Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9789004215054
ISBN-13 : 9004215050
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Synopsis Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism by : Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz

The belief in the immortality of the soul has been described as one of the “twin pillars of Platonism” and is famously defended by Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo. The ancient commentaries on the dialogue by Olympiodorus and Damascius offer a unique perspective on the reception of this belief in the Platonic tradition. Through a detailed discussion of topics such as suicide, the life of the philosopher and arguments for immortality, this study demonstrates the commentators’ serious engagement with problems in Plato’s text as well as the dialogue's importance to Neoplatonic ethics. The book will be of interest to students of Plato and the Platonic tradition, and to those working on ancient ethics and psychology.

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9789004207172
ISBN-13 : 9004207171
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

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

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.

Aristotle and Other Platonists

Aristotle and Other Platonists
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 9781501716966
ISBN-13 : 1501716964
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Aristotle and Other Platonists by : Lloyd P. Gerson

"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.

Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion

Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 0674031199
ISBN-13 : 9780674031197
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion by : Marsilio Ficino

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino's extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.

The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul

The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9789004176232
ISBN-13 : 9004176233
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Synopsis The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul by : Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth

Plato's doctrine of the soul, its immaterial nature, its parts or faculties, and its fate after death (and before birth) came to have an enormous influence on the great religious traditions that sprang up in late antiquity, beginning with Judaism (in the person of Philo of Alexandria), and continuing with Christianity, from St. Paul on through the Alexandrian and Cappadocian Fathers to Byzantium, and finally with Islamic thinkers from Al-kindi on. This volume, while not aspiring to completeness, attempts to provide insights into how members of each of these traditions adapted Platonist doctrines to their own particular needs, with varying degrees of creativity.

Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy

Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781107086593
ISBN-13 : 1107086590
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy by : Alex Long

Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.

Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I

Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9781009100212
ISBN-13 : 1009100211
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Synopsis Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I by : James M. Ambury

The first book-length study exclusively devoted to the commentaries of Proclus and Olympiodorus on the Platonic Alcibiades I.

Jung’s Studies in Astrology

Jung’s Studies in Astrology
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781351972864
ISBN-13 : 1351972863
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Jung’s Studies in Astrology by : Liz Greene

Winner of the IAJS award for best authored book of 2018! C. G. Jung had a profound interest in and involvement with astrology, which he made clear in virtually every volume of the Collected Works, as well as in many of his letters. This ancient symbolic system was of primary importance in his understanding of the nature of time, the archetypes, synchronicity, and human fate. Jung’s Studies in Astrology is an historical survey of his astrological work from the time he began to study the subject. It is based not only on his published writings, but also on the correspondence and documents found in his private archives, many of which have never previously seen the light of day. Liz Greene addresses with thoroughness and detailed scholarship the nature of Jung’s involvement with astrology: the ancient, medieval, and modern sources he drew on, the individuals from whom he learned, his ideas about how and why it worked, its religious and philosophical implications, and its applications in the treatment of his patients as well as in his own self-understanding. Greene clearly demonstrates that any serious effort to understand the development of Jung’s psychological theories, as well as the nature of his world-view, needs to involve a thorough exploration of his astrological work. This thorough investigation of a central theme in Jung’s work will appeal to analytical psychologists and Jungian psychotherapists, students and academics of Jungian and post-Jungian theory, the history of psychology, archetypal thought, mythology and folklore, the history of New Age movements, esotericism, and psychological astrology.

Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo

Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9789004289543
ISBN-13 : 9004289542
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo by :

Plato’s Phaedo has never failed to attract the attention of philosophers and scholars. Yet the history of its reception in Antiquity has been little studied. The present volume therefore proposes to examine not only the Platonic exegetical tradition surrounding this dialogue, which culminates in the commentaries of Damascius and Olympiodorus, but also its place in the reflections of the rival Peripatetic, Stoic, and Sceptical schools. This volume thus aims to shed light on the surviving commentaries and their sources, as well as on less familiar aspects of the history of the Phaedo’s ancient reception. By doing so, it may help to clarify what ancient interpreters of Plato can and cannot offer their contemporary counterparts.

Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World

Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 753
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ISBN-10 : 9789004254763
ISBN-13 : 9004254765
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World by : Kevin Corrigan

This Festschrift honors the life and work of John D. Turner (Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln) on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Professor Turner’s work has been of profound importance for the study of the interaction between Greek philosophy and Gnosticism in late antiquity. This volume contains essays by international scholars on a broad range of topics that deal with Sethian, Valentinian and other early Christian thought, as well as with Platonism and Neoplatonism, and offer a variety of perspectives spanning intellectual history, Greek and Coptic philology, and the study of religions.