Base de données – Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
LEM/École Pratique des Hautes Études

Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive

Description et organisation

Pour accéder à la base de données « Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive » qui a été crée avec ce carnet de recherches cliquez sur http://philognose.org. Cette base de données permet de réaliser des recherches croisées entre les corpus philosophiques, gnostiques, hermétistes et chaldaïques, portant sur le vocabulaire, les doctrines et la bibliographie afférente.

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Link

https://platonismes.huma-num.fr/ 

Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Religious Competition in the Third Century CE:

Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World

Nathaniel DesRosiers,‎ Jordan D Rosenblum,‎ Lily Vuong, (eds), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Supplement edition, 2013

Description

The essays in this work examine issues related to authority, identity, or change in religious and philosophical traditions of the third century CE. This century is of particular interest because of the political and cultural developments and conflicts that occurred during this period, which in turn drastically changed the social and religious landscape of the Roman world. The specific focus of this volume edited by Jordan D. Rosenblum, Lily Vuong, and Nathaniel DesRosiers is to explore these major creative movements and to examine their strategies for developing and designating orthodoxies and orthopraxies. Contributors were encouraged to analyze or construct the intersections between parallel religious and philosophical communities of the third century, including points of contact either between or among Jews, Christians, pagans, and philosophers. As a result, the discussions of the material contained within this volume are both comparative in nature and interdisciplinary in approach, engaging participants who work in the fields of Religious Studies, Philosophy, History and Archaeology. The overall goal was to explore dialogues between individuals or groups that illuminate the mutual competition and influence that was extant among them, and to put forth a general methodological framework for the study of these ancient dialogues. These religious and philosophical dialogues are not only of great interest and import in their own right, but they also can help us to understand how later cultural and religious developments unfolded.

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Table of content

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I: Assessing Religious Competition in the Third Century : Methods and Approaches

Daniel C. Ullucci – What Did He Say ? The Ideas of Religious Experts and the 99 %

Heidi Marx-Wolf – Pythagoras the Theurgist Porphyry and Iamblichus on the Role of Ritual in the Philosophical Life

Arthur P. Urbano – Narratives of Decline and Renewal in the Writing of Philosophical History

Steven J. Larson – The Trouble with Religious Tolerance in Roman Antiquity

Kevin M. McGinnis – Sanctifying Interpretation The Christian Interpreter as Priest in Origen

Andrew B. McGowan – Rehashing the Leftovers of Idols Cyprian and Early Christian Constructions of Sacrifice

II: Ritual Space and Practice

Gregg E. Gardner – Competitive Giving in the Third Century CE Early Rabbinic Approaches to Greco-Roman Civic Benefaction

Nathaniel P. DesRosiers – Oath and Anti-Oath Alternating Forms of Community Building in the Third Century

Jordan D. Rosenblum and Daniel C. Ullucci – Qualifying Rabbinic Ritual Agents Cognitive Science and the Early Rabbinic Kitchen

Lily C. Vuong – The Temple Persists Collective Memories of the Jewish Temple in Christian Narrative Imagination

Jacob A. Latham – Battling Bishops, the Roman Aristocracy, and the Contestation of Civic Space in Late Antique Rome

III: Modes of Competition

Karen B. Stern – Inscription as Religious Competition in Third-Century Syria

Gil P. Klein – Spatial Struggle Intercity Relations and the Topography of Intra-Rabbinic Competition

Ari Finkelstein – The Use of Jews in Julian’s Program “Dying for the Law” in the Letter to Theodorus – A Case Study

Todd S. Berzon – Heresiology as Ethnography Theorising Christian Difference

Todd C. Krulak – The Damascian Dichotomy Contention and Concord in the History of Late Platonism

Ross S. Kraemer – Gendering (the) Competition Religious Competition in the Third Century : Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World

List of Abbreviations

Collected Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-ecclesiastical-history/article/abs/religious-competition-in-the-third-century-ce-jews-christians-and-the-grecoroman-world-edited-by-jordan-d-rosenblum-lily-c-young-and-nathaniel-p-desrosiers-supplements-to-journal-of-ancient-judaism-15-pp-260-gottingen-vandenhoeck-and-ruprecht-2014-7999-978-3-525-55068-7/CE317EF95CAE3D39D64AB1AEE9D941CF

Priests and Prophets among Pagans, Jews and Christians

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Priests and Prophets among Pagans, Jews and Christians

Dignas B., Parker R., Stroumsa G.G. (eds), Leuven: Peeters, 2013

Description

The emperor Julian pointed out that the duties of priesthood were better understood among ‘the impious Galileans’ (i.e. Christians) than among his pagan contemporaries. Like the emperor, the essays in this volume look in both directions. Its pages are populated by very diverse figures: Plutarch, Aelius Aristides, Alexander of Abonouteichos, Daniel the Stylite, Gregory of Nazianzus, Shenoute of Atripe, Mani, Muhammad, and a host of anonymous Greek and Roman priests, prophets, and diviners. The priests of second temple Judaism are considered too. Both in the Greco-Roman and the early Christian worlds the neat division between priests and prophets proves hard to sustain. But in terms of fame and influence a strong contrast emerges between Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian prophets; this is why it is only among Jews and Christians that ‘false prophets’ are feared. Two recurrent preoccupations are the relation of priests and prophets to secular power, and the priest/prophet not as reality but as idea, an imagined figure. Leading scholars of the religions of antiquity come together in this wide-ranging and innovative volume.

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Table of contents

Preface

Notes on Contributors

R. PARKER, Introduction

J. SCHEID, Priests and Prophets in Rome

T. RAJAK, Investment in/of the Jerusalem Priesthood in the Second Temple and Beyond

N. MCLYNN, Aelius Aristides and the Priests

B. DIGNAS, Greek Priests in the First Three Centuries CE: Traditional, Diverse, Wholly New?

N. BELAYCHE, Priests as Diviners: An Impact on Religious Changes in Imperial Anatolia?

J.N. BREMMER, The Representation of Priests and Priestesses in the Pagan and Christian Greek Novel

S. ELM, Priest and Prophet: Gregory of Nazianzus’s Concept of Christian Leadership as Theosis

K. TRAMPEDACH, Daniel Stylites and Leo I: an Uneasy Relationship between Saint and Emperor

G.G. STROUMSA, False Prophets of Early Christianity

Index of names, subjects and passages.

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/database/byz/entry/byz.62473d6d-6bbf-47c0-812e-b03d7390da1d/html

History of Platonism : Plato redivivus 

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

History of Platonism

Plato redivivus 

Berchman, Robert M., Finamore, John F., University Press of the South, 2005

Description

Following from the centuries of philosophical and religious thinkers who have studied and used Plato’s 4th Century B.C. doctrines, this anthology offers interpretations of Plato’s own works. The authors consider the intermediary role of Aristotle, the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, the religious and mystical theories of later Neoplatonic sources (including Egyptian writings), the effect of Platonic philosophy on Jewish writers during the Middle Ages, the adaptations of Cambridge Platonists, the Neoplatonic basis of Jung’s psychological writings, and the role of Plato’s doctrines in 20th Century Post-Modern philosophy.

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Republic VI 509a9-c10 and its interpretation in antiquity : dialogical or dogmatic reading – Luc Brisson

Immortality vs. tripartition : the soul in Plato – Gwendolyn Gruber

The tripartite Soul in Plato’s Republic and Phaedrus – John F. Finamore

Erãos as institution : a consideration of why Plato wrote the Symposium – Matthew E. Kenney

Metaphors : thinking and being in Aristotle and Plotinus – Robert Berchman

Plotinus’ Philosophical Opposition to gnosticism and the implicit axiom of continuous hierarchy – Zeke Mazur

Plotinus : self and consciousness – Gary M. Gurtler

Alone to the Alone: The ascent to the One in Plotinus – Deepa Majumdar

The Sphere and the Altar of Sacrifice – Gregory Shaw

The Egyptian Book of the dead and Neoplatonic Philosophy – Algis Uzdavinys

Theories of nature in ancient platonism – John Phillips

A physics for the psyche? : Proclus’ Instituta physica and the « life » of the soul – Emilie Kutash

Damaskios’ new conception of metaphysics – Carolle Tresson & Alain Metry

« The Torah speaks in the language of humans » : on some uses of Plato’s theory of myth in medieval Jewish philosophy – Aaron Hughes

The manifest image : revealing the hidden in Halevi, Saadya and Ibn Gabirol – Sarah Pessin

Prophecy, imagination and the poet’s fine frenzy : reflections of a Cambridge platonist – Douglas Hedley

Listening to the voice of fire : theurgical fitness and esoteric sensitivity – Leonard George

Evolution, Jung, and theurgy : their role in modern neoplatonism – Bruce MacLennan

The problem of the self and its centre : postmodernism and neoplatonism – Kevin Corrigan.

