Abstract
“Plutarch in ‘The True Intellectual System of the Universe’”. In The True Intellectual System of the Universe Ralph Cudworth uses a great deal of sources in order to reconstruct past doctrines. In this paper, I propose that we pay attention to the way he uses Plutarch of Chaeronea’s work. The hypothesis that guides this article sustains that Cudworth uses this work as a source of ancient thought despite not totally agreeing with his interpretation of Plato. This means that Plutarch’s work has two levels of reading: on the one hand, its exposition as a source of other authors; and, on the other hand, the interpretation that Plutarch himself makes of his sources, especially, of Plato. This will allow me to draw some conclusions concerning Cudworth’s work as a historian of philosophy and his relationship with Platonic philosophy.
Highlights
Para el historiador de la filosofía el problema de las fuentes es central en toda investigación que lleve adelante
No es conveniente pensar en este autor de forma anacrónica, sino considerar que es un historiador de la filosofía
Plato was not guilty of that of later philosophers, in overlooking the third power, which is between the matter and God, and thereby falling into the grossest of all absurdities, that the nature of evils was but an accidental appendix to the world, and came into it merely by chance, nobody knows how
Summary
Natalia Strok Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET/ Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Resumen: En The True Intellectual System of the Universe Ralph Cudworth utiliza una gran cantidad de fuentes para reconstruir algunas doctrinas del pasado. La hipótesis que guía el trabajo sostiene que Cudworth hace uso de esa obra como fuente del pensamiento antiguo a pesar de no estar enteramente de acuerdo con su interpretación de Platón. The hypothesis that guides this article sustains that Cudworth uses this work as a source of ancient thought despite not totally agreeing with his interpretation of Plato. This means that Plutarch’s work has two levels of reading: on the one hand, its exposition as a source of other authors; and, on the other hand, the interpretation that Plutarch himself makes of his sources, especially, of Plato.
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