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...Christopher Isaac Noble [email protected] Coope Ursula , Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . 288 pp. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 What does it mean to be free, and what are the metaphysical conditions...

... these philosophers that has not previ- ously been discussed on this scale. The question arises from the comparison of two features of Neoplatonism. (1) For the Neoplatonist philosopher, discursive thinking does not yield knowledge. By discursive thought (dianoia) is meant the kind of thinking we normally...

... features of Neoplatonism. (1) For the Neoplatonist philosopher, discursive thinking does not yield knowledge. By discursive thought (dianoia) is meant the kind of thinking we normally practice (cf. 73, 99–102). It has to do with objects external to thought, objects mediated by images derived from sense...

.... O’Meara’s title, Platonopolis, refers to the utopian community that third-century- CE Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus purportedly wished to revive, under the patronage of the Emperor Gallienus, on abandoned land in Campania. Although his project ultimately failed, much like Plato’s ventures...

.... O’Meara’s title, Platonopolis, refers to the utopian community that third-century- CE Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus purportedly wished to revive, under the patronage of the Emperor Gallienus, on abandoned land in Campania. Although his project ultimately failed, much like Plato’s ventures...

.... O’Meara’s title, Platonopolis, refers to the utopian community that third-century- CE Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus purportedly wished to revive, under the patronage of the Emperor Gallienus, on abandoned land in Campania. Although his project ultimately failed, much like Plato’s ventures...

... that third-century- CE Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus purportedly wished to revive, under the patronage of the Emperor Gallienus, on abandoned land in Campania. Although his project ultimately failed, much like Plato’s ventures in Syracuse at the court of Dionysius, the report (credible...

... that third-century- CE Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus purportedly wished to revive, under the patronage of the Emperor Gallienus, on abandoned land in Campania. Although his project ultimately failed, much like Plato’s ventures in Syracuse at the court of Dionysius, the report (credible...

... that third-century- CE Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus purportedly wished to revive, under the patronage of the Emperor Gallienus, on abandoned land in Campania. Although his project ultimately failed, much like Plato’s ventures in Syracuse at the court of Dionysius, the report (credible...

.... O’Meara’s title, Platonopolis, refers to the utopian community that third-century- CE Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus purportedly wished to revive, under the patronage of the Emperor Gallienus, on abandoned land in Campania. Although his project ultimately failed, much like Plato’s ventures...

... that third-century- CE Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus purportedly wished to revive, under the patronage of the Emperor Gallienus, on abandoned land in Campania. Although his project ultimately failed, much like Plato’s ventures in Syracuse at the court of Dionysius, the report (credible...

.... O’Meara’s title, Platonopolis, refers to the utopian community that third-century- CE Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus purportedly wished to revive, under the patronage of the Emperor Gallienus, on abandoned land in Campania. Although his project ultimately failed, much like Plato’s ventures...

... the fact that some Neoplatonists thought it required abstinence from particular kinds of food, for example, meat ( Porphyry 2000 , book 1; and Porphyry 1991 , sec. 2). In answer to (ii), Gertz suggests that Plotinus allowed for exceptions (madness, 30–31; slavery and intolerable pain, 32), in contrast...

... points out, Plato does not explicitly delineate it in his texts. This raises a pertinent question: Why does Plato introduce the Idea of the Good alongside the Form of the Good in his metaphysical framework? Gerson finds an answer in the interpretation by the Neoplatonist thinker Proclus, who in his...

... the various acts of the intellect and the place of contemplation among them. The discussion of Aquinas’s reliance on Neoplatonist sources in preference to Aristotle is particularly useful. Chapter 3 is a bit more tentative and speculative, applying the theory of transcendentals to understand contemplation...

... to aesthetics, opposed to what he considers subjectivism and empiricism, but it should be obvious from his summary description of the position that many of its tenets were common property in the eighteenth century, shared with many Britons, obviously with the Neoplatonist Shaftesbury and his closest...

... to what he considers subjectivism and empiricism, but it should be obvious from his summary description of the position that many of its tenets were common property in the eighteenth century, shared with many Britons, obviously with the Neoplatonist Shaftesbury and his closest followers, such as his...

..., but it should be obvious from his summary description of the position that many of its tenets were common property in the eighteenth century, shared with many Britons, obviously with the Neoplatonist Shaftesbury and his closest followers, such as his nephew James Harris and the Aberdonian George Turnbull...

..., but it should be obvious from his summary description of the position that many of its tenets were common property in the eighteenth century, shared with many Britons, obviously with the Neoplatonist Shaftesbury and his closest followers, such as his nephew James Harris and the Aberdonian George Turnbull...

... to aesthetics, opposed to what he considers subjectivism and empiricism, but it should be obvious from his summary description of the position that many of its tenets were common property in the eighteenth century, shared with many Britons, obviously with the Neoplatonist Shaftesbury and his closest...