Women and the Female in Neoplatonism

新柏拉图主义中的妇女和女性

• 批准号: 285767218
• 负责人: Professor Dr. James Wilberding
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl Philosophie der Antike und Gegenwart
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/285767218?language=en
• 关键词: Women; Female; Neoplatonism

Hypatia of Alexandria (4th century C.E.) has a legitimate claim to being the most highly esteemed female philosopher of the pre-modern world. Indeed, to many ears the name Hypatia, having been appropriated as the title of the leading international journal of feminist philosophy, has become nearly synonymous with the issues of feminism and women and gender in philosophy. Surprisingly, however, there has been to date no comprehensive examination of women and femaleness in Hypatias own school of thought: Neoplatonism. This project aims to rectify this woeful neglect by producing the first-ever comprehensive study of the perceptions and conceptions of the female in Neoplatonism. The project will proceed by investigating three main areas. It will begin with a full examination of the female in Neoplatonic metaphysics. There is undeniable evidence that Neoplatonic metaphysics is in some important sense gendered: reality consists of and results from the interplay of male and female metaphysical principles. This certainly raises pressing questions about the connections between Neoplatonic metaphysics and the broader Neoplatonic conception of women, but none of these issues have yet received the attention they deserve. The goal here will be to work out the nature, scope, origins and implications of female metaphysical principles as conceived by the diverse members of the Neoplatonic school of thought. The results of this metaphysical study will then be utilized to shed new light on two other areas: the status of women in Neoplatonic ethical and political theory, and the status of the historical women who were active in and/or associated with Neoplatonic schools. The objective in each area will involve working out detailed responses to both queries as well as attempting to flush out the possible ways in which metaphysical preconceptions might exerting an influence in these other domains. By studying each of these domains individually and looking for points of contact between them, this project aims to call attention to this fascinating chapter in the history of philosophy and the history of gender and to make the theory behind it accessible to a larger scholarly audience.

亚历山大的希帕蒂娅（公元世纪）她有资格成为前现代世界最受尊敬的女哲学家。事实上，在许多人看来，《希帕蒂娅》这个名字已经成为国际领先的女权主义哲学期刊的名称，几乎已经成为女权主义和哲学中的妇女与性别问题的同义词。然而，令人惊讶的是，到目前为止，在希帕蒂亚斯自己的思想流派：新柏拉图主义中，还没有对女性和女性性进行全面的研究。这个项目旨在通过对新柏拉图主义中女性的感知和概念进行有史以来第一次全面的研究来纠正这种令人遗憾的忽视。该项目将从调查三个主要领域着手。它将开始与女性在新柏拉图形而上学的全面检查。有不可否认的证据表明，新柏拉图形而上学在某种重要的意义上是性别化的：现实由男性和女性形而上学原则的相互作用组成，并由其产生。这无疑提出了新柏拉图形而上学与更广泛的新柏拉图女性观之间联系的紧迫问题，但这些问题都没有得到应有的关注。这里的目标将是工作的性质，范围，起源和女性形而上学的原则所设想的新柏拉图学派的不同成员的影响。这一形而上学研究的结果将被用来揭示新的光在其他两个领域：妇女在新柏拉图主义的道德和政治理论的地位，和历史上的妇女谁是积极的和/或与新柏拉图主义学校的地位。每一个领域的目标都包括对这两个问题做出详细的回答，并试图找出形而上学的先入之见可能在其他领域产生影响的可能方式。通过单独研究这些领域中的每一个，并寻找它们之间的联系点，该项目旨在引起人们对哲学史和性别史中这一迷人篇章的关注，并使其背后的理论为更多的学术受众所了解。