialogue: Aristotle warned us agaist false dialogues,

• False dialogues occur when people, whether they use or not the same words, do not speak about the same subject

matter

• True dialogue has to be on the same subject matter. It does not need to be about simple items or objects. Complexity is not an obstacle but a ressource for dialogue.

• True dialogue occurs when people discuss about well defined problems and theoretical issues: e.g. Aristotle’s text

Why Scholars never cease discussing on

Aristotle’s texts and theories?

• 1. Striving for a more precise

constitution

of Aristotle’s texts

• MS E = Paris. gr. 1853, X sec. : Aristotle’s

Metaphysics

Why Scholars never cease discussing on

Aristotle’s texts and theories?

• 2. Striving for a closer

understanding

Aristotle’s texts

• MS Leiden or. 2074, Averroes’

Great Commentary on

Why Scholars never cease discussing on

Aristotle’s texts and theories?

• 3. Further

building theories

based on

Aristotelian principles

• 4. Opposing Aristotle’s theories

• ALL OF THESE ARE FRUITFUL

PATHS FOR TRUE DIALOGUE, IN

1 WORD:…

ἀριστοτελίζειν

Aristotelize

dealing with Aristotle’s texts and theories

(Strabo 2. 3. 8. 24; 13. 1. 54.28).

mes communications SIHSPAI 1993-2019:

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1. “L'Alexandre Arabe et la génération à partir du néant” Paris, 31/3-3/4/1993

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•2. “Nicolas le Péripatéticien, dit le Damascène: notes pour une étude”, Firenze, 16-18

febbraio 2006

• 3. “Alexander of Aphrodisias’ ‘fragment Zero”, Paris, octobre 2014 (con M. Zonta)

•4. “E-Aristotelizing : a collaborative dream” Naples 9-11 septembre 2019

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Hand Out Colloque International S.I.H.S.P.A.I. - Paris

2014

Dealing with Aristotle’s texts:

interactivity and collaborativity

• interactivity: a first web experience

had not Ibn Rushd written his commentaries on Aristotle,

our world would not be so firmly bridged to the Greek