A collection of scholarly papers on the techniques used by late antique philosophers to discover truth. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; P.Vassilopoulou - PART I: RITUALS, RELIGION, AND REALITY - Porphyry andthe Debate over Traditional Religious Practices; A.Busine - St John in Ameliusb Seminar; J.Dillon - Eternal Time and Temporal Expansion: Proclusb Golden Ratio; E.F.Kutash - Having Sex with the One: Erotic Mysticism in Plotinus and the Problem of Metaphor; Z.Mazur - PART II: CROSSING BOUNDARIES - Ibn T*Ufayl and the Wisdom of the East: On Apprehending the Divine; T.Kukkonen - Plotinus, Porphyry, and India: A Re-Examination; J.Lacrosse - Animation of Statues in Ancient Civilizations and Neoplatonism; A.Uzdavinys - PART III: ART AND POETRY - Platonists and the Teaching of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity; M.Heath - Proclusb s Notion of Poetry; O.Kuisma - The Homeric Tradition in Ammonius and Asclepius; C-P.Manolea - PART IV: LATER INFLUENCES - Nous and Geist: Self-Identity and Methodological Solipsism in Plotinus and Hegel; R.M.Berchman - Plotinus, Leibniz, and Berkeley on Determinism; D.Bertini - Proclus Americanus; J.Bregman - Ecologyb s Future Debt to Plotinus and Neoplatonism; K.Corrigan - Heathen Martyrs or Romish Idolaters: Socrates and Plato in Eighteenth-Century England; C.Poster - Conclusion; S.Clark - Glossary - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-52742-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha Publicación: 13/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés