The Great Tradition: Further Studies in the Development of Platonism and Early Christianity

Abstract

Plato and the Golden age a Platonist Ars Amatoria Speusippus on pleasure reclaiming the heritage of Moses - Philo's confrontation with Greek philosophy the formal structure of Philo's allegorical exegesis orthodoxy and eclecticism - middle Platonists and new-Pythagoreans Plutarch and the end of history logos and trinity - patterns of Platonist influence on early Christianity pleroma and noetic cosmos - a comparative study the mind of Plotinus Plotinus, the first cartesian? notre perception du monde exterieur selon Plotin et Berkerly singing without an instrument - Plotinus on suicide a kind of warmth - some reflections on the concept of grace in the neoplatonic tradition Plotinus and the Chaldaean oracles Porphyry's doctrine of the One Porphyry and Iamblichus in Proclus - commentary on the Parmenides Iamblichus and Henads again philosophy and theology in Proclus - some remarks on the philosophical and theological modes of exegesis in Proclus' Platonic commentaries the neoplatonic exegesis of the statesman myth Damascius on the ineffable some aspects of Damascius' treatment of the concept of Dynamis the roots of reason in John Scottus Eriugena Solomon ibn Gabirol's doctrine of intelligible matter.