The noetic λόγος: analysis of propositional logic of the Corpus Hermeticum 12.12-14a
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https://doi.org/10.31977/grirfi.v21i2.2395Keywords:
Hermetism; Corpus Hermeticum; Logic; Propositional Logic; Dialetical Logic; Stoicism; Philosophy of Language.Abstract
This article deals with an object of Philosophy, strictly the Philosophy of Language, which concerns the study of the logic and of the dialectics. So, it proposes to analyze the dialectic-logical conceptual aspects in the Corpus Hermeticum (Corp. Herm.) 12.12-14a in comparison with the logical texts of the Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta (Stoic. Vet. Fr.), in order to find supposed sources conformed with the hermetic text, and know how they were re-worked in it. For that, the references, descriptions and quotations of Sextus Empiricus (c. II - III C. E.) and of Diocles Magnes (c. I C. E.), apud Diogenes Laertius (c. III C. E.), they constitute important sources on the philosophical doctrines of Zenon, Cleanthes and Crysippus. One considers that the doctrine of the first part of the Corp. Herm. 12 is, often, Platonic. Nevertheless, there are realized signs of influences of stoicism. The conception about νοῦς [nous] in the man is from Platonic origin, but the expression προφοριϰὸς λόγος [prophorikos logos] is certainly Stoic. Then, the Corp. Herm. 12 is a product of a middle-stoicism or middle-Platonism, stoicizing Platonism or platonizing Stoicism, which cannot have appeared before the c. I B.C.E. Specifically, the article is interested in the dialectic-logical problem that involve some Stoic concepts, as λόγος, προφοριϰὸς λόγος, φωνή [phōnē], as well as the problem of the connective propositional logic in the platonizing process through the doctrine of νοῦς themed in the Corp. Herm. 12.12-14a, assuming a theological dimension and a divine character of λόγος, by being ἐνδιάϑετος λόγος, the thought that exists ἐν τῇ διαϑέσει, ἐν τῷ νῷ (in the mind).
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