Research Catalog

Title

History of Platonism : Plato redivivus / Robert Berchman & John Finamore (editors).

Publication

New Orleans : University Press of the South, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Berchman, Robert M.
• Finamore, John F., 1951-

Description

ix, 353 pages; 21 cm

Alternative Title

Plato redivivus

Subject

• Plato > Influence
• Plato > Criticism and interpretation
• Plotinus
• Platon > Influence
• Platon
• Plotin
• Plato
• Plato v427-v347
• Plato
• Platonists
• Platoniciens
• Platonism
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Platonismus
• Nyplatonism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-353).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Republic VI 509a9-c10 and its interpretation in antiquity : dialogical or dogmatic reading / Luc Brisson -- Immortality vs. tripartition : the soul in Plato / Gwendolyn Gruber -- The tripartite soul in Plato's Republic and Phaedrus / John F. Finamore -- Erôs as institution : a consideration of why Plato wrote the Symposium / Matthew E. Kenney -- Metaphors : thinking and being in Aristotle and Plotinus / Robert Berchman -- Plotinus' philosophical opposition to gnosticism and the implicit axiom of continuous hierarchy / Zeke Mazur -- Plotinus : self and consciousness / Gary M. Gurtler -- Alone to the alone : the ascent to the one in Plotinus / Deepa Majumdar -- The sphere and the altar of sacrifice / Gregory Shaw -- The Egyptian Book of the dead and neoplatonic philosophy / Algis Uzdavinys -- Theories of nature in ancient platonism / John Phillips -- A physics for the psyche? : Proclus' Instituta physica and the "life" of the soul / Emilie Kutash -- Damaskios' new conception of metaphysics / Carolle Tresson & Alain Metry -- "The Torah speaks in the language of humans" : on some uses of Plato's theory of myth in medieval Jewish philosophy / Aaron Hughes -- The manifest image : revealing the hidden in Halevi, Saadya and Ibn Gabirol / Sarah Pessin -- Prophecy, imagination and the poet's fine frenzy : reflections of a Cambridge platonist / Douglas Hedley -- Listening to the voice of fire : theurgical fitness and esoteric sensitivity / Leonard George -- Evolution, Jung, and theurgy : their role in modern neoplatonism / Bruce MacLennan -- The problem of the self and its centre : postmodernism and neoplatonism / Kevin Corrigan.

ISBN

• 1931948313
• 9781931948319

LCCN

2005926730

OCLC

• 61687938
• SCSB-12249128

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library