Contents
1. Introduction: Neoplatonism today
Pauliina Remes and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin
PART I: (RE)SOURCES, INSTRUCTION AND INTERACTION
2. Platonist curricula and their influence
Harold Tarrant
3. The Alexandrian classrooms excavated and sixth-century philosophy teaching
Richard Sorabji
4. Middle Platonism and its relation to Stoicism and the Peripatetic tradition
Gretchen Reydams-Schils and Franco Ferrari
5. Plotinus and the Gnostics: opposed heirs of Plato
John D. Turner
6. Plotinus and the Orient: aoristos dyas
Vishwa Adluri
PART II: METHODS AND STYLES OF EXEGESIS
7. Aristotelian commentary tradition
Han Baltussen
8. The non-commentary tradition
Andrew Smith
9. Plotinus’ style and argument
Luc Brisson
10. Proclus’ geometrical method
Marije Martijn
PART III: METAPHYSICS AND METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVES
11. Metaphysics: the origin of becoming and the resolution of ignorance
Sara Ahbel-Rappe
12. The metaphysics of the One
Jens Halfwassen
13. Number in the metaphysical landscape
Svetla Slaveva-Griffin
Riccardo Chiaradonna
15. Matter and evil in the Neoplatonic tradition
Jean-Marc Narbonne
PART IV: LANGUAGE, KNOWLEDGE, SOUL AND SELF
16. The gift of Hermes: the Neoplatonists on language and philosophy
Robbert M. van den Berg
17. Neoplatonic epistemology: knowledge, truth and intellection
Lloyd P. Gerson
John F. Finamore
19. From Alexander of Aphrodisias to Plotinus
Frederic M. Schroeder
20. Metaphysics of soul and self in Plotinus
Gwenaëlle Aubry
21. Perceptual awareness in the ancient commentators
Péter Lautner
PART V: NATURE: PHYSICS, MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Alessandro Linguiti
James Wilberding
Kevin Corrigan
PART VI: ETHICS, POLITICAL THEORY AND AESTHETICS
25. Plotinus on metaphysics and morality
Suzanne Stern-Gillet
26. Plotinus on founding freedom in Ennead VI.8[39]
Bernard Collette-Dučić
27. Freedom, providence and fate
Peter Adamson
28. Action, reasoning and the highest good
Pauliina Remes
Dominic J. O’Meara
30. Plotinus’ aesthetics: in defence of the lifelike
Panayiota Vassilopoulou
31. Neoplatonism and Christianity in the West
Dermot Moran
32. Neoplatonism and Christianity in the East: philosophical and theological challenges for bishops
Dimitar Y. Dimitrov
33. Islamic and Jewish Neoplatonisms
Sarah Pessin