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Soul matters : Plato and Platonists on the nature of the soul
Title
Soul matters : Plato and Platonists on the nature of the soul / edited by Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Danielle A. Layne, and Crystal Addey.
ISBN
1628375485
9781628375480
1628374934
9781628374933
Publication
Atlanta : SBL Press, [2023]
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
xxi, 550 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Notes
"The present volume is the outcome of a conference organized by Sara Ahbel-Rappe at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) to celebrate the impending retirement of John Finamore as professor of classics and chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Iowa"--Page ix.
Summary
Platonic discourses concerning the soul are incrdibly rich and multitiered. Plato's own diverse and disparate arguments and images offer competing accounts of how we are to understand the nature of the soul. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that the accounts of Platonists who engage Plato's dialogues are often riddled with questions. This volume takes up the theories of well-known philosophers and theologians, including Plato, Plotinus, Proclus, the emperor Julian, and Origen, as well as lesser-known but equally important figures in a collection of essays on transmigration of the soul, the nature of the Platonist enlightenment experience, soul and gender, pagan ritual practices, Christian and pagan differences about the soul, mental health and illness, and many other topics. --Back cover.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 01, 2024
Series
Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; no.22
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Foreword / Suzanne Stern-Gillet
Introduction / Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Part 1. Madness, Irrationality, and Healing
Irrationality in the Platonic tradition / Lloyd P. Gerson
Plato on the manic soul / Suzanne Stern-Gillet
Plato and Plotinus on healing: Why does the art of medicine matter? / Svetla Slaveva-Griffin
Intellect sober and intellect drunk: Reflections on the Plotinian ascent narrative / John Dillon
Part 2. Ontologies and Epistemologies
Soul in Plato / Luc Brisson
Is the soul a form? The status of the soul in the final argument of the Phaedo, again / Van Tu
Against the stereotype of abstract knowledge in Plato: Scientific perception or sharp seeing in the middle and late dialogues / Kevin Corrigan
Of orioles, owls, and aviaries: Rethinking the problem of other minds / Robert Berchman
Initial stages on the ladder of ascent to the intelligible world: The metempsychotic aeons in Zostrianos and related Sethian literature / John D. Turner
Part 3. Hermeneutics and Methodologies
The indefinite Dyad and the Platonic equality of the male and female ruling principles / Danielle A. Layne
Soul in the earliest multilevel interpretations of the Parmenides / Harold Tarrant
Apuleius's Platonic laboratory / Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Proclus interprets Hesiod: The procline philosophy of the soul / John F. Finamore
Part 4. Ritual Contexts, Inspiration, and Embodied Practices
Julian and Sallust on the ascent of the soul and theurgy / Crystal Addey and Jay Bregman
The optimal times for incarnation: Let me count the ways / Dirk Baltzly and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
Prophets and poets: Plato and the daimonic nature of poetry / Elizabeth Hill
Part 5. Christian and Pagan Perspectives
The soul in Bardaisan, Origen, and Evagrius: Between unfolding and subsumption / Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
Proclus, Hermias, and Cyril of Alexandria on the embodied soul / Sara Klitenic Wear
Christian and pagan neoplatonism / Gregory Shaw.
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