Neoplatonism and gnosticism Richard T. Wallis, editor, Jay Bregman, associate editor.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Wallis, Richard T., -1985, editor.

Bregman, Jay, editor.

International Society for Neoplatonic Studies.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Neoplatonism and Gnosticism (1984 : University of Oklahoma)

Series:

Studies in Neoplatonism ; v. 6.

Studies in Neoplatonism v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoplatonism--Congresses.

Neoplatonism.

Gnosticism--Congresses.

Gnosticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 531 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany State University of New York Press 1992.

Summary:

Neoplatonism, a development of Plato's metaphysical and religious teaching, whose best-known representatives were Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus, was the dominant philosophical school of the later Roman Empire and has been a major influence of European and Near Eastern thought and culture ever since. Yet the school's philosophy is only now coming to be studied in detail by historians of philosophy, largely because of the difficulty of the Neoplatonists' writings and the lack of a good summary exposition. This defect has been remedied in this, the first full-length study of the school by a single author to appear for over half a century. Lloyd P. Gerson's new Foreword sets that contribution in context; he also provides an up-dated Bibliography.

Contents:

Map of the eastern Mediterranean in the early centuries A.D.

FOREWORD by Lloyd P. Gerson

1. THE AIMS OF NEOPLATONISM

2. THE SOURCES OF NEOPLATONISM

3.PLOTINUS

I. Life and writings

II. The three Hypostases

III. Emanation, Logos, Sympathy

IV. The individual soul

V. Return to the One

VI. Plotinus and later Neoplatonism

4. PORPHYRY AND IAMBLICHUS

I. Neoplatonism from Plotinus to the death ofJulian

II. Anti-Christian polemic and the problem of theurgy

III. The three Hypostases in Porphyry and the

Parmenides commentator

IV. lamblichus' counter-attack; the soul and her

salvation

v. The structure oflate Neoplatonic metaphysics

VI. Textual exegesis according to Porphyry'and

lamblichus

5. THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL

I. Neoplatonism at Athens and Alexandria

II. Some basic doctrines of the Athenian School

III. Damascius and the end of the Academy

6. THE INFLUENCE OF NEOPLATONISM

ABBREVIATIONS

CITATIONS OF ANCIENT SOURCES

BIDLIOGRAPHY by Lloyd P. Gerson

INDEX

Notes:

Papers presented at the 6th international conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, entitled International Conference on Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, held at University of Oklahoma, Mar. 18-21, 1984

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781472598233

1472598237

OCLC:

44965562