Neoplatonic Demons and Angels

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Neoplatonic Demons and Angels

Luc Brisson, Seamus O’Neill and Andrei Timotin, Leiden: Brill, 2018

Description

Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of eleven studies which examine, in chronological order, the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers (Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus), but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles, Christian Neoplatonism, especially by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. This volume originates from a panel held at the 2014 ISNS meeting in Lisbon, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Daimon and the Choice of Life in Plotinus’ Thought By: Thomas Vidart

The Angels in Ancient Gnosis: Some Cases By: Madeleine Scopello

Demons and Angels in the Chaldaean Oracles By: Helmut Seng

What is a Daimon for Porphyry? By: Luc Brisson

Porphyry of Tyre on the Daimon, Birth and the Stars By: Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum

Daimones in Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs By: Nilufer Akcay

Evil Demons in the De Mysteriis Assessing the Iamblichean Critique of Porphyry’s Demonology By: Seamus O’Neill

Proclus’ Critique of Plotinus’ Demonology By: Andrei Timotin

The Angels in Proclus: Messengers of the Gods By: Luc Brisson

Ontology, Henadology, Angelology. The Neoplatonic Roots of Angelic Hierarchy By: Ghislain Casas

Dionysius the Areopagite on Angels. Self-Constitution versus Constituting Gifts By: Marilena Vlad

Index

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/38745?contents=toc-44457

Platonic Pathways

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Platonic Pathways

John F Finamore and Danielle A. Layne, Leiden: Brill, 2018

Description

This anthology of 16 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2016 annual conference.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

The Significance of Initiation Rituals in Plato’s Meno – Michael Romero

Plato’s Timaean Psychology – John Finamore

The Creative Thinker: A New Reading of Numenius fr. 16.10-12 – Joshua Langseth

First Philosophy, Abstract Objects, and Divine Aseity: Aristotle and Plotinus – Robert M. Berchman

Plotinus on philia and its Empedoclean origin – Giannis Stamatellos

In What Sense Does the One Exist? Existence and Hypostasis in Plotinus – Michael Wiitala and Paul DiRado

A Double-Edged Sword: Porphyry on the Perils and Profits of Demonological Inquiry – Seamus O’Neill

Alienation and Divinization: Iamblichus’ Theurgic Vision – Gregory Shaw

Iamblichus’ method for creating Theurgic Sacrifice – Sam Webster

The Understanding of Time and Eternity in the polemic between Eunomius, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa – Tomasz Stępień

Tension in the soul: A Stoic/Platonic concept in Plutarch, Proclus, and Simplicius – Marilynn Lawrence

Peritrope in Damascius as the Apparatus of Speculative Ontology – Tyler Tritten

Mysticism, Apocalypticism, and Platonism – Ilaria Ramelli

Philosophy and Commentary: Evaluating Simplicius on the Presocratics – Bethany Parsons

From Embryo to Saint: a Thomist Account of Being Human – Melissa Rovig Vanden Bout

From the Neoplatonizing Christian Gnosticism of Philip K. Dick to the Neoplatonizing Hermetic Gnosticism of Ralph Waldo Emerson – Jay Bregman

Link

https://brill.com/view/journals/jpt/14/1/article-p87_13.xml?language=en

Langage des dieux, langage des démons, langage des hommes dans l’Antiquité

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Langage des dieux, langage des démons,

