- The archaeology of the Querelle des universaux in sixteen points
- How can we introduce intelligibility into the history of ideas without reviving the various mythologies we find at work in the reading of a Cousin or a Gerando? What are we going to make history of, if we don't make the history of conceptualism or nominalism as understood in the Cousinian historiographical horizon?
- Back to the confrontation between Porphyry's original questionnaire and Proclus' questionnaire on evil
- Conceptual exchanges and new paths
- The study of the distinction betweenepinoia and psile epinoia opens up the history of imaginary objects, the problems of empty reference, the relationship between universal, nothingness and fiction, and thus the role of Stoicism in the "gesture of the universal"
- Porphyry's questionnaire, built around an initial question - are universals real beings or empty concepts? - organizes, on the basis of a chiasmus between beings and concepts, the confrontation of Aristotelian-Platonic concordism with Porphyry
- Examining Stoic theses on the universal
- The testimony of Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John
- The exegesis of Jn 1:3 (All things were through him(Πάντα δι' αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο), and without him nothing was(καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἓν)
- Two theses on evil: "evil has no hypostasis", "evil is a non-thing"
- The Stoic distinction between nothing and not-something
- Ontology and tinology
- Two possible positions
- universals have the same status as fictions
- Universals don't even have the status of fictions
- Back to tragelaphos, and the distinction between psilê epinoia and epinoia, goat-goat and abstract universal.
11:30 - 13:00
