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Metaphysical Patterns in Platonism

Platonic Traditions in American Thought

Platonic Inquiries

Platonic Pathways

Platonism and its Legacy

Platonic Interpretations

Plato in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times

Platonism and its Heritage

Metaphysical Patterns in Platonism

Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Times

Edited by John F Finamore and Robert M Berchman

This anthology of 18 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2005 annual conference. Contents:

The Platonic Tripartite Soul and the Platonism of Galen’s on the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato - John F. Finamore; 

Who Thought the Stars are Causes? The Astrological Doctrine Criticized by Plotinus - Marilynn Lawrence;

The Transcendence of Sophia in Plotinus’ Treatise On Intelligible Beauty - Daniele Bertini;

The Good’s Beauty is Above Beauty: Plotinus’ Argument In Ennead VI.7- Martin Achard;

Plotinus On The Being of The One - John Bussanich;

Consulting the Oracle: The Mantic Art and its Causation in Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis - Crystal Addey;

Astrology as Divination: Iamblichean Theory and its Contemporary Practice - Gregory Shaw;

The Roles of Apollo and Dionysus in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy and in the Emperor Julian’s Theology - Jay Bregman;

Augustine, Proust and the Rhetoric of Time and Creation - Burcht Pranger;

Monophysitism and the Evolution of Theological Discourse in Christian Neoplatonism - Edward Moore;

Eriugena, Emerson and the Poetics of Universal Nature - Willemien Otten;

Marsilio Ficino’s Platonism on Human-Divine Kinship and Assimilation - Mary Lenzi;

The Place of the Universe: Science and Platonism in Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus - Gina Zavota;

Mapping Knowledge and Consciousness of Being: Categories as Transcendentals in Plotinus and Hegel - Robert M. Berchman;

Critique and Rescue: On Adorno’s Diagnosis of Aristotle’s Metaphysics - Russell Ford;

Wincenty Lutoslawski Platonic Studies: Plato as an Inspiration for Polish Messianism - Tomas Mróz;

Neoplatonism in Science Past and Future - Bruce Maclennan;

The Primordial Tradition of the World’s Religions and the Reconstruction of Neoplatonic Metaphysics - Atsushi Sumi.

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Platonic Traditions in American Thought

Edited by Jay A Bregman and Melanie B Mineo

This anthology of 17 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 1999 annual conference. Contents:

Socratic Virtue as Divine Dunamis in the Meno and Theages -  Melanie A. B. Mineo

The Cyclical Argument as Plato’s Summoner -  Miriam Byrd

Enneads III.8 (30) and V.8 (31) as a Positive Dialogue with Gnostics -  Michael McArthur

Consolation Within the Limits of Philosophy Alone -  Lawrence Masek

The Neoplatonic and the Gothic: A Walk through Amiens Cathedral - Gina Zavota

The Unseen Site of Plato’s Biography - David Justin Hodge

A. Bronson Alcott’s Transcendental Neoplatonism and the Concord Summer School - Jay Bregman

Huckleberries, Thoreau, and Platonism - Daniel Dombrowski

The Platonism of Lawren Harris - Frederic M. Schroeder

Facing the Beasts: Platonic Ideas in Charles Williams’ The Place of the Lion - David Westlake

Plotinus and Kant on Beauty - Robert M. Berchman

Peirce and Plato - Kenneth Laine Ketner

Josiah Royce and Plotinus Neoplatonism - Frank Oppenheim, S. J.

Dewey as a Reconstructed Platonist - Michael Eldridge

The Affinities Between Dewey’s Pragmatism and Plotinian Philosophy - Thomas Mether

The Platonic Eliade  - Douglas Allen

Proclus’ Theories of Motion  and Twentieth-Century Physics - Emilie Kutash

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Platonic Inquiries

Selected Papers from the Thirteenth Annual Conference

of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies

Edited by Claudia D’Amico, John F Finamore and Natalia Strok

This anthology of 24 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2015 annual conference. Contents:

The Platonic origins of the Axiochus and the contribution of its author to the Socratic theme - Menahem Luz�

Rhea - Hecate. The Triple Expansion of Life - Graciela Ritacco

Plotinus, and the tripartition of the soul in Plato:  Anger as an example - Luc Brisson

Theoria, Theorema Theorein: on the Vocabulary, Style, and Content of Plotinus Enn. III. 8 [30] - Jose Baracat

The Gnostic Background of Plotinus’ Theory of Generative Contemplation - Zeke Mazur

Contemplation and form in Plotinus: continuity or overcoming Greek thought? - Fernando Martin De Blassi

The Value of the Soul's Descent - Edward Halper

Cosmic Order and Evil: The Concept of Providence in Plotinus and St. Augustine - Maurizio Di Silva

