Poikilia

Grand-Clément, Adeline

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“…De liberis educandis 7C: ‘Variety is delightful’ (ἡ δὲ ποικιλία τϵρπνόν). Compare Grand-Clément (2015) 415.…”

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‘The friend-making table’: variety and the definition of friendship in Plutarch’sTable Talk

Kirkland

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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Plutarch’s Table Talk asserts the ‘friend-making’ (φιλοποιός) character of the symposium seemingly unproblematically (612D, 621C). Yet it is not entirely clear how readers are to understand the dynamics of social variety in the work, or how its presentation of friendship relates to Plutarch’s formal pronouncements elsewhere on the subject. This article explores connections between Table Talk and aspects of On Having Many Friends and How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend. It also considers some ideas around poikilia in Plutarch in connection to discussions of complexity and simplicity in Table Talk, as a window onto the work’s presentation of amicable variety. I argue that social variety is often the implicit target in discussions of party pragmatics and gastronomic variety. Unlike the moral essays, Table Talk ultimately endorses a broad conceptualization of friendship’s and variety’s value, inviting readers to rethink Plutarchan ideas for the sympotic context.

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“…De liberis educandis 7C: ‘Variety is delightful’ (ἡ δὲ ποικιλία τϵρπνόν). Compare Grand-Clément (2015) 415.…”

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‘The friend-making table’: variety and the definition of friendship in Plutarch’sTable Talk

Kirkland

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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“…5 5 Another related, but obscure notion, is that of poikilia, which was associated with many properties of artworks originally applied to textures and fabric (see Grand‐Clement, 2015). …”

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“…Another related, but obscure notion, is that of poikilia, which was associated with many properties of artworks originally applied to textures and fabric (seeGrand-Clement, 2015).6 The Presocratics also looked to art to inspire their theories of perception. Democritus wrote a (lost) treatise on painting, and Empedocles' theory of color was heavily influenced by color mixing(Ierodiakonou, 2005).…”

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“…Different material properties such as smoothness, fragility, and hardness feature in his analysis of brightness(Rudolph, 2020).4 Though according to Reid we can learn to see anything we might also perceive by touch, including hardness. See Copenhaver (2010).5 Another related, but obscure notion, is that of poikilia, which was associated with many properties of artworks originally applied to textures and fabric (seeGrand-Clement, 2015).…”

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Material perception for philosophers

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Common everyday materials such as textiles, foodstuffs, soil or skin can have complex, mutable and varied appearances. Under typical viewing conditions, most observers can visually recognize materials effortlessly, and determine many of their properties without touching them. Visual material perception raises many fascinating questions for vision researchers, neuroscientists and philosophers, yet has received little attention compared to the perception of color or shape. Here we discuss some of the challenges that material perception raises and argue that further philosophical thought should be directed to how we see materials.

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On the Impossibility and Dispensability of Defining ‘‘Biodiversity’’

Toepfer

2019

History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences

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The impressive success of the concept 'biodiversity' in the last decades, in particular in the arena of politics, is in a large part due to its power to amalgamate facts and values: the fact that living beings show variety on every level of their existence, and the assumed values that are associated with this variety. These values are far from obvious or objective, they are rather normatively prescribed. They are already at work in the process of selecting the level of analysis, e.g. the level of genes, species, or ecosystems. The concept thus ties together many different discourses from the fields of biology and bioethics, aesthetics and economy, law and global justice. One important consequence of the concept's integrative power is the impossibility of its general definition. Just as 'life', 'time' or 'world' the word is an "absolute metaphor" or "non-concept" in the sense of Hans Blumenberg: it cannot have a fixed meaning just because it mediates between various contexts and disciplines. Any attempt to define 'biodiversity' in general terms is thus futile and does not capture the role it fulfills in contemporary discourse. Rather than trying to define the concept, reconstructing the interaction of its various contexts is a more promising approach. These include, besides the obvious reference to biology and nature conservation, ancient narratives about divine creation, paradise and Noah's ark as

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Poikilia

Cited by 23 publications

References 18 publications

‘The friend-making table’: variety and the definition of friendship in Plutarch’sTable Talk

‘The friend-making table’: variety and the definition of friendship in Plutarch’sTable Talk

Material perception for philosophers

On the Impossibility and Dispensability of Defining ‘‘Biodiversity’’

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