Table of Contents

Preface R. Baine Harris Editors' Introduction Nicholas J. Moutafakis and Aphrodite Alexandrakis I. Neoplatonism and the Concept of the Beautiful Action, Contemplation and Interiority in the Thinking if Beauty in Plotinus Jean-Marc Narbonne Personal Beauty in the Thought of Plotinus Joseph Sen The Beautiful According to Dionysius Dimitrios N. Koutras The Experience of Beauty in Plotinus and Aquinas: Some Similarities and Differences Patrick Quinn II. Neoplatonism and Representational Design The Sense of Beauty in Proclus the Neoplatonist Christos Terezis and Kalomoira Polychronopoulou The Vigil of the One and Plotinian Iconoclasm Frederic M. Schroeder Neoplatonic Influences on Eastern Iconography: A Greek-rooted Tradition Aphrodite Alexandrakis The Neoplatonic Tradition in the Art of El Greco Robert Meredith Helm Giorgio Vasari's The Toilet of Venus: Neoplatonic Notion of Female Beauty Liana De Girolami Cheney Neoplatonism in the Design of Baroque Architecture John Hendrix III. Neoplatonism in Contemporary Aesthetics Poetic Hierarchies in the Works of Nikos Kazantzakis John P. Anton Neoplatonic Elements in the Spiritual Life John Lachs Martin Heidegger in Mimesis in Plato and Platonism Constaintinos Proimos The Neoplatonic Dimensions of Skovoroda's Aesthetic Theory Roman T. Ciapalo Neoplatonism and American Aesthetics Jay Bregman IV. Neoplatonism and Cosmic Genesis The Role of Aesthetics in Plotinus' Ascent of the Soul J. Noel Hubler Creation or Metamorphosis? Plotinus on the Genesis of the World Panayiota Vassilopoulou Divinized and De-divinized Conceptions of the World and of Cosmos Leonidas C. Bargeliotes The Contributors Index

About the Author

Aphrodite Alexandrakis is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Barry University. Nicholas J. Moutafakis is Professor of Philosophy at Cleveland State University. He is the author of Imperatives and Their Logics and The Logics of Preference: A Study of Prohairetic Logics in Twentieth Century Philosophy.