Bibliography

Link

http://www.unprsouth.com/history_of_platonism.html

Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World

Kevin Corrigan & Tuomas Rasimus (eds.) Leyde: Brill, 2013

Description

This Festschrift honors the life and work of John D. Turner (Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln) on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Professor Turner’s work has been of profound importance for the study of the interaction between Greek philosophy and Gnosticism in late antiquity. This volume contains essays by international scholars on a broad range of topics that deal with Sethian, Valentinian and other early Christian thought, as well as with Platonism and Neoplatonism, and offer a variety of perspectives spanning intellectual history, Greek and Coptic philology, and the study of religions.

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A Distinctive Intertextuality: Genesis and Platonizing Philosophy in The Secret Revelation of John – Karen L. King

The Three Forms of First Thought (NHC XIII,1), and the Secret Book of John (NHC II,1 and par.) – Paul-Hubert Poirier

Emissaries of Truth and Justice: The Seed of Seth as Agents of Divine Providence – Lance Jenott

Sethian Names in Magical Texts: Protophanes and Meirotheos – Einar Thomassen

“Third Ones and Fourth Ones”: Some Reflections on the Use of Indefinite Ordinals in Zostrianos – Wolf-Peter Funk

Le quatrième écrit du codex Tchacos: les livres d’Allogène et la tradition littéraire séthienne – Louis Painchaud

The Book of Allogenes (CT,4) and Sethian Gnosticism – Birger A. Pearson

The Temptation of Allogenes (Codex Tchacos, Tractate IV) – Madeleine Scopello

Martin Hengel and the Origins of Gnosticism – Volker Henning Drecoll

Arithmos and Kosmos: Arithmology as an Exegetical Tool in the De Opificio Mundi of Philo of Alexandria – Robert M. Berchman

Parole intérieure et parole proférée chez Philon d’Alexandrie et dans l’Évangile de la Vérité (NH I,3) – Anne Pasquier

Remarques sur la cohérence des Extraits de Théodote – Jean-Daniel Dubois

Evidence of “Valentinian” Ritual Practice? The Liturgical Fragments of Nag Hammadi Codex XI (NHC XI,2a–e) – Hugo Lundhaug

A Salvific Act of Transformation or a Symbol of Defilement? Baptism in Valentinian Liturgical Readings (NHC XI,2) and in the Testimony of Truth (NHC IX,3) – Antti Marjanen

“The Garment Poured its Entire Self over Me”: Christian Baptismal Traditions and the Origins of the Hymn of the Pearl – Dylan M. Burns

Alexander of Lycopolis, Manichaeism and Neoplatonism – Johannes van Oort

Crafting Gnosis: Gnostic Spirituality in the Ancient New Age – April D. DeConick

The Symposium and Republic in the Mystical Thought of Plotinus and the Sethian Gnostics – Kevin Corrigan

“Those Who Ascend to the Sanctuaries of the Temples”: The Gnostic Context of Plotinus’ First Treatise, 1.6 [1], On Beauty – Zeke Mazur

Johannine Background of the Being-Life-Mind Triad – Tuomas Rasimus

The Neopythagorean Backdrop to the Fall (σφαλμα/νευσισ) of the Soul in Gnosticism and its Echo in the Plotinian Treatises 33 and 34 – Jean-Marc Narbonne

Écho et les antitypes – Michel Tardieu

Plotinus and the Magical Rites Practiced by the Gnostics – Luc Brisson

Where Did Matter Appear From? A Syntactic Problem in a Plotinian anti-Gnostic Treatise – Lorenzo Ferroni

Plotinus, Epicurus, and the Gnostics: On Plotinian Classification of Philosophies – Andrei Cornea

Plotinus and the Vehicle of the Soul – John Dillon

Life and Happiness in the “Platonic Underworld” – Michael A. Williams

Trial by Fire: An Ontological Reading of Katharsis – Svetla Slaveva-Griffin

“Harmonizing” Aristotle’s Categories and Plato’s Parmenides before the Background of Natural Philosophy – Gerald Bechtle

Christians against Matter: A Bouquet for Bishop Berkeley – Mark Edwards

Proclus against the Gnostics? Some Remarks on a Subtle Allusion in the Timaeus-Commentary concerning Caves and Cages – Benjamin Gleede

Imagination and Psychic Body: Apparitions of the Divine and Geometric Imagination according to Proclus – Alain Lernould

Neoplatonizing Gnosticism and Gnosticizing Neoplatonism in the “American Baroque” – Jay Bregman

Indexes

Link
https://brill.com/view/title/21257

Apocalypse of the Alien God

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Apocalypse of the Alien God

Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism

Dylan M. Burns, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014

Description

In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, « What is Plato but Moses speaking Greek? » Four hundred years later, a Christian emperor had ended the public teaching of subversive Platonic thought. When and how did this philosophical rupture occur? Dylan M. Burns argues that the fundamental break occurred in Rome, ca. 263, in the circle of the great mystic Plotinus, author of the Enneads. Groups of controversial Christian metaphysicians called Gnostics (« knowers ») frequented his seminars, disputed his views, and then disappeared from the history of philosophy—until the 1945 discovery, at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of codices containing Gnostic literature, including versions of the books circulated by Plotinus’s Christian opponents. Blending state-of-the-art Greek metaphysics and ecstatic Jewish mysticism, these texts describe techniques for entering celestial realms, participating in the angelic liturgy, confronting the transcendent God, and even becoming a divine being oneself. They also describe the revelation of an alien God to his elect, a race of « foreigners » under the protection of the patriarch Seth, whose interventions will ultimately culminate in the end of the world. Apocalypse of the Alien God proposes a radical interpretation of these long-lost apocalypses, placing them firmly in the context of Judeo-Christian authorship rather than ascribing them to a pagan offshoot of Gnosticism. According to Burns, this Sethian literature emerged along the fault lines between Judaism and Christianity, drew on traditions known to scholars from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Enochic texts, and ultimately catalyzed the rivalry of Platonism with Christianity. Plunging the reader into the culture wars and classrooms of the high Empire, Apocalypse of the Alien God offers the most concrete social and historical description available of any group of Gnostic Christians as it explores the intersections of ancient Judaism, Christianity, Hellenism, myth, and philosophy.

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Table of contents

ABBREVIATIONS

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 – Culture Wars

CHAPTER 2 – Plotinus Against His Gnostic Friends

CHAPTER 3 – Other Ways of Writing

CHAPTER 4 – The Descent

CHAPTER 5 – The Ascent

CHAPTER 6 – The Crown

CHAPTER 7 – Between Judaism, Christianity, and Neoplatonism

APPENDIX: READING PORPHYRY ON THE GNOSTIC HERETICS AND THEIR APOCALYPSES

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Link

https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15230.html

Histories of the Hidden God: Concealment and Revelation in Western Gnostic, Esoteric, and Mystical Traditions 

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Histories of the Hidden God

Concealment and Revelation in Western Gnostic, Esoteric, and Mystical Traditions 

April D DeConick, Grant Adamson (Editors), London: Routledge, 2013

Description

In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a tension between a God who is simultaneously accessible to humanity and yet inaccessible, a God who is both immanent and transcendent, present and absent. Western Gnostic, esoteric, and mystical thinking capitalizes on the hidden and hiding God. He becomes the hallmark of the mystics, Gnostics, sages, and artists who attempt to make accessible to humans the God who is secreted away. ‘Histories of the Hidden God’ explores this tradition from antiquity to today. The essays focus on three essential themes: the concealment of the hidden God; the human quest for the hidden God, and revelations of the hidden God.

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Part I – Concealment of the Hidden God

1 – Who is hiding in the Gospel of John? Reconceptualizing Johannine theology and the roots of Gnosticism – April D. DeConick, Rice University

2 – Adoil outside the cosmos: God before and after Creation in the Enochic tradition – Andrei A. Orlov, Marquette University

3 – The old gods of Egypt in lost Hermetica and early Sethianism – Grant Adamson, Rice University

4 – Hidden God and hidden self: The emergence of apophatic anthropology in Christian mysticism – Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago

5 – God’s occulted body: On the hiddenness of Christ in Alan of Lille’s Anticlaudianus – Claire Fanger, Rice University

Part II – The Human Quest for the Hidden God

6 – Obscured by the scriptures, revealed by the prophets: God in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies – Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edward’s University

7 – How hidden was God? Revelation and pedagogy in ancient and medieval Hermetic writings – David Porreca, Rice University

8 – From hidden to revealed in Sethian revelation, ritual, and protology – John D. Turner, University of Nebraska

9 – Shamanism and the hidden history of modern Kabbalah – Jonathan Garb, Hebrew University

10 – Dreaming of paradise: Seeing the hidden God in Islam – David Cook, Rice University

Part III – Revelations of the Hidden God

11 – Revealing and concealing God in ancient synagogue art – Shira Lander, Rice University

12 – The invisible Christian God in Christian art – Robin M. Jensen, Vanderbilt University

13 – On the Mothman, God, and other monsters: The demonology of John A. Keel – Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University

14 – Hidden away: Esotericism and Gnosticism in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam – Stephen C. Finley, Louisiana State University

15 – Conscious concealment: The repression and expression of African American Spiritualists – Margarita Simon Guillory, Rochester University

16 – Occulture in the academy? The case of Joseph P. Farrell – John Stroup, Rice University

