| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xii, 212 pages : map ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index. |
| Summary |
Neoplatonism, a development of Plato 's metaphysical and religious teaching, whose best-known representatives were Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus, was the dominant philosophical school of the later Roman Empire and has been a major influence of European and Near Eastern thought and culture ever since. Yet the school 's philosophy is only now coming to be studied in detail by historians of philosophy, largely because of the difficulty of the Neoplatonists writings and the lack of a good summary exposition. This defect Dr. Wallis sought to remedy in this, the first full-length study of the school by a single author to appear for over half a century. Lloyd Gerson 's new Foreword sets that contribution in context; he also provides an up-dated Bibliography. |
| Contents |
Map of the eastern Mediterranean in the early centuries A.D. -- Foreword / Lloyd P. Gerson -- 1. Aims of Neoplatonism -- 2. Sources of Neoplatonism -- 3. Plotinus -- I. Life and writings -- II. three Hypostases -- III. Emanation, Logos, Sympathy -- IV. individual soul -- V. Return to the One -- VI. Plotinus and later Neoplatonism -- 4. Porphyry and Iamblichus -- I. Neoplatonism from Plotinus to the death of Julian -- II. Anti-Christian polemic and the problem of theurgy -- III. three Hypostases in Porphyry and the Parmenides commentator -- IV. Iamblichus' counter-attack; the soul and her salvation -- V. structure of late Neoplatonic metaphysics -- VI. Textual exegesis according to Porphyry and Iamblichus -- 5. Athenian School -- I. Neoplatonism at Athens and Alexandria -- II. Some basic doctrines of the Athenian School -- III. Damascius and the end of the Academy -- 6. Influence of Neoplatonism -- Bibliography / Lloyd P. Gerson. |
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Neoplatonism.
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Neoplatonism. (OCoLC)fst01035884
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Neoplatonisme.
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Neuplatonismus.
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Neuplatonismus. (DE-588)4041862-5
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| Added Author |
Gerson, Lloyd P.
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| ISBN |
0872202879 (U.S.) (pbk.) |
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9780872202870 (U.S.) (pbk.) |
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0872202887 (U.S.) |
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9780872202887 (U.S.) |
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1853994537 (U.K.) (pbk.) |
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9781853994531 (U.K.) (pbk.) |
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