Author | : R. Baine Harris |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438405901 |
This is a collection of essays on the sources, interpretations, and influences of Neoplatonism.
Author | : R. Baine Harris |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438405901 |
This is a collection of essays on the sources, interpretations, and influences of Neoplatonism.
Author | : R. Baine Harris |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780873958004 |
Essays on sources, interpretation, and influences of Neoplatonism.
Author | : R. Baine Harris |
Publisher | : Suny Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2019-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781438451503 |
This is a collection of essays on the sources, interpretations, and influences of Neoplatonism.
Author | : Dominic J. O'Meara |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1981-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438415117 |
In this volume, the relationships between two of the most vital currents in Western thought are examined by a group of nineteen internationally known specialists in a variety of disciplines—classics, patristics, philosophy, theology, history of ideas, and literature. The contributing scholars discuss Neoplatonic theories about God, creation, man, and salvation, in relation to the ways in which they were adopted, adapted, or rejected by major Christian thinkers of five periods: Patristic, Later Greek and Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern. Contributors include G.-H. Allard, A. Hilary Armstrong, Elizabeth Bieman, Linos Benakis, Henry Blumenthal, Mary T. Clark, Norris Clarke, John Dillon, Cornelio Fabro, John N. Findlay, Maurice de Gandillac, Edward P. Mahoney, Bernard McGinn, Dominic J. O'Meara, John J. O'Meara, Jean Pépin, Mary Carman Rose, Henri-Dominique Saffrey, Charles B. Schmitt, and Gérard Verbeke.
Author | : Aphrodite Alexandrakis |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791452790 |
Shows how the aesthetic views of Plotinus and later Neoplatonists have played a role in the history of Western art.
Author | : James Wilberding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
This volume dispels the idea that Platonism was an otherworldly enterprise which neglected the study of the natural world. Leading scholars examine how the Platonists of late antiquity sought to understand and explain natural phenomena: their essays offer a new understanding of the metaphysics of Platonism, and its place in the history of science.
Author | : Ursula Coope |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-04-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192558285 |
The Neoplatonists have a perfectionist view of freedom: an entity is free to the extent that it succeeds in making itself good. Free entities are wholly in control of themselves—they are self-determining, self-constituting, and self-knowing. Neoplatonist philosophers argue that such freedom is only possible for non-bodily things. The human soul is free insofar as it rises above bodily things and engages in intellection, but when it turns its desires to bodily things, it is drawn under the sway of fate and becomes enslaved. Ursula Coope discusses this notion of freedom and its relation to questions about responsibility. She explains the important role of notions of self-reflexivity in Neoplatonist accounts of both freedom and responsibility. In Part I, Coope sets out the puzzles Neoplatonist philosophers face about freedom and responsibility and explains how these puzzles arise from earlier discussions. Part II explores the metaphysical underpinnings of the Neoplatonist notion of freedom (concentrating especially on the views of Plotinus and Proclus). In what sense, if any, is the ultimate first principle of everything (the One) free? If everything else is under this ultimate first principle, how can anything other than the One be free? What is the connection between freedom and nonbodiliness? Finally, Coope considers in Part III questions about responsibility, arising from this perfectionist view of freedom. Why are human beings responsible for their behaviour, in a way that other animals are not? If we are enslaved when we act viciously, how can we be to blame for our vicious actions and choices?
Author | : Paulos Gregorios |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791452745 |
Explores connections between Neoplatonism and Indian philosophy.
Author | : Luc Brisson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004374981 |
Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of eleven studies which examine, in chronological order, the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers (Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus), but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles, Christian Neoplatonism, especially by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. This volume originates from a panel held at the 2014 ISNS meeting in Lisbon, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers.