Soul matters : Plato and Platonists on the nature of the soul / edited by Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Danielle A. Layne, and Crystal Addey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finamore, John F., 1951- honouree.

Ahbel-Rappe, Sara, 1960- editor.

Layne, Danielle A., editor.

Addey, Crystal, editor.

Series:

Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; no. 22.

Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; number 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soul--Philosophy--Congresses.

Soul.

Plato--Congresses.

Plato.

Platonists--Congresses.

Platonists.

Soul--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xxi, 550 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : SBL Press, [2023]

Summary:

Platonic discourses concerning the soul are incrdibly rich and multitiered. Plato's own diverse and disparate arguments and images offer competing accounts of how we are to understand the nature of the soul. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that the accounts of Platonists who engage Plato's dialogues are often riddled with questions. This volume takes up the theories of well-known philosophers and theologians, including Plato, Plotinus, Proclus, the emperor Julian, and Origen, as well as lesser-known but equally important figures in a collection of essays on transmigration of the soul, the nature of the Platonist enlightenment experience, soul and gender, pagan ritual practices, Christian and pagan differences about the soul, mental health and illness, and many other topics. --Back cover.

Contents:

Foreword / Suzanne Stern-Gillet

Introduction / Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Part 1. Madness, Irrationality, and Healing

Irrationality in the Platonic tradition / Lloyd P. Gerson

Plato on the manic soul / Suzanne Stern-Gillet

Plato and Plotinus on healing: Why does the art of medicine matter? / Svetla Slaveva-Griffin

Intellect sober and intellect drunk: Reflections on the Plotinian ascent narrative / John Dillon

Part 2. Ontologies and Epistemologies

Soul in Plato / Luc Brisson

Is the soul a form? The status of the soul in the final argument of the Phaedo, again / Van Tu

Against the stereotype of abstract knowledge in Plato: Scientific perception or sharp seeing in the middle and late dialogues / Kevin Corrigan

Of orioles, owls, and aviaries: Rethinking the problem of other minds / Robert Berchman

Initial stages on the ladder of ascent to the intelligible world: The metempsychotic aeons in Zostrianos and related Sethian literature / John D. Turner

Part 3. Hermeneutics and Methodologies

The indefinite Dyad and the Platonic equality of the male and female ruling principles / Danielle A. Layne

Soul in the earliest multilevel interpretations of the Parmenides / Harold Tarrant

Apuleius's Platonic laboratory / Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Proclus interprets Hesiod: The procline philosophy of the soul / John F. Finamore

Part 4. Ritual Contexts, Inspiration, and Embodied Practices

Julian and Sallust on the ascent of the soul and theurgy / Crystal Addey and Jay Bregman

The optimal times for incarnation: Let me count the ways / Dirk Baltzly and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum

Prophets and poets: Plato and the daimonic nature of poetry / Elizabeth Hill

Part 5. Christian and Pagan Perspectives

The soul in Bardaisan, Origen, and Evagrius: Between unfolding and subsumption / Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

Proclus, Hermias, and Cyril of Alexandria on the embodied soul / Sara Klitenic Wear

Christian and pagan neoplatonism / Gregory Shaw.

Notes:

"The present volume is the outcome of a conference organized by Sara Ahbel-Rappe at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) to celebrate the impending retirement of John Finamore as professor of classics and chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Iowa"--Page ix.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1628375485

9781628375480

1628374934

9781628374933

OCLC:

1402020587