langage des hommes dans l’Antiquité

L. G. Soares Santoprete, P. Hoffmann (eds.), Turnhout: Brepolis, 2017

Description

Le présent ouvrage est issu de recherches menées dans le cadre de l’ancien projet ‘CENOB’ (Corpus des énoncés de noms barbares) soutenu par l’Agence Nationale de la Recherche. Par ‘noms barbares’, on désigne dans les religions anciennes des noms ou enoncés proférés, principalement en contexte rituel, et dont l’efficacité dépend d’une opacité sémantique, d’une étrangeté, voire d’une inintelligibilité. Afin de mesurer l’écart qui constitue le caractère ‘barbare’ de ces noms, cet ouvrage rassemble une série d’enquêtes sur divers dossiers – en majorité des textes médio – et néoplatoniciens – qui permettent de comprendre les théories à travers lesquelles l’Antiquité a pensé la relations, et principalement la communication, entre les divers êtres peuplant le Monde – hommes, démons et dieux – chacune de ces classes ayant sa langue, son mode d’expression, sa façon de se situer dans l’ordre hiérarchique du Réel et de se rapporter aux autres. D’Homère à Proclus, à Damascius et au Ps.-Denys l’Aréopagite, de nombreuses théories nous ont été conservées, par exemple sur la langue des dieux et le travail étymologique qui régit leur nomination, sur la ‘voix’ des démons et leur mode de communication avec les hommes, ou encore sur les limites du langage humain, devant qui se dérobent les Principes divins. Dans toutes ces études se noue une liaison forte entre littérature, philosophie et histoire des religions méditerranéennes anciennes, avec le souci de décrire les systèmes de pensée qui entouraient les rituels.

(Texte de la maison d’édition)

Table de matières

Préface
Gérard FREYBURGER et Laurent PERNOT

Avant-Propos
Jean-Daniel DUBOIS, École pratique des hautes études – Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes

Introduction
Luciana Gabriela SOARES SANTOPRETE, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitāt Bonn-Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Philippe HOFFMANN, École pratique des hautes études – Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes

Langage des dieux, musiques des hommes – Michel TARDIEU, Collège de France

Le nom des dieux, la langue des dieux chez Homère – Pierre CHIRON, Université Paris-Est – Institut universitaire de France

Langage des dieux et langage des hommes dans les Oracles chaldaïques – Helmut SENG, Goethe-Universitāt, Francfort-sur-le-Main

Rituels et énoncés barbares dans la Pistis Sophia – Mariano TROIANO, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

Le dire à haute voix : une nouvelle approche des textes de Nag Hammadi – Claudine BESSET-LAMOINE, Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes

Le démon de Socrate et son langage dans la philosophie médio-platonicienne – Claudio MORESCHINI, Université de Pise

La voix des démons dans la tradition médio- et néoplatonicienne – Andrei TIMOTIN, Académie roumaine (IESEE)/Institut de Philosophie ‘Alexandru Dragomir’, Bucarest

L’étymologie dans la procession de l’Étant à partir de l’Un et dans la remontée de l’âme jusqu’à l’Un selon Plotin – Luciana Gabriela SOARES SANTOPRETE, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitāt Bonn-Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

Jamblique : universalisme et noms barbares – Adrien LECERF, Centre Léon Robin – CNRS, Paris

Intellection humaine, inspiration démonique et enthousiasme divin selon Proclus – François LORTIE, Université Laval, Québec -École pratique des hautes études

Adad chez les néoplatoniciens : une lecture assyriologique – Cyntia JEAN, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – Université Libre de Bruxelles

L’ ‘entretien’ philosophique d’ après le commentaire de Proclus au Premier Alcibiade de Platon – Sophie VAN DER MEEREN, Université-Rennes-2

Parler de rien. Damascius sur le principe au-delà de l’Un – Marilena VLAD, Institut de Philosophie ‘Alexandru Dragomir’, Bucarest

Silence divin et pouvoir sacré : la théologie négative, de Plotin au Pseudo-Denys l’Aréopagite – Ghislain CASAS, École pratique des hautes études – École des hautes études en sciences sociales

Les fondements néoplatoniciens du logos théologique chez le Pseudo-Denys l’Aréopagite – Daniel COHEN, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – Université Libre de Bruxelles

L’Hymne au soleil de Martianus Capella : une synthèse entre philosophie grecque et théosophie barbare – Chiara Ombretta TOMMASI, Université de Pise

Bibliographie générale
Index des sources anciennes
Index nominum
Index des thèmes
Index des termes grecs

Lien

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503578972-1

Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity. Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian Debate

