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PLOTINUS Ennead IV.3-4.29

Problems Concerning the Soul

By: John Blumenthal H.J. Dillon

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PLOTINUS Ennead IV.3-4.29

Problems Concerning the Soul

By: John Blumenthal H.J. Dillon

For Plotinus, the nature and status of the human soul is one of the central problems of philosophy. Ennead IV.3-4.29 constitutes his most penetrating enquiry into this topic, addressing the issues of the relation of the individual soul to the World Soul, the descent of the soul into body, its relations with that body, problems of personal identity and the nature of memory, sense perception, and the true seat of the emotions -many of which still have a resonance today. The treatise is an excellent example of Plotinus' distinctive method of enquiry: not dogmatic (though he is no sceptic), but worrying away at questions until he has uncovered their complexities to the best of his ability. Such a work requires detailed commentary, such as is provided here, to tease out fully the fascinating convolutions of his thought.

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1930972709

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PLOTINUS Ennead VI.8

On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One

By: Kevin Turner Corrigan, John

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PLOTINUS Ennead VI.8

On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One

By: Kevin Turner Corrigan, John

Ennead VI.8 gives us access to the living mind of a long dead sage as he tries to answer some of the most fundamental questions we in the modern world continue to ask: are we really free when most of the time we are overwhelmed by compulsions, addictions, and necessities, and how can we know that we are free? Can we trace this freedom through our own agency to the gods, to the Soul, Intellect, and the Good? How do we know that the world is meaningful and not simply the result of chance or randomness? Plotinus' On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One is a groundbreaking work that provides a new understanding of the importance and nature of free human agency. It articulates a creative idea of agency and radical freedom by showing how such terms as desire, will, self-dependence, and freedom in the human ethical sphere can be genuinely applied to Intellect and the One while preserving the radical inability of all metaphysical language to express anything about God or gods.

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1930972407

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Iamblichus' De Anima

Text, Translation, and Commentary

By: John Finamore,John Dillon

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Iamblichus' De Anima

Text, Translation, and Commentary

By: John Finamore,John Dillon

Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism. His theory of the soul is at the heart of his philosophical system. For Iamblichus, the human soul is so far inferior to the divine that its salvation depends not on philosophy alone (as it did for Plotinus) but on the aid of the gods and other divinities. This edition of the fragments of Iamblichus' major work on the soul, De Anima, is accompanied by the first English translation of the work and a commentary which explains the philosophical background and Iamblichus' doctrine of the soul. Included too are excerpts from the Pseudo-Simplicius and Priscianus (also translated with commentary) that shed further light on Iamblichus' treatise.

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BRILL

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9047401425

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9789047401421

Dexippus: On Aristotle Categories

By: John Dillon

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Dexippus: On Aristotle Categories

By: John Dillon

Dexippus, a pupil or follower of lamblichus, preserves a crucial moment in the Neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle. Aristotle's Categories has been attacked by Plotinus, but Porphyry's defence proved decisive, so that the Categories was acceptable as compatible with Platonism and an essential introduction to the Neoplatonist curriculum. Porphyry's main commentary on the Categories, however, containing the vital defence, is lost, as is that of his pupil lamblichus. The ideas of these two principal Neoplatonists can be reconstructed, in part, from Dexippus.

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178093372X

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Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition

Despoiling the Hellenes

By: Ms Sarah Klitenic Wear,Professor John Dillon

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Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition

Despoiling the Hellenes

By: Ms Sarah Klitenic Wear,Professor John Dillon

Dionysius the Areopagite' is arguably one of the most mysterious and intriguing figures to emerge from the late antique world. Writing probably around 500 CE, and possibly connected with the circle of Severus of Antioch, Dionysius manipulates a Platonic metaphysics to describe a hierarchical universe: as with the Hellenic Platonists, he arranges the celestial and material cosmos into a series of triadic strata. These strata emanate from one unified being and contain beings that range from superior to inferior, depending on their proximity to God. Not only do all things in the hierarchy participate in God, but also all things are inter-connected, so that the lower hierarchies fully participate in the higher ones. This metaphysics lends itself to a sacramental system similar to that of the Hellenic ritual, theurgy. Theurgy allows humans to reach the divine by examining the divine as it exists in creation. Although Dionysius' metaphysics and religion are similar to that of Iamblichus and Proclus in many ways, Pseudo-Dionysius differs fundamentally in his use of an ecclesiastical cosmos, rather than that of the Platonic Timaean cosmos of the Hellenes. This book discusses the Christian Platonist's adaptation of Hellenic metaphysics, language, and religious ritual. While Dionysius clearly works within the Hellenic tradition, he innovates to integrate Hellenic and Christian thought.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409477533

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9781409477532

Mystical Monotheism

A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology

By: John Peter Kenney

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Mystical Monotheism

A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology

By: John Peter Kenney

In this engaging and provocative study, John Peter Kenney examines the emergence of monotheism within Greco-Roman philosophical theology by tracing the changing character of ancient realism from Plato through Plotinus. Besides acknowledging the philosophical and theological significance of such ancient thinkers as Plutarch, Numenius, Alcinous, and Atticus, he demonstrates the central importance of Plotinus in clarifying the relation of the intelligible world to divinity. Kenney focuses especially on Plotinus's novel concept of deity, arguing that it constitutes a type of mystical monotheism based upon an ultimate and inclusive divine One beyond description or discursive knowledge. Presenting difficult material with grace and clarity, Kenney takes a wide-ranging view of the development of ancient Platonic theology from a philosophical perspective and synthesizes familiar elements in a new way. His is a revisionist thesis with significant implications for the study of Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian thought in this period and for the history of Western religious thought in general.

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1610970098

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The Platonic Heritage

Further Studies in the History of Platonism and Early Christianity

By: John Dillon

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The Platonic Heritage

Further Studies in the History of Platonism and Early Christianity

By: John Dillon

This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition. Once again, the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the Old Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism, to the Neoplatonists and beyond. Particular concerns evidenced in the papers are the continuities in the Platonic tradition, and the setting of philosophers in their social and cultural contexts, while at the same time teasing out the philosophical implications of particular texts. Such topics are addressed as atomism in the Old Academy, Philo's concept of immateriality, Plutarch's and Julian's views on theology, and peculiar features of Iamblichus' exegeses of Plato and Aristotle, but also the broader questions of the social position of the philosopher in second century A.D. society, and the nature of ancient biography.

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1351219200

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PLOTINUS Ennead IV.3-4.29

Problems Concerning the Soul

By: John Blumenthal H.J. Dillon

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Problems Concerning the Soul

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PLOTINUS Ennead IV.3-4.29

PLOTINUS Ennead IV.3-4.29

PLOTINUS Ennead VI.8

PLOTINUS Ennead VI.8

Iamblichus' De Anima

Iamblichus' De Anima

Dexippus: On Aristotle Categories

Dexippus: On Aristotle Categories

Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition

Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition

Mystical Monotheism

Mystical Monotheism

The Platonic Heritage

The Platonic Heritage

PLOTINUS Ennead IV.3-4.29

PLOTINUS Ennead IV.3-4.29

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