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Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of the papers presented to an international conference in July 1995 at Maynooth, Ireland, which was organised to celebrate the bicentenary of the founding of St Patrick's College, Maynooth. The general title of the conference was "Mysticism, Rationalism and Empiricism in the Neoplatonic Tradition".
Table of ContentsIntroduction
John J. Cleary
1. Neoplatonic Theology
Dieu est-il tout-puissant? Alexandre d'Aphrodise, Origène le chrétien, Plotin
Jean Pépin
Theology in Origen and Plotinus
Padraig O'Cleirigh
Prophyry and Pagan Religious Practice
Andrew Smith
2. Plato and Plotinus
Immortal and Necessary Being in Plato and in Plotinus
Denis O'Brien
L'exegese Plotinienne des 'MEGISTA GENE' du Sophiste de Platon
María Isabel Santa Cruz
Plotinus Meets the Third Man
David P. Hunt
3. Plotinian nous
Individual Consciousness in Neoplatonism
Gerard Verbeke
Introspection, Self-Reflexivity, and the Essence of Thinking according to Plotinus
Lloyd P. Gerson
4. Plotinian Mysticism
Mysticism and Individuality: A Plotinian Paradox
Gabriela Roxana Carone
The Mystical Journeys of Plotinus and Gregory of Nyssa
Deirdre Carabine
5. Plotinian Eudaimonism
Plotinus and Aristotle on the Good Life
Frederic M. Schroeder
Plotinus and the Alienation of the Soul
Gary Gurtler
6. The Neoplatonic School
The Circle Simile in the Platonic Curriculum of Albinus
Burhard Reis
The Psychology of Plotinus and Later Platonism
Henry J. Blumenthal
7. Late Neoplatonic Epistemology
Breathing Thought: Proclus on the Innate Knowledge of the Soul
Carlos Steel
The school of Ammonius on Logoi in The Human Intellect
Elias Tempelis
8. Late Academic Platonism
On Proclus' Comparison of Aristotelian and Parmenidean Logic
Dino Buzzetti
Aristotle's Fourteenth Aporia and the Three Dimensions in Later Neoplatonism
Frans A.J. de Haas
Damascius on Procession and Return
John Dillon
9. Patristic and Medieval Neoplatonism
Does Augustinian Memoria depend on Plotinus?
James McEvoy
The Mysticism of Number in the Medieval Period before Eriugena
Thomas O'Loughlin
10. Arabic and Jewish Neoplatonism
Divine and Human Knowledge in the Plotiniana Arabica
Christina D'Ancona
The Complementarity of Reason and Mysticism in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ)
Thomas E. Gaskill
Maimonides and Neo-Platonism
Kenneth Seeskin
11. The Renaissance of Neoplatonism
Francis Bacon's Instauratio and Renaissance Neoplatonism
Stephen A. McKnight
Neoplatonism and the Origin of the Older Modern Philosophy
James A. Doull
12. Modern Neoplatonists
Emerson's Mystical Empiricism
Russell B. Goodman
The Christian Platonism of A.H. Armstrong and Synesius of Cyrene
Jay Bregman
Index locorum
Index of authors
Index of subjects
