Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions
From Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period
Kevin Corrigan, John D. Turner and Peter Wakefield, Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2012
Description
This book explores the intimate connections, conflicts and discontinuities between religion and philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions from Antiquity to the early Medieval period. It presents a broader comparative view of Platonism by examining the strong Platonist resonances among different philosophical/religious traditions, primarily Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Hindu, and suggests many new ways of thinking about the relation between these two fields or disciplines that have in modern times become such distinct and, at times, entirely separate domains.
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Introduction: Kevin Corrigan, John D. Turner and Peter Wakefield
In Memory of Steven K. Strange
Part I: Religion, Philosophy, Divine Inspiration and Religious Piety in the pre-Platonic and Platonic Traditions
- Suzanne Stern-Gillet (University of Bolton, UK): “Divine Inspiration Transformed: From Hesiod to Ficino.”
- Kevin Corrigan (Emory University): “Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic tradition.”
- John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin, Emeritus): “The Religion of the last Hellenes.”
Part II: Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions
- Steven K. Strange (Emory University): “Plotinus and the Ancients”
- Michael Harrington (Duquesne University): « The Emperor Julian’s Use of Neoplatonic Philosophy and Religion.
- John Phillips (University of Tennessee): “Proclus and others on Divine Causation”.
- John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin, Emeritus): “Philosophy and Theology in Proclus.”
- Gerald Bechtle (University of Bern, Switzerland): “Categories and Conversion.”
- Luc Brisson (CNRS, Paris, France): “Allegory as used by the later Neoplatonic philosophers.”
Part III: Comparative Perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Hindu
10 Sarah Pessin (University of Denver): “Divine Presence, Divine Absence and the Plotinian Apophatic Dialectic: Isaac Israeli.”
- John D. Turner (University of Nebraska, Lincoln): “The Curious Philosophical World of Later Religious Gnosticism: The Symbiosis of Antique Philosophy and Religion.”
- Volker Drecoll (Tübingen University, Germany): “Middle Platonic elements in Augustine’s De Civitate 8.”
- Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (Florida State University): « Contemplative Ascent as Dance in Plotinus and Rūmī. »
- Deepa Majumdar (Purdue University): “The Enneads of Plotinus and the Bhagavadgītā: Harmony amidst Differences.”
- Rkia Elaroui Cornell (Emory University): “The Muslim Diotima? Traces of Plato’s Symposium in Sufi Narratives of Rabi’a al- ‘Adawiyya”
- Daniel Regnier (St. Thomas More College): “The Simple Soul: Plotinus and Śaṅkara on Self and Soul as Partless”
- Benjamin Gleede (Universität Tübingen): “Endorsing a cliché: On Liberty and Necessity in Christian and Neoplatonist Accounts of Creation”
- Suzanne Stern-Gillet (University of Bolton, UK): “Virtues of Selfknowledge: Aristotle, Augustine, and Siger of Brabant”
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Subject and Name Index
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