The anatomy of neoplatonism
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The anatomy of neoplatonism
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990
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Bibliography: p. [185]-189
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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