Platonic Interpretations

Description

This anthology of 11 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the ISNS: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2018 annual conference. Contents:

Alcibiades, the Bad Lover: A Defense of the Ethics of Plato’s Erotic Philosophy Elizabeth Hill

Plato’s Cosmology: Conflicting Theories  George Latura

Origen of Alexandria: Spheres, Squares and Other Abstract Objects Robert M. Berchman

Foundations of Ecology in Plotinus’ Neoplatonism Michael F. Wagner

Iamblichus’s Theory of Divination (μαντική) and Divine Inspiration: Nature and the Case of Hydromancy at Claros Andrea-Maria Lemnaru-Carrez

The Quarrel Between Porphyry and Iamblichus on the Ochema-Pneuma and the Purification of the Soul Julio Cesar Moreira

Hermias on the Vehicle of the Soul John F. Finamore

Nobility of the Complex: Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist Exposition on the Medieval Problem of Universals Khashayar Beigi

Philipp Melanchthon’s Twofold Reception of Platonism Giovanni Tortoriello

The Case of the Platonism of Origen of Alexandria in Early Modern Dutch-Arminian Theology Andrea Bianchi

The Psychodynamics of the Numbers Bruce MacLennan