Plutarch’s Theory of Cosmological Powers in the De Iside et Osiride
Plutarch’s Theory of Cosmological Powers in the De Iside et Osiride
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普鲁塔克《De Iside et Osiride》中的宇宙力理论
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10.1515/apeiron-2015-0047
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2016
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F. Petrucci
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Abstract The Platonic section of the De Iside (chapters 45–64) offers a complex account of Plutarch’s theory of cosmological principles. In this paper I shall supplement conventional interpretations and set out to demonstrate that: Osiris is the whole of the “positive” and ordering powers operating within the actual (that is, post-creational) world; Typhon is not the pre-cosmic soul, but the negative and destructive powers at work within it; Isis is not mere matter or the world soul, but the world soul as the material “battlefield” for opposite powers in the world; the object of Plutarch’s analysis is not the pre-cosmic world, but the post-creational stage. Finally, I shall explain the logic of Plutarch’s account, which fits with the literary genre he develops in this text.