Metaphysical Patterns in Platonism- Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Times

This anthology of 18 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the ISNS: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2005 annual conference. Contents:

The Platonic Tripartite Soul and the Platonism of Galen’s on the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato – John F. Finamore;

Who Thought the Stars are Causes? The Astrological Doctrine Criticized by Plotinus – Marilynn Lawrence;

The Transcendence of Sophia in Plotinus’ Treatise On Intelligible Beauty – Daniele Bertini;

The Good’s Beauty is Above Beauty: Plotinus’ Argument In Ennead VI.7- Martin Achard;

Plotinus On The Being of The One – John Bussanich;

Consulting the Oracle: The Mantic Art and its Causation in Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis – Crystal Addey;

Astrology as Divination: Iamblichean Theory and its Contemporary Practice – Gregory Shaw;

The Roles of Apollo & Dionysus in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy and in the Emperor Julian’s Theology – Jay Bregman;

Augustine, Proust and the Rhetoric of Time and Creation – Burcht Pranger;

Monophysitism and the Evolution of Theological Discourse in Christian Neoplatonism - Edward Moore;

Eriugena, Emerson and the Poetics of Universal Nature – Willemien Otten;

Marsilio Ficino’s Platonism on Human-Divine Kinship and Assimilation – Mary Lenzi;

The Place of the Universe: Science and Platonism in Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus – Gina Zavota;

Mapping Knowledge & Consciousness of Being: Categories as Transcendentals in Plotinus & Hegel – Robert M. Berchman;

Critique and Rescue: On Adorno’s Diagnosis of Aristotle’s Metaphysics – Russell Ford;

Wincenty Lutoslawski Platonic Studies: Plato as an Inspiration for Polish Messianism – Tomas Mróz;

Neoplatonism in Science Past and Future – Bruce Maclennan;

The Primordial Tradition of the World’s Religions and the Reconstruction of Neoplatonic Metaphysics – Atsushi Sumi.