The anatomy of neoplatonism

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The anatomy of neoplatonism

A.C. Lloyd

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990

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注記

Bibliography: p. [185]-189

Includes indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Neoplatonism has often been seen as a source of Christian theology, or of occultism. This book takes the different view that Neoplatonism, while not a modern philosophy, still has intelligible concepts and arguments applicable to modern thought in philosophy.

目次

  • Part 1 Attitudes to logic: commentaries and scholia
  • the Neoplatonic curriculum
  • conventional features of lectures
  • the dialectical methods and the meaning of analysis
  • Proclus' comparison of Aristotelian and Parmenidean logic
  • the Alexandrian conception of logic
  • the criterion of validity
  • logical form
  • how much did Neoplatonism influence the logical commentaries?
  • a comment on consistency and originality. Part 2 Porphyrian semantics: imposition of names
  • "genus" and "species"
  • use and mention?
  • singular terms, individuals and bundles of properties
  • predication
  • predicates as concepts
  • Porphyry's two programmes
  • when is a proposition one proposition?
  • how can a proper name be ambiguous?
  • which animal is predicated?
  • the unallocated transcendent genus or concept? - multiplication of the universal
  • the myth of a Neoplatonism nominalism
  • the Aristotelianism of Byzantine Neoplatonists. Part 3 Quasi-genera and the collapse of substance and attribute: p-series as quasi-genera
  • how can they have a deductive logic? - Plotinian and Proclan versions
  • Plotinus' radical criticism of substance and attribute
  • two structures, two levels of thought? Part 4 Procession and decline: emanation as external activity - the model in Aristotle's physics
  • the Proclan rule
  • defective reception as weakness of the form - Proclus' aversion from dualism
  • how monads descend - how transcendental triads function
  • matter replaced by composition of causes?
  • decline of monad as distance from the One - fundamental equations of force, value and unity. Part 5 The spiritual circuit: only a particular soul can ascend personal experience integral to Neoplatonism
  • ambiguities of reversion
  • philosophical interpretations of the spiritual circuit
  • appearance and reality. Part 6 The limits of knowledge: knowledge as a p-series
  • the process of perception
  • natural science - canons
  • sensation as obscure thinking
  • Iamblichus' principle of knowing - future contingents
  • now henads, not intellects, know particulars - the accidental. Part 7 Mysticism and metaphysics: pure intellect in Plotinus
  • pure intellect and henads in Proclus
  • the loving intellect - pre-intellect
  • a constructive interpretation of the motionless movement
  • what is pre-supposed by thought and existence
  • what is so valuable about knowledge?
  • how consciousness creates.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA10501527
  • ISBN
    • 0198242298
  • LCCN
    89035812
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Oxford [Oxfordshire],New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    ix, 198 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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