Chaucer's Neoplatonism
Chaucer's Neoplatonism

Author: John M. Hill

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2017-12-20

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1498561942

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Although centrally focused on varieties of friendship and love in Troilus and Criseyde, the discussion in Chaucer’s Neoplatonism includes the dream visions as well as aspects of The Canterbury Tales. It lays out Chaucer’s Boethian-inspired, cognitive approach, drawn mainly from Book V of the Consolatio, to whatever subject he treats. Far from courting skepticism, Chaucer gathers many variants of such matters as love, friendship, and community within a meditative mode that assess better and worse instances. He does so to illuminate a fuller sense of the forms that respectively underlie particular manifestations of love, joy, friendship or community. That process is both cognitive and aesthetic in that beauty and truth appear more fully as one assess both better and worse instances of an idea or of an experience. Chapters on the dream visions establish Chaucer’s reasonable belief in the truth-value of fictions, however grounded on exaggerated and mixed tidings of truth and falsehood. Chapters on Troilus and Criseyde examine relationships between the main characters given the place of noble friendship within an initially promising but then tragic love story. The drama of those relationships become Chaucer’s major claim to fame before the tales of Canterbury, where, for meditative purposes, he gathers various gestures toward community among the dramatically interacting pilgrims, while also exploring the dynamics of reconciliation.

From Platonism to Neoplatonism
From Platonism to Neoplatonism

Author: Philip Merlan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9401534330

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The first edition of this book appeared in 1953; the second, revised and enlarged, in 1960. The present, third edition is essentially a reprint of the second, except for the correction of a few misprints and the following remarks, which refer to some recent publications* and replace the brief preface to the second edition. Neither Eudemus nor Theophrastus, so I said (p. 208f.) knew a branch of theoretical philosophy the object of which would be something called OV ~ OV and which branch would be distinct from theology. And there is no sign that they found such a branch (corresponding to what was later called metaphysica generalis) in Aristotle. To the names of Eudemus and Theophrastus we now can add that of Nicholas of Damascus. In 1965 H.J. Drossaart Lulofs published: Nicolaus Damascenus On the Philosophy oj Aristotle (Leiden: Brill), i. e. fragments of his 1tEpt TIj.

Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought
Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought

Author: R. Baine Harris

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780791452776

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Leading scholars relate Neoplatonism to contemporary social theory, aesthetics, and spirituality.

Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought
Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought

Author: R. Baine Harris

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2001-11-20

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0791489051

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Significant twentieth-century thinkers offer views of Neoplatonism as having relevance to contemporary life and thought. Specifically discussed is how Neoplatonism relates to contemporary science and contemporary philosophy, including metaphysics and environmental thought. Contributors include Jay Bregman, John Charles Cooper, Christos Evangeliou, David Fideler, Lewis S. Ford, F.-P. Hager, Curtis L. Hancock, Kelly Parker, R. Baine Harris, Robert Meredith Helm, Paul G. Kuntz, Peter Manchester, Scott A. Olsen, Kelly Parker, David Rodier, Joseph Sen, Huston Smith, Atsushi Sumi, and Michael F. Wagner.

The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism
The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism

Author: Jonathan Greig

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9004439099

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In The First Principle, Jonathan Greig offers a new examination of the Neoplatonic notion of the One and the respective causal frameworks behind the One in the two late Neoplatonists, Proclus and Damascius (5th–6th centuries A.D.).

Reading Plotinus
Reading Plotinus

Author: Kevin Corrigan

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781557532343

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Plotinus was one of the most influential philosophers of the early Christian world, whose life was dedicated to the care of others and whose extensive treatises were recorded and preserved by his pupil and colleague Porphyry. This book provides a guide to reading and understanding Plotinus and covers many of the topics that he contemplated.

The Significance of Neoplatonism
The Significance of Neoplatonism

Author: R. Baine Harris

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1438405901

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This is a collection of essays on the sources, interpretations, and influences of Neoplatonism.

Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato
Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato

Author: Ilsetraut Hadot

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-01-08

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9004281592

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Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato by I. Hadot deals with the Neoplatonist tendency to harmonize the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. It shows that this harmonizing tendency, born in Middle Platonism, prevailed in Neoplatonism from Porphyry and Iamblichus, where it persisted until the end of this philosophy. Hadot aims to illustrate that it is not the different schools themselves, for instance those of Athens and Alexandria, that differ from one another by the intensity of the will to harmonization, but groups of philosophers within these schools.

From Platonism to Neoplatonism
From Platonism to Neoplatonism

Author: Fr. Merlan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9401015929

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The first edition of this book appeared in 1953; the second, revised and enlarged, in 1960. The present, third edition is essentially a reprint of the second, except for the correction of a few misprints and the following remarks, which refer to some recent publications* and replace the brief preface to the second edition. Neither Eudemus nor Theophrastus, so I said (p. 208£. ) knew a branch of theoretical philosophy the object of which would be something called 0'. 1 ~ 0'. 1 andwhich branch wouldbedistinct from theology. And there is no sign that they found such a branch (corresponding to what was later called metaphysica generalis) in Aristotle. To the names of Eudemus and Theophrastus we now can add that of Nicholas of Damascus. In 1965 H. J. Drossaart Lulofs published: Nicolaus Damascenus On the Philosophy of Aristotle (Leiden: Brill), Le. fragments of his m:pr. njc; 'ApLO''t'o't'&AOUC; qJLAOO'OqJLiXC; preserved in Syriac together with an English trans lation. In these fragments we find a competent presentation of Aristotle's theoretical philosophy, in systematic form. Nicholas subdivides Aristotle's theoretical philosophy into theology, physics, and mathematics and seems to be completely unaware of any additional branch of philosophy the object of which would be 0'. 1 ~ 0'. 1 distinct from theology with its object (the divine).