The Significance of Neoplatonism

Edited by R. Baine Harris

Subjects: Neoplatonism
Series: Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern, Volume 1
Hardcover : 9780873958004, 382 pages, June 1976
Paperback : 9781438451503, 382 pages, October 2019

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Table of contents

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

Explores the sources, interpretations, and influences of Neoplatonism.

Description

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

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