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:

Ahbel-Rappe, Sara, 1960- editor.

Layne, Danielle A., editor.

Addey, Crystal, editor.

Series:

Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series

Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series ; v.22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soul.

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (575 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2023]

Summary:

"An international team of experts considers the question of what Plato and the Platonist tradition mean by the term soul. Essays examine 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. This essential volume includes contributions on the transmigration of the soul, the nature of the Platonist enlightenment experience, soul and gender, pagan ritual practices, Christian and pagan differences about the soul, and mental health and illness. It will be of interest to students and scholars in both classics and religion"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

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ISBN:

9781628375497

1628375493

OCLC:

1402033388