Table of Contents

Introduction John J. Cleary 1. Neoplatonic Theology Dieu est-il tout-puissant? Alexandre d'Aphrodise, Origene le chretien, Plotin Jean Pepin 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 Maria 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 Sina) 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