The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented to an international conference in July 1995 at Maynooth, Ireland, which was organised to celebrate the bicentenary of the founding of St Patrick's College, Maynooth. The general title of the conference was "Mysticism, Rationalism and Empiricism in the Neoplatonic Tradition".

"The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism" was edited by John Cleary.

Yes, "The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism" is part of the "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1" series. It's book 24 in the series.

In association with The De Wulf-Mansion Centre.

About the Series

The series' focus lies primarily on the continuity and thematic transitions between ancient, medieval and renaissance thought, but also includes volumes on specific topics related to any of those periods. ‘Philosophy' is understood broadly to include metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, epistemology and philosophy of mind, and philosophical theology. Since the series is particularly devoted to making available Latin and Greek source texts, we welcome critical text editions as well as contributions that are based on philological scrutiny of those texts, without losing sight of their philosophical importance.

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1 aims to publish at least two volumes a year and accepts monographs as well as thematically coherent edited volumes in English (without excluding the possibility of French, German, or Italian contributions to edited volumes). Manuscripts should be 80.000 to 120.000 words in length.

Readership

Researchers and graduate students in ancient, medieval and renaissance philosophy, in classics and in history.

Editorial Coordinator

Russell Friedman, KU Leuven, Belgium

Editorial Board

Pieter Beullens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Lisa Devriese, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pieter d'Hoine, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jenny Pelletier, KU Leuven, Belgium
Andrea Robiglio, KU Leuven, Belgium
Carlos Steel, KU Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Van Riel, KU Leuven, Belgium

Advisory Board

Brad Inwood, Yale Universityo, USA
Jill Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London, United Kingdom
John Marenbon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lodi Nauta, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Timothy Noone (†) , The Catholic University of America, USA
Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto, Canada,
Pasquale Porro, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Geert Roskam, KU Leuven, Belgium

Proposals

Proposals and enquiries can be sent to  editorial coordinator Russell L. Friedman. Please send a preliminary abstract (3-4 pp.) and a short bio. Upon approval of this abstract, the full manuscript will be submitted to international peer review.

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Links & Resources

Introduction
John J. Cleary

1. Neoplatonic Theology

Dieu est-il tout-puissant? Alexandre d'Aphrodise, Origène le chrétien, Plotin
Jean Pépin

Theology in Origen and Plotinus
Padraig O'Cleirigh

Prophyry and Pagan Religious Practice
Andrew Smith

2. Plato and Plotinus

Immortal and Necessary Being in Plato and in Plotinus
Denis O'Brien

L'exegese Plotinienne des 'MEGISTA GENE' du Sophiste de Platon
María Isabel Santa Cruz

Plotinus Meets the Third Man
David P. Hunt

3. Plotinian nous

Individual Consciousness in Neoplatonism
Gerard Verbeke

Introspection, Self-Reflexivity, and the Essence of Thinking according to Plotinus
Lloyd P. Gerson

4. Plotinian Mysticism

Mysticism and Individuality: A Plotinian Paradox
Gabriela Roxana Carone

The Mystical Journeys of Plotinus and Gregory of Nyssa
Deirdre Carabine

5. Plotinian Eudaimonism

Plotinus and Aristotle on the Good Life
Frederic M. Schroeder

Plotinus and the Alienation of the Soul
Gary Gurtler

6. The Neoplatonic School

The Circle Simile in the Platonic Curriculum of Albinus
Burhard Reis

The Psychology of Plotinus and Later Platonism
Henry J. Blumenthal

7. Late Neoplatonic Epistemology

Breathing Thought: Proclus on the Innate Knowledge of the Soul
Carlos Steel

The school of Ammonius on Logoi in The Human Intellect
Elias Tempelis

8. Late Academic Platonism

On Proclus' Comparison of Aristotelian and Parmenidean Logic
Dino Buzzetti

Aristotle's Fourteenth Aporia and the Three Dimensions in Later Neoplatonism
Frans A.J. de Haas

Damascius on Procession and Return
John Dillon

9. Patristic and Medieval Neoplatonism

Does Augustinian Memoria depend on Plotinus?
James McEvoy

The Mysticism of Number in the Medieval Period before Eriugena
Thomas O'Loughlin

10. Arabic and Jewish Neoplatonism

Divine and Human Knowledge in the Plotiniana Arabica
Christina D'Ancona

The Complementarity of Reason and Mysticism in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ)
Thomas E. Gaskill

Maimonides and Neo-Platonism
Kenneth Seeskin

11. The Renaissance of Neoplatonism

Francis Bacon's Instauratio and Renaissance Neoplatonism
Stephen A. McKnight

Neoplatonism and the Origin of the Older Modern Philosophy
James A. Doull

12. Modern Neoplatonists

Emerson's Mystical Empiricism
Russell B. Goodman

The Christian Platonism of A.H. Armstrong and Synesius of Cyrene
Jay Bregman

Index locorum
Index of authors
Index of subjects