The anatomy of neoplatonism / A.C. Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloyd, A. C. (Antony C.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoplatonism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 198 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This discussion ranges over metaphysics, epistemology, logic and language, and reveals the fundamental structure of Neoplatonist thought, showing that while Neoplatonism is not a modern philosophy, it is philosophy in the modern sense.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1. Attitudes To Logic

Commentaries and scholia

The Neoplatonic curriculum

Conventional features of lectures

The dialectic methods and the meaning of 'analysis'

Proclus' comparison of Aristotelian and Parmenidean logic

The Alexandrian conception of logic

The criterion of validity

Logical form

How much did Neoplatonism influence the logical commentaries?

A comment on consistency and originality

2. Porphyrian Semantics

Imposition of names

'Genus' and 'species'

Use and mention?

Singular terms, individuals, and bundles of properties

Predication

Predicates as concepts

Porphyry's two programmes

When is a proposition one proposition?

How can a proper name be ambiguous?

Which animal is predicated?

The 'unallocated': Transcendent genus or concept? Multiplication of the universal

The myth of a Neoplatonic nominalism

The Aristotelianism of Byzantine Neoplatonists

3. Quasi-Genera and the Collapse Of Substance and Attribute

P-series as quasi-genera

How can they have a deductive logic? First thesis

Second thesis

Third thesis: Plotinian and Proclan versions

Plotinus' radical criticism of substance and attribute

Two structures, two levels of thought?

4. Procession and Decline

Emanation as external activity: The model in Aristotle's physics

The Proclan rule

Defective reception as weakness of the form. Proclus' aversion from dualism

How monads descend. How transcendental triads function

Matter replaced by composition of causes?

Decline of monad as distance from the One. Fundamental equations of force, value, and unity

5. The Spiritual Circuit

Only a particular soul can ascend

Personal experience integral to Neoplatonism

Ambiguities of 'reversion'

Philosophical interpretations of the spiritual circuit.

Appearance and reality

6. The Limits Of Knowledge

Knowledge as a P-series

The process of perception

Natural science. Canons

Sensation as obscure thinking

Iamblichus' principle of knowing. Future contingents

How henads, not intellects, know particulars. The accidental

7. Mysticism and Metaphysics

Pure Intellect in Plotinus

Pure Intellect and Henads in Proclus

The loving intellect = pre-intellect

A constructive interpretation of the motionless movement

What is presupposed by thought and existence

What is so valuable about knowledge?

How consciousness creates

Bibliography

Index Locorum

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General Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-05194-6

9786612051944

0-19-151962-6

OCLC:

1024268439