The Issue of Divine Filiality in the Commentary on the Gospel of John: Doctrinal Comparisons between Heracleon, Origen and Plotinus - Patricia Andrea Ciner

The Depth-bathos of the Gnostics and Porphyry - Juan Bautista Garcia Bazan�

Porphyry’s Extension and Restriction of Plato’s Views on Justice - Hyun Hochsman

The Pure Human Soul in Iamblichus: Divine or Angelic? - Julio Cesar Moreira

The ‘Second Trace of Life’:  Hermias and the Irrational Soul - John Finamore

Teaching and learning in Marinus - Mathilde Cambron-Goulet

Hierarchy of beings and the Neo-platonic tetrad Goodness,Being,Life, Mind in Byzantine Platonism - Dimitry Biriukov

Negligence as the Cause of the Fall of Souls in Origen and its Reinterpretation by Evagrius Ponticus - Ruben Pereto Rivas

Approach to the Sources of the Cusan Notions of Oneness, Identity, and Coincidence - Claudia D’Amico

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1431) on the Role of Faith in the Human Mind’s Return to God - Paula Pico Estrada

Marsilio Ficino’s teachings on the Platonic notion of inspiration: A brief survey for understanding the depiction of artists as divinely inspired lovers of Beauty - Juan Pablo Maggiotti�

Florentine Neoplatonism a Philosophical Movement? - Teresa Rodriguez

Newton and the Neoplatonic offensive against Cartesianism - Rodolfo E. Fazio

Thinking on Thinking: Ultimate Presuppositions in Plotinus and Leibniz - Robert Berchman

Plato in Weimar. Plato’s Ideal State and the Weimar Republic: The impossibility of creating the Perfect state - Ubaldo Villani-Lubelli�

Notes on Abandon:  excerpts from a diary of studies on the concept of Gelassenheit - Luiz Fernando Fontes-Teixeira

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Platonic Pathways

Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference

of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies

Edited by John F Finamore and Danielle A. Layne

This anthology of 16 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2016 annual conference. Contents:

The Significance of Initiation Rituals in Plato’s Meno - Michael Romero

Plato’s Timaean Psychology - John Finamore

The Creative Thinker: A New Reading of Numenius fr. 16.10-12 - Joshua Langseth

First Philosophy, Abstract Objects, and Divine Aseity: Aristotle and Plotinus - Robert M. Berchman

Plotinus on philia and its Empedoclean origin - Giannis Stamatellos

In What Sense Does the One Exist? Existence and Hypostasis in Plotinus - Michael Wiitala and Paul DiRado

A Double-Edged Sword: Porphyry on the Perils and Profits of Demonological Inquiry - Seamus O’Neill

Alienation and Divinization: Iamblichus’ Theurgic Vision - Gregory Shaw

Iamblichus’ method for creating Theurgic Sacrifice - Sam Webster

The Understanding of Time and Eternity in the polemic between Eunomius, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa - Tomasz Stępień

Tension in the soul: A Stoic/Platonic concept in Plutarch, Proclus, and Simplicius - Marilynn Lawrence

Peritrope in Damascius as the Apparatus of Speculative Ontology - Tyler Tritten

Mysticism, Apocalypticism, and Platonism - Ilaria Ramelli

Philosophy and Commentary: Evaluating Simplicius on the Presocratics - Bethany Parsons

From Embryo to Saint: a Thomist Account of Being Human - Melissa Rovig Vanden Bout

From the Neoplatonizing Christian Gnosticism of Philip K. Dick to the Neoplatonizing Hermetic Gnosticism of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Jay Bregman

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Platonism and its Legacy

Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference

of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies

Edited by John F Finamore and Tomáš Nejeschleba

This anthology of 23 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2017 annual conference. Contents:

Why the Intelligibles are not Outside the Intellect Lloyd Gerson

The Causality of the First Principle and the theory of Two Activities in Plotinus Enn. V.4 [7] 13 Andrei Timotin

"Our concern, though, is not to be out of sin, but to be god:" Assimilation to god according to Plotinus  Thomas Vidart

Eros as Soul’s ‘Eye’ in Plotinus: What does it see and not see?  Lela Alexidze

Eternity and Time in Porphyry, Sentence 44 Lenka Karfíková

Gender construction and social connections in Porphyry’s Ad Marcellam  Mathilde Cambron-Goulet

What kind of souls did Proclus discover?  Svetlana Messiats

Is self-knowledge one or multiple? Consciousness in ‘Simplicius’, Commentary on On the Soul Chiara Militello

Simplicius on De Anima 407b23-408a29 Carolina Sánchez

Neoplatonic Asclepius  Eugene Afonasin

Porphyry and the Motif of Christianity as παράνομος Ilaria Ramelli

The Reception of Xenophanes’ Philosophical Theology in Plato and the Christian Platonists Monika Recinová

