Early philosophical ŪFISM

The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ

Saer El-Jaichi, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2018

Description

This study challenges the conventional image of the tenth-century Sufi mystic Al-Husayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ (d. 929) as an anti-philosophical mystic. Unlike the predominantly theological or text-historical studies which constitute much of the scholarly literature on Ḥallāğ, this study is completely philosophical in nature, placing Ḥallāğ within the tradition of Graeco-Arabic philosophy and emphasizing, in a positive light, his continuity with the pagan Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus. For anyone interested in the origins of philosophical thought in Ṣūfism, who wishes to understand the vast influence that Greek philosophy has had on the development of medieval Islamic mysticism in its formative period, this study will, therefore, be essential reading. Besides calling attention to several important aspects of Ḥallāğ’s thought that have been underemphasized or neglected altogether in previous studies, this one represents the first of its kind in the exploration of Ḥallāğ as a philosopher, that is, as an exponent of metaphysical and theological ideas. That Ḥallāğ was an astonishing and admirable mystic, a great literary talent and a superb Sufi poet, is undeniable. However, the extended answer, which is my thesis, argues that all of these other facets must be understood in terms of Ḥallāğ’s being as a philosopher, namely, as a thinker incorporating Neoplatonic modes of reasoning and argumentation as a result of his immersion in the Graeco-Arabic renaissance of the ninth and tenth centuries. Thus, rather than treating him as a mystic with no interest in philosophical matters, only driven by an irrational urge to experience a super-sensible reality, this study brings to the fore the Neoplatonic logic in Ḥallāğ’s thought, providing an analytical exposition of the philosophical reasoning and conceptualization underlying his Ṣūfism.

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Table of contents

Preface
Abbreviations and Transliteration
Introduction
Methodological considerations
The Arabic Neoplatonic Texts
Structure of the book
Chapter I. God’s Unknowability: Tanzīh as Neoplatonic Via Negativa
I.1 The theological debate in medieval Islam regarding the via negativa: a brief overview
I.2 The attributes of God as seen from Ḥallāğ’s perspective
I.3 The inadequacy of human language to express God
I.4 Ḥallāğ’s via negativa and the Neoplatonic account of God’s non-being
I.5 Final remarks
Chapter II. The Theophanic Creator-God: The Muʿill as One and Multiple
II.1 Causation as non-reciprocal dependence
II.2 Contemplation as the principal mode of creation
II.3 Participation as the principle of existence
II.4 Participation in Plotinus and the AP
II.5 Ḥallāğ’s concept the Muʿill and Neoplatonic Self-contemplation
II.5.1 God’s contemplative role in Ḥallāğ’s creation account
II.6 Is Ḥallāğ a pantheist?
II.7 Final remarks
Chapter III. The Experience of Divine Love, Creation and Cosmology
III.1 Context: The One as source and ultimate goal of all beings
III.2 The idea of “the Good”
III.3 The final cause in the Aristotelian context
III.4 God as a final cause in the AP and Ḥallāğ
III.5 Neoplatonic reversion and its repercussions in Ḥallāğ
III.6 Divine ʿIšq: the source, vehicle and goal of divine self-communication
III.6.1 Text in context: the faṣl fīʾl-ʿišq
III.6.2 God’s self-identical solitude
III.6.3 God’s eternal act of self-intellection as self-desire
III.6.4 God’s self-desire as a means of His self-communication
III.6.5 The procession of Intellect due to God’s radiation
III.7 Final remarks
Chapter IV. The Neoplatonic Role of the Primordial Muḥammad in Ḥallāğ’s Cosmology
IV.1 Emanation through the light of the lamp
IV.2 Muḥammad’s primordial participation in God’s nūr
IV.3 Muḥammad’s demiurgic role
IV.4 The archetypal ideal and final purpose of the cosmos
IV.5 Final remarks
Conclusion
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Bibliography
Index

Link

http://ww.gorgiaspress.com/early-philosophical-sufism

University of Oslo – Department of Classics

Plato and the Ancient Platonic Tradition

Programme

Friday 9th November

13.00 – 13.15: Welcome – Tea/Coffee

13.15 – 14.30: Klaus Corcilius– Universität Tübingen, ‘Practical Reasoning and Participation in the Timaeus

