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Book SynopsisHow did the ancients understand immortality? This collection of original research ranges widely from early Greek philosophy through the Platonist tradition to Augustine, and will benefit all those interested in immortality and divinity in ancient philosophy and theology.
Trade Review'… the research and insights are of a consistently high quality … the volume will find a welcome place among other scholarly treatments of immortality and divinity … Recommended.' F. A. Grabowski, Choice
Table of ContentsIntroduction A. G. Long; 1. The soul and the celestial afterlife in Greek philosophy before Plato Simon Trépanier; 2. Pythagorean immortality of the soul? Phillip Sidney Horky; 3. The philosopher's reward: Contemplation and immortality in Plato's dialogues Suzanne Obdrzalek; 4. Pre-existence, life-after-death, and atemporal beings in Plato's Phaedo Catherine Rowett; 5. The immortal and the imperishable in Aristotle, early Stoicism and Epicureanism A. G. Long; 6. Socrates and the symmetry argument James Warren; 7. Immortality in Philo of Alexandria Sami Yli-Karjanmaa; 8. Plotinus on immortality and the problem of personal identity Lloyd P. Gerson; 9. Truth and immortality in Augustine's Soliloquies and De Immortalitate Animae, Sebastian Gertz.
