Has anyone seen the somewhat new book Neoplatonic Philosophy: Introductory Readings? (edited by John Dillon, on Hackett Pub) Very curious as to the contents,...
Thanks, gentlemen, for pointing me to a book I already have, he said sheepishly. I was unable however to find any mention of these in any of the general...
Please see below the conference programme and booking form for the upcoming London Conference on Porphyry. [The same details and booking form are also on the...
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Harold Tarrant
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May 7, 2004 3:48 am
Dear recipients, One great merit of the Plato: Complete works, edited by John Cooper with Doug Hutchinson is that it takes the spuria (Hutchinson's...
Nice to get a response from one of the world's leading experts in the field. One thing, though : I was surprised not to see the names of Xenocrates and...
Thanks very much, Prof. Tarrant, for this information - I find these rather curious for their form - somehow gnomic utterances drawn together like this in a...
I recently came across a book on Eastern Orthodox theology, <The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church> by Vlaidmir Lossky. So far I have read just the first...
Dennis Clark wrote: *snip* ... Greetings Dennis, I haven't read Lossky's book, but if he is, as you say, painting "a picture of a total 'deus absconditus'"...
Greetings, Edward Thank you for such a carefully written response. I felt somehow, more intuitively than in any rigorous way, that there was more to Ps.-D than...
Greetings, I'm recalling that the notion of the Trinity is church dogma, an intellectual construct, rather than anything we can construe as "real," part and...
Greetings, I think that the whole discussion of divine darkness is an extremely important issue for the connection between Neoplatonism and Christianity. I was...
Greetings all, ... Yes. Agreed. in the sense that one was ... Of course, then I have to ask: Is there a reality _beyond_ our being-in-the-world? Or is it right...
I just wanted to add another thought regarding this fragment of Porphyry on the One or whatever the actual subject is - here is the first part again, for...
I gather that the neoplatonists like so many other ancient Greek philosophers abhorred the notion of ex nihilo creation, and I assume this view of matter as...
Reiner Shürmann puts forth: the One, as no-thing (me on) and to-be (to einai) "is best described as event" . . . . The One _is_ the directionality of all...
... Pardon my intrusion, no student of Ancient Philosophy am I, but this sounds very un-Plotinian: Plotinus reminds us time and again that the One is without...
Since I don't usually get involved in these sorts of conversations, preferring drive-by interjections, please attribute all errors to beginner's mind.... Thank...
... M.C. I'm not sure I'd stress this point too much. Clearly Syrill thinks Porphyry is talking about an entity of whom we have no knowledge and to whom no...
... I find it delightful and intriguing that M.C. and I, though writing two different posts, were writing at nearly the same hour/minute, with regard to the...
... M.C. No coincidence, I suspect. Schurmann, an anarcho-mystico-Heideggerian, attended Hadot's seminars at the Ecole Pratiuqe des Hautes Etudes in Paris in...
