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This anthology contains twelve papers on various aspects of Platonism, ranging from Plato's Republic to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus and Hermias, to the use of Platonic philosophy by Cudworth and Schleiermacher. The papers cover topics in ethics, psychology, religion, poetics, art, epistemology, and metaphysics.
From the Contents:
Ecstasy Between Divine and Human: Re-assessing Agency in Iamblichean Divination and Theurgy (Crystal Addey) · Soul's Desire and the Origin of Time in the Philosophy of Plotinus (José Baracat) · Providence et liberté chez Jamblique de Chalcis (Jean-Michel Charrue) · Sleep and Waking in Plotinus (Bernard Collette) · The Spiritual Body. Porphyry's Theory of the ochêma in Ralph Cudworth's True Intellectual System of the Universe (Anna Corrias) · Iamblichus' Doctrine of the Soul Revisited (John Dillon) · The Distorted City in the Republic (Gary Gurtler) · Proclus on the Cognitive Value of Mythic Poetry. A Hegelian Reading (Oiva Kuisma) · Neoplatonic Allegories in Hermias (Christina-Panagiota Manolea) · The Splendor of Grace: Plotinus and the Cistercian Tradition (Martino Rossi Monti) · The Reception of Schleiermacher's View on Plato in 19th Century Poland (Tomaz Mroz) · The Nature of Art and the Art of Nature in Plotinus (Michael Wagner)
About the author
John F. Finamore is Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa. He has published extensively on the Platonic tradition, including two books on Iamblichus: Iamblichus and the Theory of the Vehicle of the Soul (Scholars Press, 1985) and (with John Dillon) Iamblichus' De Anima: Text Translation, and Commentary (Brill 2005).
John Phillips is Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has published widely in the areas of Neoplatonism and the history of Platonism. His book, Order From Disorder. Proclus' Doctrine of Evil and its Roots in Ancient Platonism, came out with Brill in 2007.