14.30 – 15.45: Pauliina Remes – Uppsala Universitet, ‘From Conversational Virtues to Dialogical Epistemology: Plato and his Commentators’

15.45 – 16.15: Tea/Coffee

16.15 – 17.30: Riccardo Chiaradonna –Università degli studi Roma Tre, ‘‘Existence’ in Neoplatonist Metaphysics’

18.30: Dinner for speakers

Saturday 10th November

9.30 – 10.45: Alexandra Michalewski – Centre Léon Robin, ‘Perception, Recollection and Self-knowledge in Plotinus and other Platonists’

10.45 – 12.00: Jan Opsomer– Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ‘Argumentative structures and strategies in Proclus’ Elements of Theology

12.00 – 12.45: Lunch

12.45 – 14.00: Jonathan Beere– Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ‘Plato on Why Cities are Ruled’

14.00 – 15.15: Rusty Jones– Harvard University, ‘The Real Challenge of Plato’s Republic

15.15 – 15.45: Tea/Coffee

15.45 – 17.00: Panos Dimas– Universitetet i Oslo, ‘False Pleasures in the Philebus

17.00 – 18.15: David Ebrey – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ‘The Philosopher’s Courage and the Right Exchange’

20.15: Conference dinner for speakers and local researchers at the restaurant Olympen, Grønlandsleiret 15.

The Conference is funded by the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas and The Research Council of Norway, and is hosted by the Society for Ancient Philosophy at UiO.

Contact

Time and place: Nov. 9, 2018 – Nov. 10, 2018 2:00 PM, Room 452, Georg Morgenstierne’s House

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Link

https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2018/plato-and-the-ancient.html

Centre Jean Pépin et LEM

Séminaire d’initiation à la philosophie antique

Le Phèdre de Platon

 

 

Description et organisation

Séminaire d’initiation à la philosophie antique. Centre Jean Pépin et LEM dans le cadre du département de philosophie de l’ENS de la rue d’Ulm – Platonisme et Néoplatonisme organisé par Luc Brisson, Pierre Caye et Philippe Hoffmann. Les séances auront lieu les lundis de 15h à 17h Salle L. 369 Département de Physique École Normale Supérieure 24 rue Lhomond (3éme étage)- 75005 Paris. 

Programme

8 octobre 2018 : Luc Brisson, Titres et structure du Phèdre

15 octobre 2018 : André Rehbinder, De l’epideixis au dithyrambe : étude du rapport entre les deux premiers discours du Phèdre.

12 novembre 2018 : Monique Dixsaut, De quelle dialectique Socrate peut-il être amoureux ?

19 novembre 2018 : Luc Brisson, Le mythe central du Phèdre ; source de la doctrine platonicienne de l’âme.

26 novembre 2018 : Sandra Boehringer, Une eau d’une autre source pour la cruche socratique : l’erôs de Sappho dans le Phèdre.

3 décembre 2018 : Emmanuelle Jouet-Pastré, Le jeu de l’écriture dans le Phèdre.

10 décembre 2018 : Giuseppe Cambiano, La rhétorique comme technique dans le Phèdre.

17 décembre 2018 Alexis Pinchard, La langue des dieux chez Platon : un mythe heuristique ?

14 janvier 2018 : Anne Gabrièle Wersinger, Le discours de Lysias.

21 janvier 2019 : Arnaud Macé, La « Pharmacie de Platon». Derrida interprète du Phèdre.

28 janvier 2019 : Dimitri El Murr, Eros et philia dans le Phèdre.

4 février 2019 : Vivien Longhi, De quelles médecines est-il question dans le Phèdre de Platon ?

11 février 2019 : Philippe Hoffmann, Le Phèdre et les doctrines néoplatoniciennes de l’ascension de l’âme (Plotin, Proclus).

Contact

Département de Physique École Normale Supérieure 24 rue Lhomond (3éme étage)- 75005 Paris. 

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Lien

https://umr8230.cnrs.fr/

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.

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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

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.

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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

The Gospel of Thomas and Plato

A Study of the Impact of Platonism on the “Fifth Gospel”

Ivan Miroshnikov, Leiden: Brill, 2018

Description

In The Gospel of Thomas and Plato, Ivan Miroshnikov contributes to the study of the earliest Christian engagements with philosophy by offering the first systematic discussion of the impact of Platonism on the Gospel of Thomas, one of the most intriguing and cryptic works among the Nag Hammadi writings. Miroshnikov demonstrates that a Platonist lens is indispensable to the understanding of a number of the Thomasine sayings that have, for decades, remained elusive as exegetical cruces. The Gospel of Thomas is thus an important witness to the early stages of the process that eventually led to the Platonist formulation of certain Christian dogmata.

