A History of Mind and Body in Late AntiquityAnna Marmodoro, Sophie Cartwright The mind-body relation was at the forefront of philosophy and theology in late antiquity, a time of great intellectual innovation. This volume, the first integrated history of this important topic, explores ideas about mind and body during this period, considering both pagan and Christian thought about issues such as resurrection, incarnation and asceticism. A series of chapters presents cutting-edge research from multiple perspectives, including history, philosophy, classics and theology. Several chapters survey wider themes which provide context for detailed studies of the work of individual philosophers including Numenius, Pseudo-Dionysius, Damascius and Augustine. Wide-ranging and accessible, with translations given for all texts in the original language, this book will be essential for students and scholars of late antique thought, the history of religion and theology, and the philosophy of mind. |
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... Platonists (2005), Ancient Epistemology (2009) and From Plato to Platonism (2013). FRANS A. J. DE HAAS is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Leiden University. He is the author of John Philoponus' New Definition of Prime ...
... Platonists (2005), Ancient Epistemology (2009) and From Plato to Platonism (2013). FRANS A. J. DE HAAS is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Leiden University. He is the author of John Philoponus' New Definition of Prime ...
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... Platonists and Christians have given us radically different images of Numenius, neither of which encompasses the whole of his philosophy. Plotinusʼ account of the soul–body relation radicalizes, one might say, Platoʼs stance in the ...
... Platonists and Christians have given us radically different images of Numenius, neither of which encompasses the whole of his philosophy. Plotinusʼ account of the soul–body relation radicalizes, one might say, Platoʼs stance in the ...
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... Platonists do not make a clear enough distinction between the Intellect and the soul, he lays out his own doctrine that the soul is a mean between Intellect and Nature. This statement comes as a let-down to the reader as it were, since ...
... Platonists do not make a clear enough distinction between the Intellect and the soul, he lays out his own doctrine that the soul is a mean between Intellect and Nature. This statement comes as a let-down to the reader as it were, since ...
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... Plutarch, Syrianus, Proclus and Damascius.17 Institutions like this liberated philosophers from concerns about declining class sizes amidst shifting student priorities, but they opened up other problems. The Athenian Platonists.
... Plutarch, Syrianus, Proclus and Damascius.17 Institutions like this liberated philosophers from concerns about declining class sizes amidst shifting student priorities, but they opened up other problems. The Athenian Platonists.
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... Platonists never hectored their students about paying fees; they instead spent a lot of time fundraising from the empireʼs pagan elite.18 By the time of Proclusʼ death, Damascius wrote, its endowment yielded 17 pounds of gold a year ʻas ...
... Platonists never hectored their students about paying fees; they instead spent a lot of time fundraising from the empireʼs pagan elite.18 By the time of Proclusʼ death, Damascius wrote, its endowment yielded 17 pounds of gold a year ʻas ...
Contents
Numenius | |
Plotinus | |
Porphyry | |
Frans A J de Haas | |
Proclus | |
The Ensoulment of the Body in Early | |
Mind Soul and Body | |
Basil of Caesarea | |
Gregory of Nyssa | |
Gregory of Nazianzus | |
Synesius of Cyrene | |
Augustine | |
Dionysius the Areopagite | |
Damascius | |
Mind and Body in Early | |
The Christian Conception of the Body | |
Bibliography | |
General Index | |
Index of Greek Hebrew and Latin Terms | |
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