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Neoplatonic Philosophy Introductory Readings

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ISBN-10: 0872207072

ISBN-13: 9780872207073

Edition: 2004

Authors: John Dillon, Lloyd P. Gerson, Lloyd P. Gerson, Lloyd P. Gerson

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Principal Texts Used in This Anthology
Plotinus: Enneads
I 1 (53) On What Is the Living Being and What Is the Human Being (complete)
I 4 (46) On Happiness
[sections] 1-4
I 6 (1) On Beauty (complete)
I 8 (51) On What Evils Are and Where They Come From
[sections] 1-5
III 8 (30) On Nature and Contemplation and on the One (complete)
IV 7 (2) On the Immortality of the Soul
[sections] 1; 9-15
IV 8 (6) On the Descent of the Soul Into Bodies (complete)
V 1 (10) On the Three Principal Hypostases (complete)
V 2 (11) On the Generation and Order of the Things That Come after the First (complete)
V 3 (49) On the Knowing Hypostases and on That Which Is Transcendent
[sections] 1-9; 13-17
V 5 (32) That the Intelligibles Are Not Outside the Intellect, and on the Good
[sections] 1-2
VI 4 (22) On the Presence of Being, One and the Same Simultaneously Existing Everywhere as a Whole--Part One
[sections] 1-11
VI 7 (38) How the Multitude of Ideas Came to Exist, and On the One
[sections] 1-23; 37-42
VI 8 (39) On the Free Will and the Volition of the One
[sections] 1-8; 12-16
Porphyry
Launching-Points to the Intelligible
[sections] 10, 11, 13, 16, 22, 25, 26, 32, 41, 43, 44
Inquiries Into Various Topics
Frs. 259, 261
On the Return of the Soul
Frs. 284, 285, 287, 300
The History of Philosophy
Frs. 220-223
Commentary on Parmenides
Frs. IV, V, VI
Commentary on Timaeus
Fr. LXXIX
Commentary on Categories
On Principles
Fr. 232
From Damascius On Principles (De Principiis)
Fr. 367
From Iamblichus On the Soul (De Anima)
[sections] 6, 17, 23, 37
Iamblichus
On the Mysteries of the Egyptians
Book I 1-3; 10; Book II 2; I1; Book III 25; Book V 26; Book VII 4-5; Book VIII 2; Book X 1-8
On the Soul (De Anima)
[sections] 7, 18, 19, 37, 38
Letter to Macedonius, On Fate
Frs. 1-7
Commentary on Parmenides
Fr. 2B
Commentary on Timaeus
Frs. 7, 29, 50, 53, 54, 81, 87
Commentary on Phaedrus
Fr. 6
Commentary on Philebus
Frs. 4, 7
From Proclus' Commentary on Parmenides
From Proclus' Platonic Theology
From Damascius' On Principles (De Principiis)
From Pseudo-Simplicius' Commentary on the Soul De Anima
Proclus
Elements of Theology
Props. 1, 7, 11, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 25, 35, 41, 53, 57, 64, 67, 123, 186, 187, 194, 195, 211
Platonic Theology
I 1-3
Commentary on Parmenides
Book I 617-659
Book VI 1043-1051
Commentary on Timaeus
Prologue
Book I 4-9, 24
Book II 276, 30-277, 14
Book III 234, 8-235, 9
Commentary on Book I of Euclid's Elements
The Nature and Origin of Evil
[sections] 1-5; 8-9; 30-33; 36-37; 51
Glossary