The Structure of Being and the Search for the Good
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The Structure of Being and the Search for the Good

Essays on Ancient and Early Medieval Platonism

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  2. English
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The Structure of Being and the Search for the Good

Essays on Ancient and Early Medieval Platonism

About this book

The essays in this book discuss a number of the central metaphysical and ethical themes that engaged the minds of Platonist philosophers during late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. One particular theme is that of the structure of reality, with the associated questions of the relations between soul and body and between intelligible and sensible reality, and the existence of mathematical objects. Other topics relate to evil and beauty, political life and its purpose, the philosophical search for the absolute Good, and how one can speak about this Absolute and have union with it. Going from Plato to Eriugena, the ways in which Platonist philosophers understood and developed these themes are analysed and compared.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040230947
Edition
0
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Half Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. I Faut-il philosopher? Le voyage d'une question dans le monde antique
  10. II The Chain of Being in the Light of Recent Work on Platonic Hierarchies
  11. III Man as Political Animal: on the Relation between Plato and Aristotle
  12. IV Remarks on Dualism and the Definition of Soul in Aristotle's De anima
  13. V Being in Numenius and Plotinus: Some Points of Comparison
  14. VI The Problem of Omnipresence in Plotinus Ennead VI, 4–5: A Reply
  15. VII Gnosticism and the Making of the World in Plotinus
  16. VIII Plotinus on How Soul acts on Body
  17. IX Evil in Plotinus (Enn. I, 8)
  18. X Textes de Plotin sur la beauté: initiation et remarques
  19. XI Le problĂšme du discours sur l'indicible chez Plotin
  20. XII The Freedom of the One
  21. XIII A propos d'un tĂ©moignage sur l'expĂ©rience mystique de Plotin (Enn. IV 8[6], 1, 1–11)
  22. XIV Le problÚme de la métaphysique dans l'antiquité tardive
  23. XV La Question de l'ĂȘtre et du non-ĂȘtre des objets mathĂ©matiques chez Plotin et Jamblique
  24. XVI Proclus' First Prologue to Euclid: The Problem of its Major Source
  25. XVII Vie politique et divinisation dans la philosophie néoplatonicienne
  26. XVIII Aspects of Political Philosophy in Iamblichus
  27. XIX ÉvĂȘques et philosophes-rois: philosophie politique neoplatonicienne chez le Pseudo-Denys
  28. XX L'lnvestigation et les investigateurs dans le De divisione naturae de Jean Scot ErigĂšne
  29. XXI The Concept of Natura in John Scottus Eriugena (De divisione naturae Book I)
  30. XXII The Problem of Speaking about God in John Scottus Eriugena
  31. XXIII The Metaphysical Use of Mathematical Concepts in Eriugena
  32. XXIV Eriugena and Aquinas on the Beatific Vision
  33. Addenda and Corrigenda
  34. Index