Cyril of Alexandria’s Theory of the Incarnate Union Re-examined Sergey Trostyanskiy

The Erotic Magus: Ficino’s De amore as a Guide to Plato’s Symposium  Angela Hobbs

Francesco Patrizi and the Oracles of Zoroaster: The Use of Chaldean Oracles in Nova de universis philosophia Vojtěch Hladky

Ficino in the light of alchemy. Heinrich Khunrathʼs use of Ficinian metaphysics of light Martin Žemla

Johannes Kepler and His Neoplatonic Sources  Jiří Michalík

Georgius Raguseius against Astrology Luka Boršić and Ivana Skuhala Karasman

The Platonic Framework of Valeriano Magni’s Philosophy Tomáš Nejeschleba

Comenius’ Pansophia in the Context of Renaissance Neo-Platonism Jan Čížek

The Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of God Jacques Joseph

Lewis Campbell’s Studies on Plato and their Philosophical Significance Thomas Mróz

Psychological Effects of Henôsis  Bruce J. MacLennan

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Platonic Interpretations

Selected Papers from the Sixteenth Annual Conference

of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies

Edited by John F Finamore and Eric D Perl

This anthology of 11 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2018 annual conference. Contents:

Alcibiades, the Bad Lover: A Defense of the Ethics of Plato’s Erotic Philosophy Elizabeth Hill

Plato’s Cosmology: Conflicting Theories  George Latura

Origen of Alexandria: Spheres, Squares and Other Abstract Objects Robert M. Berchman

Foundations of Ecology in Plotinus’ Neoplatonism Michael F. Wagner

Iamblichus's Theory of Divination (μαντική) and Divine Inspiration: Nature and the Case of Hydromancy at Claros Andrea-Maria Lemnaru-Carrez

The Quarrel Between Porphyry and Iamblichus on the Ochema-Pneuma and the Purification of the Soul Julio Cesar Moreira

Hermias on the Vehicle of the Soul John F. Finamore

Nobility of the Complex: Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist Exposition on the Medieval Problem of Universals Khashayar Beigi

Philipp Melanchthon’s Twofold Reception of Platonism Giovanni Tortoriello

The Case of the Platonism of Origen of Alexandria in Early Modern Dutch-Arminian Theology Andrea Bianchi

The Psychodynamics of the Numbers Bruce MacLennan

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Plato in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times

Selected Papers from the Seventeenth Annual Conference

of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies

Edited by John F Finamore and Mark Nyvlt

This anthology of 8 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2019 annual conference. 

Contents:

On Evil Daemons in Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis Julio Cesar Moreira

The Personal Daimon in Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis: Astral Origins, Ritual and Divinization  Akindynos Kaniamos

Divine love, mediation and the ontological status of humans in Hierocles’ commentary on the Golden Verses Donka D. Markus

The descent of the soul in Macrobius and William of Conches L. Gregory Bloomquist

Theurgy as a Contemporary Practice: The Exampleof Jung’s Red Book Bruce MacLennan

Ruddy Stargazers: Centaurs, Philosophers, and a Life worth Living  Anne J. Mamary

Metaphysical Status of Physical Laws Alexey Burov and Lev Burov

Non-probabilistic Approach to Anthropic Principle and a Fallacy of the Fine-Tuning Argument Alexei Tsveli

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Platonism and its Heritage

Selected Papers from the Nineteenth Annual Conference

of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies

Edited by John F Finamore, Ionanna Patsioti and Giannis Stamatellos

This anthology of 11 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2022 annual conference

La homonimia del ser en la Metafísica  Bessie Alexandra Zibara Lara

Meson and Mesotes: Plotinian and Aristotelian Perspectives on the Soul's Inner Privacy and Virtue Ethics Ioanna Patsioti and Giannis Stamatellos

Lasting Light: Plotinus, Likeness and Images  Gareth Polmeer

Plotinus’ Rational Approach to Artistic Beauty Through Imagination, and its Reflection on Picasso and Einstein’s Creative Thought  Aphrodite Alexandrakis

Myth and Imagination in Olympiodorus’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Meteorology Chiara Militello

Hermetic Rebirth through the Heavenly Spheres in CH XIII Akindynos Kaniamos

Dionysius’ Application of the Role of Theurgist on the Figure of Moses  Clelia Attanasio

What are the Sources of Pseudo-Dionysius’ “Spiral of Love?” Zdenek Lenner

Aristotle in the 12th-Century Commentaries on Proclus’ Elements of Theology  Lela Alexidze

Plethon Sings the Virtues: The Organization of the Specific Virtues in the Laws  Bruce MacLennan

Sub umbra illius quem desideraverum: the Precedence of Shadow in the Work of Giordano Bruno’s De umbris idearum  Noé Badillo

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