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Table of contents

Acknowledgements

A Note to the Reader

Setting the Scene

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on the World

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on the Body and the Soul

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on Oneness

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on Stability

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on Immutability and Indivisibility

The Gospel of Thomas and the Platonists on Freedom from Anger

Thomasine Metaphysics of the Image and Its Platonist Background

Concluding Remarks

The Greek Vorlage of Gos. Thom. 12:2

The Secondary Nature of Gos. Thom. 5:3

A Note on Gos. Thom. 77:1

Bibliography

Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/38096

Panthéon Sorbonne

Les Éléments de théologie de Proclus 

interprétations, réceptions de l’Antiquité à nos jours

Description et organisation

Ce colloque marque l’aboutissement d’une nouvelle traduction menée, pendant plusieurs années, par un groupe de chercheurs français et étrangers, des Éléments de théologie de Proclus. Cette œuvre fondamentale a à la fois constitué la métaphysique néoplatonicienne en système, et opéré comme le principal relais de la transmission du platonisme au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance. Par l’intermédiaire du Pseudo-Denys et du Liber de causis, elle a aussi eu une influence déterminante sur la philosophie byzantine et arabe. On peut encore en suivre la postérité dans la pensée anglaise, la métaphysique classique, et l’idéalisme allemand. Ce sont ces effets de transmission et d’hé­ ritage que nous nous proposons d’évaluer, à partir de trois questions centrales : « Systématicité », « Causalité », « Théologie ». Nous en interrogerons tant la formulation dans le texte même des Eléments que les reprises et réinterprétations, en cherchant à voir comment, à chacune de ces questions, correspondent des séquences distinctes de réception.

Programme

Jeudi 24 Mai

9h30 Présentation

Présidence : Luc BRISSON (Centre Jean Pépin, CNRS-ENS/LabEx HaStec)

10h Carlos STEEL (KU Leuven) La tradition manuscrite des Éléments de Théologie et l’apport des traductions anciennes

11h Joshua ROBINSON (Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies) Michael Psellos’ use of the Elements of Theology in the Interpretation of Christian Theology

Présidence : Gwenaëlle AUBRY (Centre Jean Pépin, CNRS-ENS/LabEx HaStec)

14h30 Lela ALEXIDSE (Univ. de Tbilissi) La hiérarchie ontologique dans le commentaire de Ioane Petritsi sur les Éléments de Théologie de Proclus

15h30 Alain LERNOULD (CNRS-STL) Sur la forme dite more geometrico des Éléments de Théologie de Proclus

17h Jan OPSOMER (KU Leuven) Structures argumentatives dans les Éléments de Théologie

Vendredi 25 mai 2018

Présidence : Jean-Baptiste BRENET (Université Paris- I)

9h Pieter d’HOINE (KU Leuven) Totalité et individu dans la proposition 67 des Éléments de Théologie

10h Cristina d’ANCONA (Univ. de Pise) Intellectualiter, vitaliter, enter : Proclus à Bagdad et à Paris

11h30 Julie CASTEIGT (Univ. Toulouse-II/LEM) La réception de la proposition 103 des Éléments de Théologie dans l’œuvre d’Albert le Grand

Présidence : Pierre-Marie MOREL (Université Paris- I)

14h30 Philippe HOFFMANN (EPHE-PSL, CNRS-LEM/LabEx HaStec) Le temps et l’éternité dans les Éléments de Théologie

15h30 Philippe SOULIER (CAPHI, Nantes) Structures argumentatives dans les Éléments de Théologie

17h Frédéric de BUZON (Univ. de Strasbourg) Les deux Proclus de Leibniz

Samedi 26 mai 2018

Présidence : Pierre CAYE (Centre Jean Pépin, CNRS-ENS)

9h Saverio ANSALDI (Univ. de Reims) L’écriture d’une nouvelle métaphysique : Giordano Bruno lecteur des Éléments de Théologie