Afterword: Mysticism, Gnosticism, and esotericism as entangled discourses – Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Groningen

Bibliography

Index

Link

https://www.routledge.com/Histories-of-the-Hidden-God-Concealment-and-Revelation-in-Western-Gnostic/DeConick-Adamson/p/book/9781138664302

Religious Conflict from Early Christianity to the Rise of Islam

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Religious Conflict from Early Christianity to the Rise of Islam

Mayer, Wendy & Neil, Berlin: De Gruyter, Bronwen, 2013

Description

Conflict has been an inescapable facet of religion from its very beginnings. This volume offers insight into the mechanisms at play in the centuries from the Jesus-movement’s first attempts to define itself over and against Judaism to the beginnings of Islam. Profiling research by scholars of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University, the essays document inter- and intra-religious conflict from a variety of angles. Topics relevant to the early centuries range from religious conflict between different parts of the Christian canon, types of conflict, the origins of conflict, strategies for winning, for conflict resolution, and the emergence of a language of conflict. For the fourth to seventh centuries case studies from Asia Minor, Syria, Constantinople, Gaul, Arabia and Egypt are presented. The volume closes with examinations of the Christian and Jewish response to Islam, and of Islam’s response to Christianity. Given the political and religious tensions in the world today, this volume is well positioned to find relevance and meaning in societies still grappling with the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Abbreviations

Religious Conflict: Definitions, Problems and Theoretical Approaches

Setting the Record Straight at Galatia: Paul’s Narratio (Gal 1:13–2:14) as Response to the Galatian Conflict – Elmer, Ian J.

Early Christian Polemic against Jews and the Persecution of Christians in Rome by Nero – McLaren, James S.

The Use of Isaiah 28:11–12 in 1 Corinthians 14:21 – Theophilos, Michael P. / Smith, A.M.

Conflict in the Canon: The Pauline Literature and the Gospel of Matthew – Sim, David C.

Rewriting: The Path from Apocryphal to Heretical – Piovanelli, Pierluigi

Inter-City Conflict in the Story of St Michael of Chonai – Cadwallader, Alan H.

John Chrysostom and the Anomoeans: Shaping an Antiochene Perspective on Christology – Laird, Raymond J.

Media Manipulation as a Tool in Religious Conflict: Controlling the Narrative Surrounding the Deposition of John Chrysostom – Mayer, Wendy

Zosimus and the Gallic Churches – Dunn, Geoffrey D.

Religious Conflict between Antioch and Alexandria c. 565–630 CE – Allen, Pauline

Christian-Jewish Conflict in the Light of Heraclius’ Forced Conversions and the Beginning of Islam – Gador-Whyte, Sarah

The Earliest Greek Understandings of Islam: John of Damascus and Theophanes the Confessor – Neil, Bronwen

Muhammad the Eschatological Prophet – Casey, Damien

List of Contributors

Index of Names and Places

General Index

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110291940/html

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife

Publié le par Luciana Soares

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife

Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets

Fritz Graf & Sarah Iles Johnston, London: Routledge, 2013

Description

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it.  These texts, dating from the late fifth century BCE to the second century CE, have been part of the scholarly debate on ancient afterlife beliefs since the end of the nineteenth century.  Recent finds and analysis of the texts have reshaped our understanding of their purpose and of the perceived afterlife. The tablets belonged to those who had been initiated into the mysteries of Dionysus Bacchius and relied heavily upon myths narrated in poems ascribed to the mythical singer Orpheus.  After providing the Greek text and a translation of all the available tablets, the authors analyze their role in the mysteries of Dionysus, and present an outline of the myths concerning the origins of humanity and of the sacred texts that the Greeks ascribed to Orpheus.  Related ancient texts are also appended in English translations.  Providing the first book-length edition and discussion of these enigmatic texts in English, and their first English translation, this book is essential to the study of ancient Greek religion.

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Link

https://www.routledge.com/Ritual-Texts-for-the-Afterlife-Orpheus-and-the-Bacchic-Gold-Tablets/Graf-Johnston-Graf-Johnston/p/book/9780415508032?gclid=CjwKCAiAmrOBBhA0EiwArn3mfBz14mApyNxJtWdK0LCDgjo7HKTiH51Waya94Z3JvzSnpmxX9EPD2RoCdG4QAvD_BwE

Literary, Philosophical, and Religious Studies in the Platonic Tradition

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Literary, Philosophical, and Religious Studies in the Platonic Tradition

John F. Finamore and John Phillips, Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2013

Description

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.

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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

Link

https://www.nomos-shop.de/academia/titel/literary-philosophical-and-religious-studies-in-the-platonic-tradition-id-89731/