This book presents a series of Dr. Blumenthal's studies on the history of Neoplatonism, from its founder Plotinus to the end of Classical Antiquity, relating especially to the Neoplatonists' doctrines about the soul. The work falls into two parts. The first deals with Plotinus and considers the soul both as part of the structure of the universe and in its capacity as the basis of the individual's vital and cognitive functions. The second part is concerned with the later history of Neoplatonism, including its end. Its main focus is the investigation of how Neoplatonic psychology was modified and developed by later philosophers, in particular the commentators on Aristotle, and used as the starting point for their Platonizing interpretations of his philosophy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Publisher's Note
- Preface
- Chapter I: Platonism in late antiquity
- Chapter II: Nous and soul in Plotinus : some problems of demarcation
- Chapter III: Soul, world-soul and individual soul in Plotinus
- Chapter IV: Did Plotinus believe in ideas of individuals?
- Chapter V: Plotinus' psychology: Aristotle in the service of Platonism
- Chapter VI: Plotinus, Enneads V 3 [49]. 3–4
- Chapter VII: Plotinus' adaption of Aristotle's psychology: sensation, imagination and memory
- Chapter VIII: Some problems about body and soul in later Pagan Neoplatonism: do they follow a pattern?
- Chapter IX: Plotinus and Proclus on the criterion of truth
- Chapter X: Plotinus in later Platonism
- Chapter XI: From Ku-ru-so-wo-ko to θEOƳPΓOΣ: word to ritual
- Chapter XII: Plutarch's exposition of the De Anima and the psychology of Proclus
- Chapter XIII: Marinus' life of Proclus: Neoplatonist biography
- Chapter XIV: Alexander of Aphrodisias in the later Greek commentaries on Aristotle's De Anima
- Chapter XV: John Philoponus and Stephanus of Alexandria: two Neoplatonic Christian commentaries on Aristotle?
- Chapter XVI: Simplicius(?) on the first book of Aristotle's De Anima
- Chapter XVII: Soul vehicles in Simplicius
- Chapter XVIII: 529 and its sequel: what happened to the Academy?
- Index
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