Autore	Lloyd A. C (Antony C.)
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford, : Clarendon Press
Descrizione fisica	ix, 198 p
Disciplina	186/.4
Soggetto topico	Neoplatonism Philosophy, Ancient
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454691403321

Autore	Lloyd A. C (Antony C.)
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford, : Clarendon Press
Descrizione fisica	ix, 198 p
Disciplina	186/.4
Soggetto topico	Neoplatonism Philosophy, Ancient
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910972646903321

Autore	Tzamalikos P. <1951->
Edizione	[2 Bde.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (1,814 pages)
Disciplina	182/.8
Collana	Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte
Soggetto topico	Neoplatonism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-042010-4 3-11-042019-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Principles -- Chapter 2. A religious outcast criticized -- Chapter 3. Aristotle as a critic -- Chapter 4. A twofold creation -- Chapter 5. The will of Mind -- Chapter 6. Potentiality -- Chapter 7. Simplicius’ reply to Aristotle -- Conclusion of Part I: Truth and Becoming in Anaxagoras -- Chapter 8. Plato and Aristotle -- Chapter 9. The Stoics -- Chapter 10. The Neoplatonists -- Chapter 11. Origen, a pupil of Anaxagoras -- Chapter 12. Divine intellects: from Aristotle to Late Antiquity -- Chapter 13. Theory of the soul: from Anaxagoras to Late Antiquity -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. The wondrous Greek travels to the East -- Appendix II. Origen and the homoousion. A critical edition of two unpublished texts -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms -- Index of Greek Terms -- Index of Modern Names
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910466108503321

Autore	Burns Dylan M
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (342 p.)
Disciplina	299/.932
Collana	Divinations : Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Soggetto topico	Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism Gnostic literature - History and criticism Gnosticism Neoplatonism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8122-0922-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Culture Wars -- 2. Plotinus Against His Gnostic Friends -- 3. Other Ways of Writing -- 4. The Descent -- 5. The Ascent -- 6. The Crown -- 7. Between Judaism, Christianity, and Neoplatonism -- Appendix: Reading Porphyry on the Gnostic Heretics and Their Apocalypses -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464448503321

Autore	Stang Charles M. <1974->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (vi, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	230.14092
Collana	Oxford early Christian studies
Soggetto topico	Neoplatonism Christianity - Philosophy - History - To 1500
ISBN	9780191634352 0191634352 9780199640423 0199640424
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction--1. Ancient and Modern Readers of the Corpus Dionysiacum: Pseudonymity and Paul --2. Pseudonymous Writing in the Late Antique Christian East --3. "I rejoice to see your order": Paul and the Dionysian Hierarchies --4. "To an Unknown God": Paul and Mystical Union --5. "No Longer I": The Apophatic Anthropology of Dionysius the Areopagite --Conclusion: The Pseudonym, Revisited; Bibliography --Index Locorum --General Index.
Record Nr.	UNISA-996207183003316