Aristotle And Neoplatonism In Late Antiquity
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Aristotle And Neoplatonism In Late Antiquity
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Author : H. J. Blumenthal
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1996
Aristotle And Neoplatonism In Late Antiquity written by H. J. Blumenthal and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Philosophy categories.
"H. J. Blumenthal is such an eminent scholar in the field of Neoplatonic Studies, and the scholarship exhibited by this book is so wide-ranging and impressive, that I would venture to say that this is the most important book on Neoplatonism to be published since Dominic O'Meara's Pythagoras Revived." —Steven Strange, Emory UniversityScholars have traditionally used the Aristotelian commentators as sources for lost philosophical works and occasionally also as aids to understanding Aristotle. In H. J. Blumenthal's view, however, the commentators often assumed that there was a Platonist philosophy to which not only they but Aristotle himself subscribed. Their expository writing usually expressed their versions of Neoplatonist philosophy. Blumenthal here places the commentators in their intellectual and historical contexts, identifies their philosophical views, and demonstrates their tendency to read Aristotle as if he were a member of their philosophical circle.This book focuses on the commentators' exposition of Aristotle's treatise De anima (On the Soul), because it is relatively well documented and because the concept of soul was so important in all Neoplatonic systems. Blumenthal explains how the Neoplatonizing of Aristotle's thought, as well as the widespread use of the commentators' works, influenced the understanding of Aristotle in both the Islamic and Judaeo-Christian traditions.H. J. Blumenthal is the author or coeditor of six previous books and is currently preparing a two-volume translation, with introduction and commentary, of Simplicius' Commentary on "De anima" for publication in Cornell's series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle.
Neoplatonism In Late Antiquity
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Author : Dmitri Nikulin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-13
Neoplatonism In Late Antiquity written by Dmitri Nikulin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-13 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a philosophical study of two major thinkers who span the period of late antiquity. While Plotinus stands at the beginning of its philosophical tradition, setting the themes for debate and establishing strategies of argument and interpretation, Proclus falls closer to its end, developing a grand synthesis of late ancient thought. The book discusses many central topics of philosophy and science in Plotinus and Proclus, such as the one and the many, number and being, the individuation and constitution of the soul, imagination and cognition, the constitution of number and geometrical objects, indivisibility and continuity, intelligible and bodily matter, and evil. It shows that late ancient philosophy did not simply embrace and borrow from the major philosophical traditions of earlier antiquity--Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism--by providing marginal comments on widely-known philosophical texts. Rather, Neoplatonism offered a set of highly original and innovative insights into the nature of being and thought, which can be distinguished in much subsequent philosophical thought, up until modernity.
Soul And Intellect
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Author : H. J. Blumenthal
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1993
Soul And Intellect written by H. J. Blumenthal and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
This book presents a series of Dr. Blumenthal's studies on the history of Neoplatonism, from its founder Plotinus to the end of Classical Antiquity, relating especially to the Neoplatonists' doctrines about the soul. The work falls into two parts. The first deals with Plotinus and considers the soul both as part of the structure of the universe and in its capacity as the basis of the individual's vital and cognitive functions. The second part is concerned with the later history of Neoplatonism, including its end. Its main focus is the investigation of how Neoplatonic psychology was modified and developed by later philosophers, in particular the commentators on Aristotle, and used as the starting point for their Platonizing interpretations of his philosophy.
Philosophy In Late Antiquity
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Author : Andrew Smith
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
Philosophy In Late Antiquity written by Andrew Smith and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Philosophy in Late Antiquity provides an essential new introduction to the key ideas of the Neoplatonists, which affected approaches to Plato as late as the nineteenth century. Andrew Smith shows how they influenced Christian thought and his approach not only allows us to appreciate these philosophical ideas in their own right, but it also gives us significant insights into the mentality of the age which produced them.
The Reception Of Greek Ethics In Late Antiquity And Byzantium
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Author : Sophia Xenophontos
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-24
The Reception Of Greek Ethics In Late Antiquity And Byzantium written by Sophia Xenophontos and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-24 with History categories.
This volume provides the first authoritative study of the creative appropriation of Greek ethics by late antique and Byzantine authors.
The Libraries Of The Neoplatonists
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Author : Cristina D' Ancona
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007-04-30
The Libraries Of The Neoplatonists written by Cristina D' Ancona and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-30 with Philosophy categories.
The transmission of Greek learning to the Arabic-speaking world paved the way to the rise of Arabic philosophy. This volume offers a deep and multifarious survey of transmission of Greek philosophy through the schools of late Antiquity to the Syriac-speaking and Arabic-speaking worlds.
Late Antique Epistemology
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Author : P. Vassilopoulou
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-02-12
Late Antique Epistemology written by P. Vassilopoulou and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-12 with Philosophy categories.
Late Antique Epistemology explores the techniques used by late antique philosophers to discuss truth. Non-rational ways to discover truth, or to reform the soul, have usually been thought inferior to the philosophically approved techniques of rational argument, suitable for the less philosophically inclined, for children, savages or the uneducated. Religious rituals, oracles, erotic passion, madness may all have served to waken courage or remind us of realities obscured by everyday concerns. What is unusual in the late antique classical philosophers is that these techniques were reckoned as reliable as reasoned argument, or better still. Late twentieth century commentators have offered psychological explanations of this turn, but only recently had it been accepted that there might also have been philosophical explanations, and that the later antique philosophers were not necessarily deluded.
Platonopolis
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Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2003-05-01
Platonopolis written by Dominic J. O'Meara and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-01 with Philosophy categories.
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather than excluded political ideas, and he proposes for the first time a reconstruction of their political philosophy, their conception of the function, structure, and contents of political science, and its relation to political virtue and to the divinization of soul and state. Among the topics discussed by O'Meara are: philosopher-kings and queens; political goals and levels of reform: law, constitutions, justice, and penology; the political function of religion; and the limits of political science and action. He also explores various reactions to these political ideas in the works of Christian and Islamic writers, in particular Eusebius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and al-Farabi. Filling a major gap in our understanding, Platonopolis will be of substantial interest to scholars and students of ancient philosophy, classicists, and historians of political thought.
Neoplatonism And The Philosophy Of Nature
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Author : James Wilberding
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-04-05
Neoplatonism And The Philosophy Of Nature written by James Wilberding and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-05 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Aristotle In Late Antiquity
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Author : Lawrence P. Schrenk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Aristotle In Late Antiquity written by Lawrence P. Schrenk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Philosophy categories.
The nine essays in this volume present a series of specific insights on Aristotle's influence from Plotinus through Arabic thought. The first two essays consider the connection between Aristotle and Plotinus; the next three demonstrate Aristotle's influence on philosophers of the Late Greek era; the final four essays look at Aristotelian thought within the Byzantine and Islamic cultures.