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This selection of twenty-five essays by Andrew Smith is devoted to Neoplatonism and especially to Plotinus and Porphyry. It deals with Plotinus' development of the Platonic Forms, and includes a lengthy assessment of Porphyry's contribution to the Platonic tradition. The themes also embrace a number of issues that have become particularly prominent in the more recent growth of interest in these philosophers of late antiquity. For example, the importance of practical ethical activity is examined particularly in the case of Plotinus and it is argued from several perspectives that a theoretical basis for reconciling the life of contemplation with that of everyday living may be found in his metaphysics. This also involves his speculations on time and eternity as well as his observations about human consciousness. A closer examination of the role of religion, magic and myth in the life of the philosopher reveals a much richer and more nuanced appreciation of their importance than has been accorded them by an earlier generation of scholars. In particular the contribution of Iamblichus is recognised as a profound attempt to account for divine activity in the world and the first attempt to propose a solution to the problems involved in presenting metaphysics of religious ritual.
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World HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- I Unconsciousness and quasiconsciousness in Plotinus
- II The significance of practical ethics for Plotinus
- III Action and contemplation in Plotinus
- IV Eternity and time
- V Soul and time in Plotinus
- VI Reason and experience in Plotinus
- VII Plotinus on fate and free will
- VIII Potentiality and the problem of plurality in the intelligible world
- IX Dunamis in Plotinus and Porphyry
- X Plotinus and the myth of love
- XI The object of perception in Plotinus
- XII Plotinus on ideas between Plato and Aristotle
- XIII The Neoplatonic Socrates
- XIV Porphyrian studies since 1913
- XV Porphyry: scope for a reassessment
- XVI A Porphyrian treatise against Aristotle?
- XVII Did Porphyry reject the transmigration of human souls into animals?
- XVIII Porphyry and pagan religious practice
- XIX Religion, magic and theurgy in Porphyry
- XX Porphyry and the Platonic theology
- XXI More Neoplatonic ethics
- XXII Hypostasis and hyparxis in Porphyry
- XXIII Philosophical objections to Christianity on the eve of the Great Persecution
- XXIV Iamblichus’ views on the relationship of philosophy to religion in De Mysteriis
- XXV Further thoughts on Iamblichus as the first philosopher of religion
- Index locorum
- General index
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