A disturbing subject: philosophies and their times. Here we begin to weigh a new dossier proposal. We ask ourselves, where does the novelty lie? What is the value of rereads? That's where we think of creativity. Perhaps that is one of the words that inspires curiosity. It is difficult to ask ourselves about something without noticing the assumptions that rest under the terms we use, and this suggests another situation about how we think about ancient philosophies. It is common to assume that Ancient Philosophy rests below its later productions, just as the meanings run aground, agglutinating or accumulating in the terms. So much so that philosophy would seem to be composed of a constant series of repetitions of terms whose anchorage is traceable below what stands as novelty. It is difficult, for example, to think about politics without owing at least a margin of theorization to the concepts, ideas and meanings that Antiquity poured into that term. We suspect that there is no point, on the one hand, in wanting to evade the historical journey of the terms with which we make philosophical reflection today, nor in clinging to ancient appreciations as if it were a primordial truth, on the other.
Creativity is what we resort to in order to assume that readings are not exhausted, that all literature can be an input for alternative reflections. So Antiquity, in quotes, is susceptible to our view of multiple forms of revitalization, resignification or reflection (in the sense of looking back on the same) philosophical, and even more: we think that it is not the ideas or concepts, the terms or problems that remain at a specific time; but rather the way in which they have been worked. Today we see clear examples of readings, writings, works and ways of making ancient ideas or thoughts speak, but whose novelty necessarily lies in an ingenious pivot that provoked a contemporary reading and a new way of philosophical work. Today we want to invite you to rethink, make talk and write about this problem that we have selected as the theme of Dossier, which we have entitled: Inputs from Antiquity: creative readings from classical philosophies. We look forward to your input!