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The Neoplatonic Socrates

Author : Danielle A. Layne
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246292
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Neoplatonic Socrates written by Danielle A. Layne and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that would surprise many of his contemporaries, who excoriated the philosopher for corrupting youth. The problem of who Socrates "really" was—the true history of his activities and beliefs—has long been thought insoluble, and most recent Socratic studies have instead focused on reconstructing his legacy and tracing his ideas through other philosophical traditions. But this scholarship has neglected to examine closely a period of philosophy that has much to reveal about what Socrates stood for and how he taught: the Neoplatonic tradition of the first six centuries C.E., which at times decried or denied his importance yet relied on his methods. In The Neoplatonic Socrates, leading scholars in classics and philosophy address this gap by examining Neoplatonic attitudes toward the Socratic method, Socratic love, Socrates's divine mission and moral example, and the much-debated issue of moral rectitude. Collectively, they demonstrate the importance of Socrates for the majority of Neoplatonists, a point that has often been questioned owing to the comparative neglect of surviving commentaries on the Alcibiades, Gorgias, Phaedo, and Phaedrus, in favor of dialogues dealing explicitly with metaphysical issues. Supplemented with a contextualizing introduction and a substantial appendix detailing where evidence for Socrates can be found in the extant literature, The Neoplatonic Socrates makes a clear case for the significant place Socrates held in the education and philosophy of late antiquity. Contributors: Crystal Addey, James M. Ambury, John F. Finamore, Michael Griffin, Marilynn Lawrence, Danielle A. Layne, Christina-Panagiota Manolea, François Renaud, Geert Roskam, Harold Tarrant.

The Neoplatonic Socrates

Author : Harold Tarrant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book The Neoplatonic Socrates written by Harold Tarrant and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Neoplatonic Philosophy

Author : John M. Dillon
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872207073
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Neoplatonic Philosophy written by John M. Dillon and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive collection of Neoplatonic writings available in English, this volume provides translations of the central texts of four major figures of the Neoplatonic tradition: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus. The general Introduction gives an overview of the period and takes a brief but revealing look at the history of ancient philosophy from the viewpoint of the Neoplatonists. Historical background--essential for understanding these powerful, difficult, and sometimes obscure thinkers--is provided in extensive footnotes, which also include cross-references to other works relevant to particular passages.

Perspectives sur le néoplatonisme

Author : Collectif
Publisher : Presses de l'Université Laval
ISBN 13 : 2763707025
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives sur le néoplatonisme written by Collectif and published by Presses de l'Université Laval. This book was released on 2011-10-06T00:00:00-04:00 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les études des dernières décennies ont permis décennies ont permis de mieux mesurer la richesse et le foisonnement insoupçonnés de la tradition néoplatonicienne. Lieu de passage obligé et de remodelage aussi de toute la philosophique grecque classique (du platonisme, de l'aristotélisme et du stoïcisme notamment), le néoplatonisme, à travers les cultures arabes, le monde chrétien, la Renaissance et l'idéalisme allemand entre autres, a marqué d'une manière décisive toute notre culture. Comment, par exemple, imaginer le rôle de la transcendace dans la réflexion philosophique, le problème de la connaissance de soi ou du schéma triadique de la pensée, sans le recours à des auteurs tels que Plotin ou Proclus? Comment comprendre la complexité des liens unissant et séparant à la fois la philosopohie et la théologie, sans les développements capitaux qu'ont pu y apporter des auteurs tels que Porphyre, Jamblique ou Damascius? Que seraient aussi la mystique ou la théologie négative sans leurs apports décisifs? Les études rassemblées ici, témoins d'une rencontre annuelle de l'International Sociéty of Neoplatonic Studies tenue à Québec en 2006, permettront au lecteur de mieux mesurer l'importance de vaste domaine de recherche, aujourd'hui en plein chantier.

Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature

Author : James Wilberding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature written by James Wilberding and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Pleasure and the Good Life

Author : Gerd Van Riel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004117976
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Pleasure and the Good Life written by Gerd Van Riel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concentrates on a hedonistic argument that enters the philosophical debate, when philosophers argue that what they present as the good life is the truly pleasurable life. The book investigates more precisely how this point was made by Plato and his successors.

Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy

Author : Dimitrios A. Vasilakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350163864
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy written by Dimitrios A. Vasilakis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing the ontological importance of eros within the philosophical systems inspired by Plato, Dimitrios A. Vasilakis examines the notion of eros in key texts of the Neoplatonic philosophers, Plotinus, Proclus, and the Church Father, Dionysius the Areopagite. Outlining the divergences and convergences between the three brings forward the core idea of love as deficiency in Plotinus and charts how this is transformed into plenitude in Proclus and Dionysius. Does Proclus diverge from Plotinus in his hierarchical scheme of eros? Is the Dionysian hierarchy to be identified with Proclus' classification of love? By analysing The Enneads, III.5, the Commentary on the First Alcibiades and the Divine Names side by side, Vasilakis uses a wealth of modern scholarship, including contemporary Greek literature to explore these questions, tracing a clear historical line between the three seminal late antique thinkers.

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Author : Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004215050
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism by : Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz

Download or read book Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism written by Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the ancient commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo by Olympiodorus and Damascius and aims to present the relevance of their challenging and valuable readings of the dialogue to Neoplatonic ethics.

Theophany

Author : Eric D. Perl
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148002X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Theophany written by Eric D. Perl and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situates Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite as a Neoplatonic philosopher in the tradition of Plotinus and Proclus.

The Significance of Neoplatonism

Author : R. Baine Harris
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438405901
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Significance of Neoplatonism written by R. Baine Harris and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays on the sources, interpretations, and influences of Neoplatonism.

Aristotle and Other Platonists

Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501716964
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle and Other Platonists written by Lloyd P. Gerson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposition to Plato's. But it was not always thus."—from the Introduction In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the "harmony" of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity. He aims to show that the twentieth-century view that Aristotle started out as a Platonist and ended up as an anti-Platonist is seriously flawed. Gerson examines the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle based on their principle of harmony. In considering ancient studies of Aristotle's Categories, Physics, De Anima, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics, the author shows how the principle of harmony allows us to understand numerous texts that otherwise appear intractable. Gerson also explains how these "esoteric" treatises can be seen not to conflict with the early "exoteric" and admittedly Platonic dialogues of Aristotle. Aristotle and Other Platonists concludes with an assessment of some of the philosophical results of acknowledging harmony.

Socrates: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826433251
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Socrates: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Sara Ahbel-Rappe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Socrates, ideal for undergraduate students taking courses in Ancient and Greek Philosophy.

The Structure of Being

Author : International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873955331
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Being written by International Society for Neoplatonic Studies and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoplatonism has sometimes been seen as a species of mysticism. This volume shows that Neoplatonism has, on the contrary, a characteristic and definable structure. It presents the logic of Neoplatonism and carefully distinguishes it from the logic of other forms of philosophy.

Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004414312
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus is a collection of twelve essays that consider aspects of Hermias’ philosophy, including his notions of the soul, logic, and method of exegesis.

The Third Way

Author : Francisco J. Gonzalez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847681143
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Third Way written by Francisco J. Gonzalez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Plato's dialogues has traditionally oscillated between two paradigms: one that portrays the dialogues as treatises expounding doctrines and one that sees them as purely skeptical, rhetorical, or literary. This collection of new essays by twelve noted Plato scholars illustrates the fruitfulness of breaking away from those paradigms, which have divided Platonic scholarship and led it to a number of dead ends. While the essays are diverse in their approaches, each seeks to find a 'third way' to understand Plato, reading him as neither a dogmatist nor a skeptic but as a philosopher capable of reconciling the content and form of his writings.

Soul and Intellect

Author : H. J. Blumenthal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soul and Intellect written by H. J. Blumenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a series of Dr. Blumenthal's studies on the history of Neoplatonism, from its founder Plotinus to the end of Classical Antiquity, relating especially to the Neoplatonists' doctrines about the soul. The work falls into two parts. The first deals with Plotinus and considers the soul both as part of the structure of the universe and in its capacity as the basis of the individual's vital and cognitive functions. The second part is concerned with the later history of Neoplatonism, including its end. Its main focus is the investigation of how Neoplatonic psychology was modified and developed by later philosophers, in particular the commentators on Aristotle, and used as the starting point for their Platonizing interpretations of his philosophy.

Pleasure and the Good Life

Author : Paul van Riel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004321101
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Pleasure and the Good Life written by Paul van Riel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the general theory of pleasure of Plato and his successors. The first part describes the two paradigms between which all theories of pleasure oscillate: Plato's definition of pleasure as the repletion of a lack, and Aristotle's view that pleasure is the perfect performance of an activity. After an excursus on Epicureans and Stoics, the book concentrates on Neoplatonism, opposing the 'standard Neoplatonic view' of Plotinus and Proclus to the original viewpoint of Damascius' commentary on Plato's Philebus. The volume sheds light on the discussion between hedonists and anti-hedonists, by concentrating on the 'crucial point' at which any philosophical analysis of the good life (hedonistic or other) ought to argue that the life of the philosopher is the most desirable, and thus truly pleasurable, life.