Titlebook: Late Antique Epistemology; Other Ways to Truth Panayiota Vassilopoulou,Stephen R. L. Clark Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macm

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Proclus’ Notion of Poetry, I will discuss his views from the point of view of modemn aesthetics. From the historical point of view aesthetics has usually been divided into two principal domains — the philosophy of beauty and the philosophy of art. My focus is on the latter domain, the philosophy of art, though for the sake

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The Homeric Tradition in Ammonius and Asclepiushe works of Homer provide our earliest direct insights into the religious thought of the Greeks,. and he was regarded not only as the best poet, but often also as a theologian. The Alexandrian commentators Ammonius and Asclepius are only two of the many Neoplatonic philosophers who made use of the a

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Nous and Geist: Self-Identity and Methodological Solipsism in Plotinus and Hegele Plotinus and Hegel to construct a notion of self-identity in which the individual self or mind can be ultimately identified with a supra-personal identity or mind. To attain this goal, Plotinus and Hegel employ the presupposition of methodological solipsism not as a strategy that restricts the val

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Proclus Americanusts in the translations of Thomas Taylor, a Neoplatonic revivalist and enthusiast. Taylor’s work suggests that he was, metaphorically at least, a ‘reincarnation’ of Proclus. His translations of . Greek philosophers evoke the Greek style of Proclus transliterated into English, as it were. New England

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Ecology’s Future Debt to Plotinus and Neoplatonism assumption of our own times is that novelty and usefulness are the preserve of ‘science’, to be judged finally by the standard of a technological progress that supersedes everything older than yesterday evening. Yet this is plainly false; for first, there is no such entity as ‘science’, but many di

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Eternal Time and Temporal Expansion: Proclus’ Golden Ratio religions’.. Dodds expresses similar concerns when he finds the hypostatizing of Time and Eternity as substantive principles an ‘unfortunate development’ compared to what he considers Plotinus’ more sophisticated account of time as the activity of Soul (III.7.11–12).. He attributes Proclus’ lapse t

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Having Sex with the One: Erotic Mysticism in Plotinus and the Problem of Metaphor injunctions) can-not be expressed in literal or discursive terms. Nevertheless, he does try to communicate the essence of the experience through the use of various images: images which ostensibly are metaphors for more abstract and ineffable states of consciousness. In this chapter I would like to

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Ibn ?ufayl and the Wisdom of the East: On Apprehending the Divine. But neither could anyone who has reached this state (.) or even come upon the verge of the delight, pleasure, and rapture keep its secrets or conceal its mysteries.. Though this rapturous experience is in principle ineffable, because infinite (., 11.4–5), Ibn ?ufayl does provide a few