Hi, I was wondering if anybody knows about Middle-Platonic theories of magic which look like what Plotinus wrote in the Ennead 4.4. The only thing I can think...
Hello, Cristian, Here is Grosseteste's translation of Et. Nic. I, 7, 98a20: "Amplius autem in vita perfecta. Una enim yrundo ver non facit nec una dies. Ita...
... José M. Zamora Departamento de Filosofía Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Campus de Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid e-mail:...
"José M. Zamora"
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Apr 2, 2006 12:14 pm
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My library just got Berchman's new *Porphyry Against the Christians*, and I started reading it last night. Has anyone else had a chance to look at it? I was...
... Christians*, and I ... I do have this book, though I haven't had a chance to dip into it, but I certainly didn't pay 139 dollars for it. I was assuming it ...
... Christians*, and I ... I truly am getting absent minded - or more likely my heart medication messing with my short-term memory. I recently bought Joseph...
Hoffman's, as I recall, followed some eccentric theory, and only dealt with the fragments from Macarius Magnus, which many suspect are not in fact referring to...
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.03.44 Robert M. Berchman, Porphyry Against the Christians. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 1....
... Thanks, Melanie, for posting this link. I love that Kraus actually asks how are students supposed to afford a book of this price range. Practicality...
I have to agree overall with B. Skene's negative review of Berchmann's work. What is most regrettable is that he has not made use of R. Goulet's recent...
Yikes. Would you venture an opinion on Hoffmann's other works along the same lines - his "On the True Doctrine" and "Against the Galileans"? Hoffmann's long...
Thanks for the Goulet refernces. You make all too clear the perils on not reading Italian and Spanish--among my many other defects. ... [Non-text portions of...
... Berchmann's ... view ... why ... the ... *does* ... Yes, indeed, but I was wondering how exactly to purchase this edition. I went to the link provided by...
... M.C. José, si nos estás escuchando allí en el ciberespacio, échanos una mano aquí ! ... M.C. That's it, all right. I believe List member Ana Palanciuc...
... couldn't ... una ... Muchissimas gracias - no hablo espanol muy bien! que lastima... ... Monogénès. ... By the way, I could find no review of either of...
Hello all, This may be of interest to some: it's a conference I've organized in London about Arabic philosophy in the 10th century, with the first day...
Peter Adamson
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Apr 19, 2006 2:24 pm
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Complatonice, Wish I could come, but can't be in London till mid August. Best wishes, Michael Allen (UCLA)...
Michael Allen
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Apr 19, 2006 4:47 pm
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... Por favor, como compro este libro? ?Cuanto costa? Muchas gracias. Dennis Clark Issaquah...
I am curious about any opinions concerning this book, which I just was finally able to get a copy of and of which have read the first chapter. Not new now -...
... Might not be the best topic to dip in after two years of silence but here I go: I do second the view that MDR's book is a good read and it seems, at least ...
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I just found this really fortuitously - synchronicity strikes - from a paper by Prof Gerson that I surfed into when Googling on Mme Richard's book (I hope he...
... M.C. Sorry, Dennis, but no cigar. Plato and the Foundation of Metaphysics is a translation of Platone e i fondamente della metafisica (Milan 1982), which...
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Well, I wondered about this, because I was already doubting it. Thanks for clearing that up - it was never published in Germany then. I'll go you one further,...
Gerson's article "What is Platonism" appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (2005), 253-276. Gerson erred in his book Aristotle and Other...
Lloyd Gerson
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Apr 21, 2006 3:02 pm
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Not to belabor poor Berchamn, but reading on in his intro. to *Contra Christianos*, I found this amazing passage: Plotinus left none of his own writings to...