Platonic Traditions in American Thought 

Description

This anthology of 17 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the ISNS: it contains many of the papers presented in their 1999 annual conference. Contents:

Socratic Virtue as Divine Dunamis in the Meno and Theages -  Melanie A. B. Mineo

The Cyclical Argument as Plato’s Summoner -  Miriam Byrd

Enneads III.8 (30) and V.8 (31) as a Positive Dialogue with Gnostics -  Michael McArthur

Consolation Within the Limits of Philosophy Alone -  Lawrence Masek

The Neoplatonic and the Gothic: A Walk through Amiens Cathedral – Gina Zavota

The Unseen Site of Plato’s Biography – David Justin Hodge

A. Bronson Alcott’s Transcendental Neoplatonism and the Concord Summer School – Jay Bregman

Huckleberries, Thoreau, and Platonism – Daniel Dombrowski

The Platonism of Lawren Harris – Frederic M. Schroeder

Facing the Beasts: Platonic Ideas in Charles Williams’ The Place of the Lion – David Westlake

Plotinus and Kant on Beauty – Robert M. Berchman

Peirce and Plato – Kenneth Laine Ketner

Josiah Royce and Plotinus Neoplatonism – Frank Oppenheim, S. J.

Dewey as a Reconstructed Platonist – Michael Eldridge

The Affinities Between Dewey’s Pragmatism and Plotinian Philosophy – Thomas Mether

The Platonic Eliade  – Douglas Allen

Proclus’ Theories of Motion  and Twentieth-Century Physics – Emilie Kutash