Publié le par Luciana Soares

Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity

Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian Debate

Michael Bland Simmons, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015

Description

This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry’s concept of salvation is important for an understanding of those cataclysmic forces, not always theological, that helped convert the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity. Porphyry, a disciple of Plotinus, was the last and greatest anti-Christian writer to vehemently attack the Church before the Constantinian revolution. His contribution to the pagan-Christian debate on universalism can thus shed light on the failure of paganism and the triumph of Christianity in late antiquity. In a broader historical and cultural context this study will address some of the issues central to the debate on universalism, in which Porphyry was passionately involved and which was becoming increasingly significant during the unprecedented series of economic, cultural, political, and military crises of the third century. As the author will argue, Porphyry may have failed to find one way of salvation for all humanity, he nonetheless arrived a hierarchical soteriology, something natural for a Neoplatonist, which resulted in an integrative religious and philosophical system. His system is examined in the context of other developing ideologies of universalism, during a period of unprecedented imperial crises, which were used by the emperors as an agent of political and religious unification. Christianity finally triumphed over its competitors owing to its being perceived to be the only universal salvation cult that was capable of bringing about this unification. In short, it won due to its unique universalist soteriology. By examining a rival to Christianity’s concept of universal salvation, this book will be valuable to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, patristics, church history, and late antiquity.

(Text from the publisher) 

Table of contents

Part I Porphyry of Tyre and the Quest for a Pagan Counterpart to Christian Universalism

1 Porphyry of Tyre

2 Contextualizing a Porphyrian Soteriology

3 De Philosophia ex oraculis

4 The Contra Christianos in the Context of Universalism

5 Eusebius and Porphyry

Part II The Historical and Cultural Context of Universalism

6 The Meaning of Salvation in a Greco-Roman Milieu

7 The Philosophia ex oraculis

8 Porphyry and Iamblichus

9 Eschatological Salvation

10 Historical Context

11 Religious Universalism

12 Conclusions

Link

https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190202392.001.0001/acprof-9780190202392

 

The Platonic Heritage – Further Studies in the History of Platonism and Early Christianity

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Platonic Heritage

Further Studies in the History of Platonism and Early Christianity

John Dillon, Ashgate Variorum, London: Routledge, 2012

Description

Cet ouvrage constitue un recueil des articles publiés entre 1996 et 2006. Cinq articles ont retenu notre attention plus particulièrement étant donné leur lien plus direct avec la thématique de notre cahier :  Plotinus, Speusippus and the Platonic Parmenides; The social role of the philosopher in Athens in the 2nd century CE: some remarks; Pedantry and pedestrianism? Some reflections on the middle Platonic commentary tradition; Monotheism in the Gnostic tradition; An unknown Platonist on God. Voici la présentation générale de l’ouvrage, faite par l’éditeur : 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.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

The riddle of the Timaeus: is Plato sowing clues?;

Plotinus, Speusippus and the Platonic Parmenides;

The Timaeus in the old Academy;

Philip of Opus and the theology of Plato’s Laws;

Atomism in the old Academy;

Theophrastus’ critique of the old Academy in the Metaphysics;

The pleasures and perils of soul-gardening;

Asômatos: nuances of incorporeality in Philo;

Thrasyllus and the Logos;

Plutarch’s debt to Xenocrates;

Plutarch and the inseparable intellect;

Plutarch and God: theodicy and cosmogony in the thought of Plutarch;

Plutarch’s use of unidentified quotations;

The social role of the philosopher in Athens in the 2nd century CE: some remarks; Pedantry and pedestrianism? Some reflections on the middle Platonic commentary tradition;

Monotheism in the Gnostic tradition;

An unknown Platonist on God;

Holy and not so holy: on the interpretation of late antique biography;

Plotinus on whether the stars are causes;

Iamblichus’ Noera Theoria of Aristotle’s Categories;

Iamblichus’ identifications of the subject-matters of the hypotheses;

Iamblichus on the personal daemon;

The theology of Julian’s Hymn to King Helios;

A case-study in commentary: the neoplatonic exegesis of the Prooimia od Plato’s dialogues;

Damascius on procession and return;

‘The eye of the soul’: the doctrine of the higher consciousness in the neoplatonic and sufic traditions;

Indexes

Link

https://www.routledge.com/The-Platonic-Heritage-Further-Studies-in-the-History-of-Platonism-and-Early/Dillon/p/book/9781138110335

Iamblichus and the Foundations of Late Platonism

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Iamblichus and the Foundations of Late Platonism

Eugene Afonasin, John M. Dillon and John F. Finamore (Editors), Leyde: Brill, 2012