10h Douglas HEDLEY (Univ. de Cambridge) Traces of the Elementatio theologica from Cudworth to Coleridge

11h Emmanuel CATTIN (Sorbonne Univ.) Théologie. Hegel et Proclus

Contact

Philo-Recherche@univ-paris1.fr

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Lien

https://www.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/elements-theologie-proclus-interpretations-receptions-lantiquite-nos-jours#:~:text=Colloque-,Les%20%C3%89l%C3%A9ments%20de%20th%C3%A9ologie%20de%20Proclus%20%3A%20interpr%C3%A9tations%2C%20r%C3%A9ceptions%20de%20l,%C3%89l%C3%A9ments%20de%20th%C3%A9ologie%20de%20Proclus.

Plotinus on Consciousness

D.M. Hutchinson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Description

Plotinus is the first Greek philosopher to hold a systematic theory of consciousness. The key feature of his theory is that it involves multiple layers of experience: different layers of consciousness occur in different levels of self. This layering of higher modes of consciousness on lower ones provides human beings with a rich experiential world, and enables human beings to draw on their own experience to investigate their true self and the nature of reality. This involves a robust notion of subjectivity. However, it is a notion of subjectivity that is unique to Plotinus, and remarkably different from the Post-Cartesian tradition. Behind the plurality of terms Plotinus uses to express consciousness, and behind the plurality of entities to which Plotinus attributes consciousness (such as the divine souls and the hypostases), lies a theory of human consciousness. It is a Platonist theory shaped by engagement with rival schools of ancient thought. Argues that the concept of consciousness existed in the ancient world and can be disentangled from Descartes and the Post-Cartesian tradition; Proposes a new interpretation of Plotinus’ philosophy of mind; Examines Plotinus’ theory of consciousness in dialogue with Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics

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Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Text

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Self

Chapter 2 – Conciousness Terms

Chapter 3 – First Layer :  the soul-trace

Chapter 4 – Second Layer :  the lower soul

Chapter 5 – Third Layer : the higher soul

Chapter 6 – Self-Determination

Chapter 7 – Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

General Index

Index Locorum

Link

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-philosophy/plotinus-consciousness?format=HB&isbn=9781108424769#hwQ3e40BZqIeQOXw.97

Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus

Nicholas Banner, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Description

Plotinus, the greatest philosopher of Late Antiquity, discusses at length a first principle of reality – the One – which, he tells us, cannot be expressed in words or grasped in thought. How and why, then, does Plotinus write about it at all? This book explores this act of writing the unwritable. Seeking to explain what seems to be an insoluble paradox in the very practice of late Platonist writing, it examines not only the philosophical concerns involved, but the cultural and rhetorical aspects of the question. The discussion outlines an ancient practice of ‛philosophical silence’ which determined the themes and tropes of public secrecy appropriate to Late Platonist philosophy. Through philosophic silence, public secrecy and silence flow into one another, and the unsaid space of the text becomes an initiatory secret. Understanding this mode of discourse allows us to resolve many apparent contradictions in Plotinus’ thought.

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Table of contents

Introduction pp 1-16

PART I – The Cultural Roots of Platonist Philosophic Silence pp 17-18

1 – De philosophorum Græcorum silentio mystico: Preliminaries pp 19-40

2 – The Silent Philosopher pp 41-85

3 – Perennial Wisdom and Platonist Tradition pp 86-124

4 – Plotinus and ‘The Ancients’: Tradition, Truth and Transcendence pp 125-144

PART II – The Transcendent Absolute, the Ineffable and Plotinian Poetics of Transcendence pp 145-146

5 – The Development of the Transcendent Absolute in the Middle Platonist Milieu pp 147-175

6 – The Transcendent Absolute and the Ineffability of Reality in Plotinus pp 176-210

7 – The Poetics of Transcendence in Plotinus pp 211-240

Conclusion pp 241-250

Appendices pp 251-252

Appendix A – The Plotinian Idea of Tradition and ‘Platonism’ pp 253-256

Appendix B – Esoteric Hermeneutics, Plato and Aristotle in Plotinus pp 257-260

Appendix C – Some Useful Notes on Plotinian Metaphysics pp 261-265

Appendix D – Modern Theories of Philosophic Silence pp 266-273

Select Primary Bibliography pp 274-275

Secondary Bibliography pp 276-295

Index pp 296-299

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/philosophic-silence-and-the-one-in-plotinus/144FDD8D6A57E4F1F03B1247EDEFBFE0#fndtn-information

