Women and the Female in Neoplatonism /

Women and the Female in Neoplatonism /

Sosipatra, Hypatia, Macrina: some of the most famous female philosophers of antiquity were connected to Neoplatonism. But what does it mean to be a woman philosopher in late antiquity? How is the inclusive nature of the Neoplatonic schools connected to their ethical, political, and metaphysical idea...

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Other Authors: Schultz, Jana (Editor), Wilberding, James (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; 30.

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Philosophy, Medieval.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy.

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Call Number: B2936.E5

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction /
  • Jana Schultz and James Wilberding
  • Part 1 The Historical Presence of Women in Neoplatonic Schools
  • 1 Diotima, Sosipatra and Hypatia: Methodological Reflections on the Study of Female Philosophers in the Platonic Tradition /
  • Crystal Addey
  • Part 2 The Status of Women in Neoplatonic Socio-political Theory
  • 2 Women in Plotinus /
  • James Wilberding
  • 3 Marcella and Porphyry /
  • Luc Brisson
  • 4 On the Equality of Women and Men in Late Antique Platonism: Proclus, Julian and Philip the Philosopher /
  • Dominic O'Meara
  • 5 Theodorus of Asine on the Equality of the Sexes: Traces of a Rhetorical Trope in the Fourth Century CE /
  • John Dillon
  • 6 The Myth of Er and Female Guardians in Proclus' Republic Commentary /
  • Dirk Baltzly
  • 7 Damascius on the Virtue of Women and Their Relation to Men /
  • Jana Schultz
  • Part 3 Female Principles in Neoplatonic Metaphysics and Science
  • 8 Femininity in Porphyry's On Abstinence /
  • Miira Tuominen
  • 9 A Match Made in Heaven: The Metaphysics of Aphrodite in Neoplatonic Thinkers /
  • Marije Martijn
  • 10 Neoplatonic Motives in Emperor Julian's Hymn to the Mother of the Gods /
  • Christoph Helmig
  • 11 Otherwise Than the Father: Night and the Maternal Causes in Proclus' Theological Metaphysics /
  • Danielle Layne
  • Part 4 A Concluding Look at Two Christian Neoplatonists
  • 12 Macrina's Method: Reason and Reasoning in Gregory of Nyssa's On Soul and Resurrection /
  • Peter Adamson
  • 13 What Did Michael Psellos Say about Women in the 11th Century AD ? /
  • Denis Walter
  • Index Locorum
  • Index of Names and Subjects.