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Book SynopsisReading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of the history of Neoplatonism from the 9th to the 16th century. This third volume gathers contributions on key concepts of the Platonic tradition (Proclus, Plotinus, Porphyry or Sallustius) inherited and reinterpreted by Arabic (e.g. Avicenna, the Book of Causes), Byzantine (e.g. Maximus the Confessor, Ioane Petritsi) and Latin authors (e.g. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Berthold of Moosburg, Marsilio Ficino etc.). Two major themes are presently studied: causality (in respect to the One, the henads, the self-constituted substances and the first being) and the noetic triad (being-life-intellect).
Table of ContentsNotes On Causes and the Noetic Triad Dragos Calma Part 1 Causes Section 1 One and Participation 1 Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Platonic Dialectics Jan Opsomer 2 Substantia stans per essentiam suam: Proclus et l’ auteur du De causis sur les êtres qui se constituent eux-mêmes Carlos Steel 3 Regards croisés sur la cause première: Plotin, Porphyre, Victorinus, Saloustios, Proclus Anca Vasiliu 4 L’ Être premier—entre Proclus et Denys l’ Aréopagite Marilena Vlad 5 Proclus’ Reception in Maximus the Confessor, Mediated through John Philoponus and Dionysius the Ps.-Areopagite: A Case Study of Ambiguum 7 Jonathan Greig 6 Henads as Divine Images: The Epistemological and Ontological Significance of Inner Light and Creation of a New Subjectivity in Ioane Petritsi’s Metaphysics Levan Gigineishvili 7 Cause and Effect in Petritsi’s Commentary on Proclus’ Elements of Theology Lela Alexidze 8 Virtus and Causae Primordiales in Berthold’s Expositio Ezequiel Ludueña Section 2 Causality and Free Will 9 Causalité et pouvoir: autour des traces du Liber de causis dans la Métaphysique d’ Avicenne Olga Lizzini 10 God’s Existence and Essence: The Liber de causis and School Discussions in the Metaphysics of Avicenna Amos Bertolacci 11 The Causal Efficacy of Nature in the Neoplatonica Arabica Bethany Somma 12 Thomas d’ Aquin, l’ étiologie proclusienne, et la théorie du concours de Dieu à la causalité naturelle Jean-Luc Solère 13 Deux modèles de causalité, deux théories de la liberté: À propos de deux interprétations de la proposition I du Livre des causes Olivier Boulnois 14 “Agir par son être-même”: La question de la liberté créatrice dans le Liber de causis et sa réception chez Albert le Grand Isabelle Moulin Part 2 The Noetic Triad: Being, Life, Intellect 15 The Early History of the Noetic Triad John Dillon 16 Some Overlooked Sources of the Elements of Theology: The Noetic Triad, Epistrophé, Apokatastasis, Bodies, God, “All in All” and the Possible Reception of Origenian Themes Ilaria Ramelli 17 Le chapitre XI[XII] du Liber de causis commenté par Albert le Grand: l’ unité de la cause et de son effet comme immanence réciproque Julie Casteigt 18 L’ exemple de la triade esse, vivum, homo dans les commentaires latins du XIIIe siècle au Liber de causis, entre réalisme des universaux et pluralité des formes substantielles Julie Brumberg-Chaumont 19 Self-Knowledge and Reditio Completa: Two Mid-13th-Century Interpretations of the Liber de causis, prop. XIV(XV) (Roger Bacon, Ps-Henry of Ghent) Thérèse Scarpelli Cory 20 Marsilio Ficino on The Triad Being-Life-Intellect and the Demiurge: Renaissance Reappraisals of Late Ancient Philosophical and Theological Debates Denis J.-J. Robichaud Index
