Mongorukoku ni okeru 20 seiki (2) : Shakai shugi no tatakatta hitobito no shogen / Yuki Konagaya

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00305159
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: 366 p. ; 26 cm
• ISBN: 978-49-01-90650-0
• Edizione: [Osaka : Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan]
• Descrizione fisica: Altro front. : The twentieth century in Mongolia (2)
• Classificazione: MON V B
• Soggetti: MONGOLIA - POLITICA - PERIODO COMUNISTA; ETNOLOGIA - MUSEI
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Giapponese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The anatomy of neoplatonism / / A.C. Lloyd

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972646903321
• Autore: Lloyd A. C (Antony C.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 198 p
• Disciplina: 186/.4
• Soggetti: Neoplatonism; Philosophy, Ancient
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-189) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Attitudes To Logic -- Commentaries and scholia -- The Neoplatonic curriculum -- Conventional features of ; lectures -- The dialectic methods and the meaning of 'analysis' -- Proclus' comparison of Aristotelian and Parmenidean logic -- The Alexandrian conception of logic -- The criterion of validity -- Logical form -- How much did Neoplatonism influence the logical commentaries? -- A comment on consistency and originality -- 2. Porphyrian Semantics -- Imposition of names -- 'Genus' and 'species' -- Use and mention? -- Singular terms, individuals, and bundles of properties -- Predication -- Predicates as concepts -- Porphyry's two programmes -- When is a proposition one proposition? -- How can a proper name be ambiguous? -- Which animal is predicated? -- The 'unallocated': Transcendent genus or concept? Multiplication of the universal -- The myth of a Neoplatonic nominalism -- The Aristotelianism of Byzantine Neoplatonists -- 3. Quasi-Genera and the Collapse Of Substance and Attribute -- P-series as quasi-genera -- How can they have a deductive logic? First thesis -- Second thesis -- Third thesis: Plotinian and Proclan versions -- Plotinus' radical criticism of substance and attribute -- Two structures, two levels of thought? -- 4. Procession and Decline -- Emanation as external activity: The model in Aristotle's physics -- The Proclan rule -- Defective reception as weakness of the form. Proclus' aversion from dualism -- How monads descend. How transcendental triads function -- Matter replaced by composition of causes? -- Decline of monad as distance from the One. Fundamental equations of force, value, and unity -- 5. The Spiritual Circuit -- Only a particular soul can ascend -- Personal experience integral to Neoplatonism -- Ambiguities of 'reversion' -- Philosophical interpretations of the spiritual circuit.; Appearance and reality -- 6. The Limits Of Knowledge -- Knowledge as a P-series -- The process of perception -- Natural science. Canons -- Sensation as obscure thinking -- Iamblichus' principle of knowing. Future contingents -- How henads, not intellects, know particulars. The accidental -- 7. Mysticism and Metaphysics -- Pure Intellect in Plotinus -- Pure Intellect and Henads in Proclus -- The loving intellect = pre-intellect -- A constructive interpretation of the motionless movement -- What is presupposed by thought and existence -- What is so valuable about knowledge? -- How consciousness creates -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- A -- B -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- General Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Anatomy of Neoplatonism was the crowning achievement of A. C. Lloyd, the distinguished scholar of late ancient philosophy. He offers a rich and authoritative study of this school of thought, which was highly influential not only on subsequent philosophy but also on Christian theology. His discussion ranges over metaphysics, epistemology, lo.