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（Alexandria）（公元4世纪）的Hypatia具有合法的主张，即是前现代世界中最受尊敬的女性哲学家。的确，在许多耳中，Hypatia这个名字被称为主要国际女权主义哲学杂志的标题，已成为女权主义和妇女和哲学性别问题的代名词。但是，令人惊讶的是，迄今为止，还没有对妇女和女性的全面检查和女性在自己的思想流派中：新柏拉图主义。该项目旨在通过对女性在新柏拉图主义中的看法和观念进行首次全面研究来纠正这种悲惨的忽视。该项目将通过调查三个主要领域进行。它将从对新柏拉图形而上学中的女性进行全面检查。不可否认的证据表明，新柏拉图形而上学在某种重要意义上是性别的：现实由男性和女性形而上学原理的相互作用组成和结果。这无疑引发了关于新柏拉图形而上学与更广泛的妇女新柏拉图构想之间的联系的紧迫问题，但是这些问题尚未得到应有的关注。这里的目标是确定女性形而上学原则的性质，范围，起源和含义，这些原则是由新柏拉图尼斯思想学院的多元化成员构想的。然后，这项形而上学研究的结果将用于对其他两个领域的新启示：妇女在新柏拉图式的道德和政治理论中的地位，以及活跃于和/或与新柏拉图学校相关的历史妇女的地位。每个领域的目的将涉及对查询的详细响应，并试图冲洗形而上学的牙典可能在其他领域中产生影响的可能方式。通过单独研究这些领域的每个领域并寻找它们之间的接触点，该项目旨在引起人们对哲学史和性别历史上令人着迷的章节的关注，并使更大的学术观众可以使其背后的理论能够获得。