Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims /

Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims /

Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews and Muslims offers a thought-provoking exploration of the reception of Platonism among communities of faith from early Christianity to the sixteenth century, from the Byzantine East to the Latin West. Rare emphasis is placed on the importance o...

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Other Authors: Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva (Editor), Parry, Ken (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity ; 27.

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Alexandrian school.
Neoplatonism.
Philosophy, Medieval.

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Call Number: B785.F4

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Man before God: Music and Silence as Induction to Altered States of Consciousness from Plato to Clement of Alexandria /
  • Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
  • Chapter 2 Some Aspects of the Reception of the Platonic Tradition in Origen /
  • Ilaria Ramelli
  • Chapter 3 Doubts in Olympiodorus' Later Commentaries: Could Plato Be Wrong about Suicide and Metempsychosis? /
  • Harold Tarrant
  • Chapter 4 The Hermeneutics of Dionysius the Areopagite's Platonic Writing Style /
  • Dimitrios A. Vasilakis
  • Chapter 5 'Optimistic Monism': The Logocentric Neoplatonism of Maximus the Confessor /
  • Dionysios Skliris
  • Chapter 6 Damascenus Neoplatonicus: Suggestions regarding a Research Agenda for the Study of Neoplatonism in John Damascene's Oeuvre /
  • Vassilis Adrahtas
  • Chapter 7 Attitudes to Cult Images in Neoplatonism and Byzantine Christianity /
  • Ken Parry
  • Chapter 8 Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Transformation in the Thought of Michael Psellos /
  • Michael Champion
  • Chapter 9 Psellos on Achieving 'Likeness to God' and Being 'In the Image of God' /
  • Graeme Miles
  • Chapter 10 The Neoplatonism of Barlaam the Calabrian /
  • Michele Trizio
  • Chapter 11 Middleman or Man in the Middle? Plethon and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy /
  • Han Baltussen
  • Chapter 12 Trapezuntios and Bessarion on Arabic Philosophy and Science /
  • Georgios Steiris
  • Chapter 13 The Syriac Heirs of Neoplatonism /
  • John W. Watt
  • Chapter 14 The Armenian Reception of Neoplatonism /
  • Valentina Calzolari
  • Chapter 15 Providence and Fate in Ioane Petritsi's Commentary on Proclus' Elements of Theology /
  • Lela Alexidze
  • Chapter 16 The Christian Arabic (Melkite) Reception of the Neoplatonic Doctrine of Evil /
  • Peter Tarras
  • Chapter 17 Reading Theophrastus' Mind: Marsilio Ficino's Reception of Priscian of Lydia /
  • Anna Corrias
  • Chapter 18 Michael of Ephesus and Robert Grosseteste: Neoplatonic Tradition and Epistemological Rupture /
  • Georgios Arabatzis
  • Chapter 19 Proclus' Reception in the Sixteenth Century: Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements /
  • Jesús de Garay
  • Chapter 20 Jewish Neoplatonism /
  • Adam Afterman and Omer Michaelis
  • Chapter 21 Mysticism in the Islamicate World: The Question of Neoplatonic Influence in Sufi Thought /
  • Milad Milani
  • Indexes.