 

La Prière dans la tradition platonicienne, de Platon à Proclus

A. Timotin, Turnhout: Brepolis, 2018
Description
Le présent ouvrage étudie la prière comme catégorie de la pensée religieuse platonicienne, de Platon à la fin de l’Antiquité. The present book studies prayer as a category of Platonic religious thought, from Plato to Late Antiquity. Following a chronological framework (Plato, the pseudo-Platonic Second Alcibiades, Maximus of Tyre, Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus), the book examines the relationship between philosophical reflection on prayer and a series of themes and related topics: the criticism and the interpretation of traditional cults, the conceptualization of religious emotions, the philosophical explanation of how astrology and magic work, the theories of the soul, and the theological description of reality in Late Neoplatonism. The book aims to contribute to shed new light on the relationship between religion and philosophy in Antiquity and, in particular, on the forms of “scientific” religion that appear and develop in the philosophical schools in Late Antiquity. Special attention is paid to the relationship between philosophy, religion, and rhetoric. The rhetorical dimension of prayer is explored in relation to the role of persuasion and emotion in prayer and to the idea that exegetical commentary represents a hymn in prose addressed to the gods. Le présent ouvrage a pour objet la prière comme catégorie de la pensée religieuse platonicienne, de Platon à la fin de l’Antiquité. En suivant un plan chronologique (Platon, le Second Alcibiade pseudo-platonicien, Maxime de Tyr, Plotin, Porphyre, Jamblique, Proclus), il étudie la relation entre la réflexion philosophique sur la prière et une série de thèmes et de questions connexes : la critique et l’interprétation des cultes traditionnels, la conceptualisation des émotions religieuses, l’explication philosophique du fonctionnement de l’astrologie et de la magie, les théories de l’âme et la description théologique du réel dans le néoplatonisme tardif. Cette recherche souhaite contribuer à jeter un éclairage nouveau sur les rapports entre religion et philosophie dans l’Antiquité et, en particulier, sur les formes « scientifiques » de religion qui apparaissent et se développent dans les écoles philosophiques à la fin de l’Antiquité. Une attention particulière est prêtée à la relation entre philosophie, religion et rhétorique. La dimension rhétorique de la prière est explorée en relation avec le rôle de la persuasion et de l’affectivité dans la prière et avec la conception selon laquelle le commentaire exégétique représente un hymne en prose adressé aux dieux.

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Table de matières

I. Introduction

II. Platon. Prières des impies, prières des sages

  1. Prier selon la loi
  2. Les prières platoniciennes et la tradition religieuse

III. Le Second Alcibiade. À la recherche de la prière idéale

  1. Le Second Alcibiade et la pensée religieuse à l’époque hellénistique
  2. La prière de l’ἄφρων : demander un mal au lieu d’un bien
  3. La prière pour les ἐσθλά du poète anonyme
  4. La prière des Athéniens et la prière des Spartiates

IV. Maxime de Tyr. Prière traditionnelle et prière du philosophe

  1. La critique de la prière traditionnelle
  2. La définition d’une « prière du philosophe »

V. Plotin. Prière « magique » et prière du νοῦς

  1. Prière, providence et responsabilité individuelle
  2. Les prières peuvent-elles contraindre les astres?
  3. Prier et attendre Dieu

VI. Porphyre. Hiérarchie des êtres divins, hiérarchie des prières

  1. La défense de la prière dans le Commentaire sur le Timée
  2. La Lettre à Anébon : prier n’est ni contraindre, ni pâtir
  3. La place de la prière dans la théorie du sacrifice
  4. Prière du sage, prière des théurges

VII. Jamblique. La prière théurgique

  1. Les réponses de Jamblique aux objections de Porphyre
  2. La théorie de la prière de Jamblique
  3. La prière finale de la Réponse à Porphyre (De mysteriis)

VIII. Proclus. La prière cosmique

  1. L’οὐσία de la prière
  2. La τελειότης de la prière
  3. Les causes et les modes de la prière
  4. La pratique de la prière

IX. Conclusions

Bibliographie
1. Sources
2. Littérature secondaire
Index locorum
Index rerum
Index verborum

Lien

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503574820-1