Defining Platonism : essays in honor of the 75th birthday of John M. Dillon /

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Group Author: Finamore, John F., 1951- (Editor); Wear, Sarah Klitenic (Editor); Dillon, John M. (honouree.)
Published: Franciscan University Press,
Publisher Address: Steubenville, OH :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xxi, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-333) and index.
ISBN: 9780996930536
0996930531
Index Number: B395
CLC: B502.232
Call Number: B502.232/D313
Contents: Preface : Apologia pro vita sua operibusque / John Dillon -- Platonic eschatology / John Bussanich -- The platonist as friend / Kevin Corrigan -- Plato's Timaeus : what is in the paradigm? / Allan Silverman -- The Athenians against the Persians : Plato's View (Laws III, 698a-700) / Christopher Rowe -- Numenius, Neopythagoreanism, and the troublesome "king(s)" / Harold Tarrant -- Can one speak of mysticism in Plotinus? / Luc Brisson -- The relentless pursuit of justice / Gary M. Gurtler, SJ -- Plotinus on evil : Proclus and the author of the divine names / Denis O'Brien -- Plotinus on suicide / Suzanne Stern-Gillet -- Self-reflexive ontogenesis in the tripartite Tractate and Plotinus / John D. Turner -- The metaphysics of power, logos, and harmony in Porphyry / Stephen Gersh -- The soul as a writing tablet, from Plato to Proclus / Anne Sheppard -- Hermias and the soul's Pilot / John F. Finamore -- Plotinus and the Apophatic Augustine / John Peter Kenney -- The figure of the diadochos, from Socrates to the late antique Athenian school of Neoplatonism / Carl Sean O'Brien and Sarah Klitenic Wear -- The Platonist as music lover : some reflections and auditions / Jay Bregman -- Platonism versus naturalism / Lloyd R Cerson.