The Significance of Neoplatonism

Buch | Softcover

382 Seiten

2019
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-5150-3 (ISBN)

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Explores the sources, interpretations, and influences of Neoplatonism.

This is a collection of essays on the sources, interpretations, and influences of Neoplatonism.

R. Baine Harris is Eminent Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Old Dominion University. He is the editor of Authority: A Philosophical Analysis, and The Structure of Being: A Neoplatonic Approach and Neoplatonism and Indian Thought, both published by SUNY Press.

Preface
John Anton

A Brief Description of Neoplatonism
R. Baine Harris

PART ONE: THE SOURCE OF NEOPLATONISM

1. The Neoplatonism of Plato
J.N. Findlay

2. Plotinus' Adaptation of Aristotle's Psychology, Sensation, Imagination and Memory
Henry J. Blumenthal

3. Iamblichus, Thrasyllus, and the Reading order of the Platonic Dialogues
Michael Dunn

PART TWO: THE INTERPRETATION OF NEOPLATONISM

1. Plotinus' Approach to Categorical Theory
John P. Anton

2. Chorismos and Emanation in the Philosophy of Plotinus
John H. Fielder

3. NOYE as Experience
Richard T. Wallis

4. Philological Comments on the Neoplatonic Notion of Infinity
John Whittaker

5. The Neoplatonic 'One' and the Trinitarian 'APXH'
J. Patrick Atherton

6. The Apprehension of Divinity in the Self and Cosmos in Plotinus
A. Hilary Armstrong

7. Is Plotinian Mysticism Monistic
Plato Mamo

8. Plotinus and Moral Obligation
John M. Rist

9. Dynamic Structuralism in the Plotinian Theory of the Imaginary
Evanghelos Moustsopoulos

10. Image, Symbol and Analogy: Three Basic Concepts of Neoplatonic Allegorical Exegesis
John Dillon

PART THREE: THE INFLUENCE OF NEOPLATONISM

1. Marius Victorinus Afer, Porphyry and the History of Philosophy
Mary T. Clark

2. Schelling's Neoplatonic System-Notation, 'Ineinsbildung' and Temporal Unfolding
Michael G. Vater

3. The Problem of Ordered Chaos in Whitehead and Plotinus
David F. T. Rodier

4. Plotinus and Sartre, An Ontological Investigation of Being-Other-Than
John N. Deck

5. Paul Elmer More and Neoplatonism
K. W. Harrington

Contributors

Index of Proper Names

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern, Volume 1
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-4384-5150-4 / 1438451504
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-5150-3 / 9781438451503
Zustand	Neuware