Iamblichus De Anima

Author : John Finamore
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047401425
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iamblichus' De Anima written by John Finamore and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism. His theory of the soul is at the heart of his philosophical system. For Iamblichus, the human soul is so far inferior to the divine that its salvation depends not on philosophy alone (as it did for Plotinus) but on the aid of the gods and other divinities. This edition of the fragments of Iamblichus' major work on the soul, De Anima, is accompanied by the first English translation of the work and a commentary which explains the philosophical background and Iamblichus' doctrine of the soul. Included too are excerpts from the Pseudo-Simplicius and Priscianus (also translated with commentary) that shed further light on Iamblichus' treatise.

Author : Gerd van Riel
Publisher : Presses Universitaires de Louvain - UCL
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Perspectives on Aristotle's De Anima written by Gerd van Riel and published by Presses Universitaires de Louvain - UCL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's treatise On the Soul figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle's authoritative analyses of, among others, sense perception, imagination, memory, and intellect. The ongoing debates on this difficult work continue the commentary tradition that dates back to antiquity. This volume offers a selection of essays by distinguished scholars, exploring the ancient perspectives on Aristotle's De anima, from Aristotle's earliest successors through the Aristotelian Commentators at the end of Antiquity.

Author : Harold Tarrant
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004355383
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity written by Harold Tarrant and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity demonstrates the variety of ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as author, as philosopher, and as leading intellectual light, from his own pupils until the sixth century CE.

Author : H. J. Blumenthal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801433368
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle and Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity written by H. J. Blumenthal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "H. J. Blumenthal is such an eminent scholar in the field of Neoplatonic Studies, and the scholarship exhibited by this book is so wide-ranging and impressive, that I would venture to say that this is the most important book on Neoplatonism to be published since Dominic O'Meara's Pythagoras Revived." —Steven Strange, Emory UniversityScholars have traditionally used the Aristotelian commentators as sources for lost philosophical works and occasionally also as aids to understanding Aristotle. In H. J. Blumenthal's view, however, the commentators often assumed that there was a Platonist philosophy to which not only they but Aristotle himself subscribed. Their expository writing usually expressed their versions of Neoplatonist philosophy. Blumenthal here places the commentators in their intellectual and historical contexts, identifies their philosophical views, and demonstrates their tendency to read Aristotle as if he were a member of their philosophical circle.This book focuses on the commentators' exposition of Aristotle's treatise De anima (On the Soul), because it is relatively well documented and because the concept of soul was so important in all Neoplatonic systems. Blumenthal explains how the Neoplatonizing of Aristotle's thought, as well as the widespread use of the commentators' works, influenced the understanding of Aristotle in both the Islamic and Judaeo-Christian traditions.H. J. Blumenthal is the author or coeditor of six previous books and is currently preparing a two-volume translation, with introduction and commentary, of Simplicius' Commentary on "De anima" for publication in Cornell's series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle.

Author : Eugene Afonasin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004183272
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iamblichus and the Foundations of Late Platonism written by Eugene Afonasin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent scholarship and delving systematically into Iamblichean texts, these ten papers establish Iamblichus as the great innovator of Neoplatonic philosophy who broadened its appeal for future generations of philosophers.

Author : William Charlton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780934386
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philoponus: On Aristotle On the Intellect (de Anima 3.4-8) written by William Charlton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his commentary on a portion of Aristotle's de Anima (On the Soul) known as de Intellectu (On the Intellect), Philoponus drew on both Christian and Neoplatonic traditions as he reinterpreted Aristotle's views on such key questions as the immortality of the soul, the role of images in thought, the character of sense perception and the presence within the soul of universals. Although it is one of the richest and most interesting of the ancient works on Aristotle, Philoponus' commentary has survived only in William of Moerbeke's thirteenth-century Latin translation from a partly indecipherable Greek manuscript. The present version, the first translation into English, is based upon William Charlton's penetrating scholarly analysis of Moerbeke's text.

Author : John Philoponus
Publisher : Gerald Duckworth & Company Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Aristotle on the Intellect (De Anima 3.4-8) written by John Philoponus and published by Gerald Duckworth & Company Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draw on Christian and Neoplatonic traditions in presenting Aristotle's views on the immortality of the soul, the character of sense perception and the presence within the soul of universals. Translation of text with commentary and notes.

Author : Klaus Corcilius
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110376989
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partitioning the Soul written by Klaus Corcilius and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the soul have parts? What kind of parts? And how do all the parts make together a whole? Many ancient, medieval and early modern philosophers discussed these questions, thus providing a mereological analysis of the soul. Their starting point was a simple observation: we tend to describe the soul of human beings by referring to different types of activities (perceiving, imagining, thinking, etc.). Each type of activity seems to be produced by a special part of the soul. But how can a simple, undivided soul have parts? Classical thinkers gave radically different answers to this question. While some claimed that there are indeed parts, thus assigning an internal complexity to the soul, others emphasized that there can only be a plurality of functions that should not be conflated with a plurality of parts. The eleven chapters reconstruct and critically examine these answers. They make clear that the metaphysical structure of the soul was a crucial issue for ancient, medieval and early modern philosophers.

Author : Ursula Coope
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192558285
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought written by Ursula Coope and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neoplatonists have a perfectionist view of freedom: an entity is free to the extent that it succeeds in making itself good. Free entities are wholly in control of themselves—they are self-determining, self-constituting, and self-knowing. Neoplatonist philosophers argue that such freedom is only possible for non-bodily things. The human soul is free insofar as it rises above bodily things and engages in intellection, but when it turns its desires to bodily things, it is drawn under the sway of fate and becomes enslaved. Ursula Coope discusses this notion of freedom and its relation to questions about responsibility. She explains the important role of notions of self-reflexivity in Neoplatonist accounts of both freedom and responsibility. In Part I, Coope sets out the puzzles Neoplatonist philosophers face about freedom and responsibility and explains how these puzzles arise from earlier discussions. Part II explores the metaphysical underpinnings of the Neoplatonist notion of freedom (concentrating especially on the views of Plotinus and Proclus). In what sense, if any, is the ultimate first principle of everything (the One) free? If everything else is under this ultimate first principle, how can anything other than the One be free? What is the connection between freedom and nonbodiliness? Finally, Coope considers in Part III questions about responsibility, arising from this perfectionist view of freedom. Why are human beings responsible for their behaviour, in a way that other animals are not? If we are enslaved when we act viciously, how can we be to blame for our vicious actions and choices?

Author : Richard Sorabji
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801424328
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle Transformed written by Richard Sorabji and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: