Armstrong Blumenthal Markus (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. x, 256 pages ; 24 cm. Summary:"The studies collected in this book are all concerned with aspects of the Platonic tradition, either in its own internal development in the Hellenistic age and the period of the Roman Empire, or with the influence of Platonism, in one or other of its forms, on other spiritual traditions, especially that of Christianity." [Book jacket]. Contents: Eros and Philia in Plato's moral cosmos / R.J. O'Connell Apuleius and Plutarch / P.G. Walsh Formula analogiae / H. Dörrie Plutarch, Platonism and Christianity / J. Whittaker The importance of Stoic logic in the Contra Celsum / J.M. Rist The sma-sema formula / C.J. de Vogel Potentiality and the problem of plurality in the intelligible world / A. Smith Plotinus and the Gnostics on the generation of matter / D. O'Brien Ouranos, Kronos and Zeus in Plotinus' treatise against the Gnostics / P. Hadot The Gnostics and "the ancient philosophy" in Plotinus / J. Igal The Neoplatonism of Marius Victorinus the Christian / M.T. Clark The role of Neoplatonism in St. Augustine's De civitate Dei / R. Russell Augustine on the measurement of time / G.J.P. O'Daly In multa defluximus / R.D. Crouse Hellenism and Christianity in Basil the Great's address Ad adulescentes / E.L. Fortin The eclipse of a Neoplatonic theme / R.A. Markus Plotinus in later Platonism / H.J. Blumenthal Divine omniscience in Plotinus, Proclus and Aquinas / R.T. Wallis Image and counterimage / W. Beierwaltes.