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Subject(s)

• Plato—Congresses [Browse]
• Soul—Philosophy—Congresses [Browse]
• Platonists—Congresses [Browse]
• Soul—Philosophy [Browse]

Honouree

• Finamore, John F., 1951- [Browse]

Editor

• Ahbel-Rappe, Sara, 1960- [Browse]
• Layne, Danielle A. [Browse]
• Addey, Crystal [Browse]

Series

• Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; no. 22. [More in this series]
• Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; number 22 [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

• 9781628374933
• 1628375485
• 9781628375480
• 1628374934 ((paperback))

OCLC

1402020587

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