I am seeking some help here on the subject of the development of the concept of procession and return. I thought I had found an article that from some other...
Hi Dennis, ... I found a reference to a German scholar Werner Beierwaltes and his work “Proklos: Grundzuge seiner Metaphysik” on the procession subject on...
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Jan Opsomer
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Sep 2, 2007 8:56 am
... This is in fact an entire book on Plotinus, and a very good one. It discusses Alcinous and Numenius on procession. The notion of epistrophe has middle...
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Jan Opsomer
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Sep 2, 2007 9:01 am
I forgot to mention another contribution to the issue: Ratzinger, Josef [yes, the same one!], Emanation, in: Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, 4, 1959,...
Dear Dennis, You could also see: Pépin, J., “Theories of procession in Plotinus and the Gnostics”, in Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, 297-335. Bussanich, J....
Thanks, all, for the references. I am especially curious about the Alcinous and I have Whittaker's edition fortunately as well as the Pepin article. I would...
... Well, the Alcinous passage is quite striking indeed, employing in fact the verb "epistrephein": in reference to the "protos theos"; he writes "kata gar ten...
From amazon.de: Der Kommentar des Proklos zu Hesiods Werken und Tagen (Broschiert) von Patrizia Marzillo Über das Produkt Zum ersten Mal werden die Fragmente...
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Jan Opsomer
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Sep 3, 2007 8:43 am
... I agree. There are some striking passages that point in the same direction in Plutarch too (listed by Whittaker). The interpretation of chapter 10 of the...
Dennis, In IV.8.1.11-17 Plotinus refers directly to Heraclitus' fr. 60 (hodon te ano kai kato eipon). The subject-matter is Heraclitus' psyche with reference...
... für ... Joseph Ratzinger is an expert on St Augustine of Hippo, who was influenced by Neoplatonism in his conversion from Manichaeanism to Catholicism....
... M.C. So it has been claimed, notably by Paul Henry, but I doubt it : Plotinus wrote in Greek, and by the time of Augustine, even most intellectuals (like...
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... M.C. That's precisely the point. It's not at all clear that Plotinus - as opposed to summaries of Plotinian doctrine written, for instance, by Porphyry -...
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Michael, You wrote: "M.C. That's precisely the point. It's not at all clear that Plotinus - as opposed to summaries of Plotinian doctrine written, for...
According to John M. Rist Augustine referred to Plotinus as "Plato born again" in his work "Against the Skeptics" (3.18.41). Does anyone have a fuller quote on...
... M.C. When dealing with a historical question, there can clearly be little or no *positive* evidence to determine a *negative* fact. Let's say I maintain...
Dear Ron, Here is the original fragment you are looking for: 18. 41. Deinde in nostrum Tullium conflictio ista duravit, iam plane saucia et ultimo spiritu...
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David Butorac
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Sep 4, 2007 6:04 pm
The most recent and in my opinion best account of the status of platonism in contemporary scholarship in Augustine is, R. Crouse, "Paucis Mutatis Verbis: St....
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I just now finally read R.E. Allen's translation of the Euthyphro. It is the first dialog in the first volume of his translations - they now run to five...
I will confess I didn't do my homework properly before I raised this issue. A quick look at the index of Prof Dillon's <The Middle Platonists> results in two...
... Augustine would have gotten most of his ideas here about the New Academy from Cicero, correct? The comment about Plotinus is so general that it doesn't...
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... M.C. Interesting; my old Lyons edition (1651) gives Platonis. Theiler, despite his thesis that Aug. never read Plotinus, nevertheless agrees with the...
David, Thanks for that reference. One can read a few pages at the amazon.com website. The first thing Crouse points out is that Nebridius of Carthage was...
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... had ... Academy ... Dennis, My understanding is that Porphyry was still a vocal and active opponent of Christianity. The issue was indeed still current....
