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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.
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