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Neoplatonism

Author : Pauliina Remes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492897
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Neoplatonism written by Pauliina Remes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Neoplatonism has long been studied by classicists, until recently most philosophers saw the ideas of Plotinus et al as a lot of religious/magical mumbo-jumbo. Recent work however has provided a new perspective on the philosophical issues in Neoplatonism and Pauliina Remes new introduction to the subject is the first to take account of this fresh research and provides a reassessment of Neoplatonism's philosophical credentials. Covering the Neoplatonic movement from its founder, Plotinus (AD 204-70) to the closure of Plato's Academy in AD 529 Remes explores the ideas of leading Neoplatonists such as Porphyry, lamblichus, Proclus, Simplicius and Damascius as well as less well-known thinkers. Situating their ideas alongside classical Platonism, Stoicism, and the neo-Pythagoreans as well as other intellectual movements of the time such as Gnosticism, Judaism and Christianity, Remes provides a valuable survey for the beginning student and non-specialist.

Neo-Platonism

Author : Richard T. Wallis
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Platonism written by Richard T. Wallis and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Neoplatonism, a development of Plato’s metaphysical and religious teaching, whose best-known representatives were Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus, was the dominant philosophical school of the later Roman Empire and has been a major influence on European and Near Eastern thought and culture ever since. Yet, though Plotinus has gained fame as a mystic and Porphyry as a formidable opponent of the early Church, the school’s philosophy has been little studied in modern times, largely because of the difficulty of the Neoplatonists’ writings and the lack of a good summary exposition. This defect Dr Wallis seeks to remedy in this, the first full-length study of the school by a single author to appear for over half a century.Dr Wallis’ aim has been to assist readers of the Neoplatonists’ works by an analysis of their leading ideas, based on the most recent scholarship and explaining clearly both what they said and why they said it. Particular attention is given to doctrinal disagreements within the school, and special sections deal with the Neoplatonists’ treatment of Platonic and Aristotelian texts, their attitude to Christianity and their later influence. It is shown how from one point of view Neoplatonism marks a synthesis of Classical Greek thought, whereas from another it applies that synthesis to problems of religious experience and man’s inner life which had been relatively little discussed by its predecessors. It is this application of reason to inner experience, the author suggests, that gives Neoplatonism a continuing importance and special relevance to our own day.”- Publisher

Neoplatonism and Christian Thought

Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438415117
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Neoplatonism and Christian Thought by : Dominic J. O'Meara

Download or read book Neoplatonism and Christian Thought written by Dominic J. O'Meara and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1981-06-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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.

Neoplatonism and Indian Philosophy

Author : Paulos Gregorios
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791452745
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Neoplatonism and Indian Philosophy written by Paulos Gregorios and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores connections between Neoplatonism and Indian philosophy.

Neoplatonism and Indian Thought

Author : R. Baine Harris
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438405871
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Neoplatonism and Indian Thought written by R. Baine Harris and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1981-06-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteen essays that form this pioneering volume of comparative philosophy represent an exchange of ideas among specialists in Neoplatonism and specialists in Indian thought. These scholars have examined concepts and assertions that appear to be common to both philosophical traditions, as well as the possible historical influence of Indian sources upon late Greek philosophy, and specifically upon the Alexandrine Platonists. While most of the essays refer to Hinduism, several of them contain general surveys.

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.

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.

Plotinus-Arg Philosophers

Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134687788
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Plotinus-Arg Philosophers written by Lloyd P. Gerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. We are fortunate in possessing a fascinating document, The Life of Plotinus, written by the philosopher Porphyry, a pupil and associate of Plotinus for the last eight years of his life. The basic facts contained in this Life can be quickly recounted. Plotinus was likely a Greek born in Egypt in AD 205. It is possible, though, that he came from a Hellenized Egyptian or Roman family. In his 28th year, Plotinus discovered in himself a thirst for philosophy. This is a collection of his works- Ennead I contains treatises on what Porphyry calls “ethical matters”; Enneads II–III contain treatises on natural philosophy or cosmology, with some rationalizations for the inclusion of III. 4, 5, 7, and 8. Ennead IV concerns the soul; V Intellect or and VI being, numbers, and the One. The thematic unity of Enneads I, IV, and V is somewhat greater than the rest.

Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought

Author : Lenn E. Goodman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438404409
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought written by Lenn E. Goodman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals primarily with the problem of the one and the many. The problems of creation, of evil, of revelation, and of ethics are all treated as special cases of the general problem of relating the finite to the infinite, the many to the one. The authors focus on the unifying theme of mediation, the means by which the Absolute relates to the here and now. The principal figures studied include Philo, Plotinus, Iamblichus, Isaac Israeli, Avicenna, Ibn Gabirol, Al-Ghazâlî, Abraham Ibn Daud, Maimonides, Averroes, Albertus Magnus, Aquinas, Gersonides, Nahmanides, Ibn Falaquera, Narboni, Albalag, Leone Ebreo (Judah Abarbanel), and Spinoza, as well as such Kabbalistic thinkers as Bahir, Cordovero, Luria, Moses de Leon, Ya'akov ben Sheshet, Isaac the Blind, Menahem Renanti, Shem Tov ben Shem Tov, Azriel of Gerona, Alemanno, Luzzato, Cordovero, and Abraham Herrera. The authors include David Winston, John Dillon, Carl Mathis, Bernard McGinn, Arthur Hyman, Alfred Ivry, Lenn E. Goodman, Menachem Kellner, David Burrell, Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, David Bleich, Seymour Feldman, Steven Katz, Moshe Idel, David Novak, Hubert Dethier, Richard Popkin, and Robert McLaren. Taken together, these essays offer an impressive historical survey of the ideas, achievements, and philosophic struggles of a group of men who worked to form a unique and durable tradition that bridged the gap between rival confessions and sects—mystics, rationalists, and empiricists; Jews, Christians, and Muslims. This is a philosophic source whose vitality is not yet exhausted.

The Neoplatonists

Author : John Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134691181
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The Neoplatonists written by John Gregory and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively revised and updated second edition of The Neoplatonists provides a valuable introduction to the thought of the four central Neoplatonist philosophers, Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus and Iamblichus.

Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato

Author : Ilsetraut Hadot
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004281592
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato written by Ilsetraut Hadot and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato by I. Hadot deals with the Neoplatonist tendency to harmonize the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. It shows that this harmonizing tendency, born in Middle Platonism, prevailed in Neoplatonism from Porphyry and Iamblichus, where it persisted until the end of this philosophy. Hadot aims to illustrate that it is not the different schools themselves, for instance those of Athens and Alexandria, that differ from one another by the intensity of the will to harmonization, but groups of philosophers within these schools.

Reading Plotinus

Author : Kevin Corrigan
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532343
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Reading Plotinus written by Kevin Corrigan and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plotinus was one of the most influential philosophers of the early Christian world, whose life was dedicated to the care of others and whose extensive treatises were recorded and preserved by his pupil and colleague Porphyry. This book provides a guide to reading and understanding Plotinus and covers many of the topics that he contemplated.

The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism

Author : John J. Cleary
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789061868477
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism written by John J. Cleary and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism

Author : Jonathan Greig
Publisher : Philosophia Antiqua
ISBN 13 : 9789004439054
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism by : Jonathan Greig

Download or read book The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism written by Jonathan Greig and published by Philosophia Antiqua. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The First Principle', Jonathan Greig examines the philosophical theology of the two Neoplatonists, Proclus and Damascius (5th-6th centuries A.D.), on the One as the first cause. Both philosophers address a tension in the Neoplatonic tradition: namely that the One was seen as absolutely transcendent, yet it was also seen as intimately related to other things as the source of their unity and being. Proclus' solution is to posit intermediate causes after the One, while Damascius posits a distinct principle, the 'Ineffable', above the One. This book provides a new, thorough study of the theories of causation that lead each to their respective position and reveals crucial insights involved in a rigorous negative theology employed in metaphysics.

Reading Neoplatonism

Author : Sara Rappe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521651585
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Reading Neoplatonism written by Sara Rappe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoplatonism is a term used to designate the form of Platonic philosophy that developed in the Roman Empire from the third to the fifth century A.D. and that based itself on the corpus of Plato's dialogues. Sara Rappe's challenging and innovative study is the first book to analyze Neoplatonic texts themselves using contemporary philosophy of language. It covers the whole tradition of Neoplatonic writing from Plotinus through Proclus to Damascius. In providing the broadest available survey of Neoplatonic writing the book will appeal to classical philosophers, classicists, as well as students of religious studies.

Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought

Author : R. Baine Harris
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791452752
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought written by R. Baine Harris and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars relate Neoplatonism to contemporary science and philosophy.