Description

Iamblichus of Chalcis (c. 240-c. 325 C.E.), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, gave new life to Neoplatonism with his many philosophical and religious refinements. Once regarded as a religio-magical quack, Iamblichus is now seen as a philosophical innovator who harmonized not only Platonic philosophy with religious ritual but also Platonism with the ancient philosophical and religious tradition. Building on recent scholarship on Iamblichean philosophy, the ten papers in this volume explore various aspects of Iamblichus’ oeuvre. These papers help show that Iamblichus re-invented Neoplatonism and made it the major school of philosophy for centuries after his death.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Front Matter – Eugene Afonasin, John Dillonand John F. Finamore

Introduction – Eugene Afonasin, John Dillon and John F. Finamore

The Pythagorean Way of Life in Clement of Alexandria and Iamblichus – Eugene Afonasin

Chapter 18 of the De Communi Mathematica Scientia Translation and Commentary – Luc Brisson

The Letters of Iamblichus: Popular Philosophy in a Neoplatonic Mode – John Dillon

Iamblichus: The Two-Fold Nature of the Soul and the Causes of Human Agency – Daniela P. Taormina

Iamblichus on Mathematical Entities – Claudia Maggi

The Role of Aesthesis in Theurgy – Gregory Shaw

Iamblichus on the Grades of Virtue – John F. Finamore

The Role of Divine Providence, Will and Love in Iamblichus’ Theory of Theurgic Prayer and Religious Invocation – Crystal Addey

Iamblichus’ Exegesis of Parmenides’ Hypotheses and His Doctrine of Divine Henads – Svetlana Mesyats

Iamblichus and Julian’s “Third Demiurge”: A Proposition – Adrien Lecerf

Index – Eugene Afonasin, John Dillon and John F. Finamore

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/21497

The Syntax of Time

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Syntax of Time

The Phenomenology of Time in Greek Physics and Speculative

Logic from Iamblichus to Anaximander

Peter Manchester, Leiden: Brill, 2005

Description

The fourth century Neoplatonist Iamblichus, interpreting Plotinus on the topic of time, incorporates a ‘diagram of time’ that bears comparison to the figure of double continuity drawn by Husserl in his studies of time. Using that comparison as a bridge, this book seeks a phenomenological recovery of Greek thought about time. It argues that the feature of motion that the word ‘time’ designates in Greek differs from what most modern scholarship has assumed, that the very phenomenon of time has been misidentified for centuries. This leads to corrective readings of Plotinus, Aristotle, Parmenides, and Heraclitus, all looking back to the final phrase of the fragment of Anaximander, from which this volume takes its title: « according to the syntax of time. »

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

 

Chapter One –Two-Dimensional Time in Husserl and Iamblichus

The Problem of the Flowing of Time

The Flux of Consciousness

The Transparency of the Flux

Time-Framing in Locke and Hume

The Dimensions of Transparency

Two-Dimensional Time in Husserl

The Figure of Double Continuity

The Double Intentionality of Disclosure Space

Two-Dimensional Time in Iamblichus

Time as the Sphere of the All

Chapter Two – Time and the Soul in Plotinus

Two-Dimensional Time in Neoplatonism

The Schema of Participation

The Silence of Time in Plotinus

Chapter Three – Everywhere Now: Physical Time in Aristotle

Soul and the Surface of Exoteric Time

The Spanning of Motion

The Scaling of Spans

The Unit of Disclosure Space

The Soul of Physical Time

Chapter Four – Parmenides: Time as the Now

Parmenides Thinks about Time

Signpost 1: Being Ungenerated and Unperishing

Signpost 2: Whole; Signpost 4: The Coherent One

Signpost 3: Now is All at Once and Entirely Total

Conclusion

Chapter Five – Heraclitus and the Need for Time

Review: The Path to Heraclitus

From Husserl to Heraclitus via Iamblichus

Time in Heraclitus: The Circular Joining of ἀεὶ and αἰών

Heraclitus as a Gloss on Anaximander

Appendix 1 – Physical Lectures on Time by Aristotle: A MinimalTranslation

Appendix 2 – Fragment 8 of the Poem of Parmenides: Text and Translation

Bibliography

Index

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/12021