Il temporalismo radicale di Attico: ripensare l'economia dell'ordinamento demiurgico

The aim of this paper is to explore Atticus' argument in favour of a temporalist theory of the generation of the world as a passage from precosmic disorder to cosmic order due to the providential and intentional intervention of god. More specifically, I shall suggest that Atticus' main concern when supporting temporalism is to provide Platonism with an effective theory of providence; that temporalism is introduced in conditional arguments, which do not show by themselves the necessity of temporalism; and that the argumentative key introduced by Atticus in order to ensure that these conditional arguments are actually decisive is a radicalisation related to the ontological status of bodies and the evil nature of the precosmic soul.