Title: Platonism and its Christian heritage /
Authors: Rist, John M.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Variorum Reprints,
Physical description: 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Abstract: This collection of essays by John M. Rist deals with Platonism in the Imperial Roman age and with its various and complicated relationships with the growing Christian recognition of the necessity to think.
Contents: Some interpretations of agape and eros -- Neopythagoreanism and "Plato's" second letter -- The use of Stoic terminology in Philo's Quod deus immutabilis sit 33-50 -- The Greek and Latin text of the discussion on free will -- The importance of Stoic logic in the Contra Celsum -- Beyond Stoic and Platonist : a sample of Origen's Treatment of philosophy (Contra Celsum 4.62-70) -- Theos and the One in some texts of Plotinus -- The problem of "otherness" in the Enneads -- The One of Plotinus and the god of Aristotle --Metaphysics and psychology in Plotinus' Treatment of the soul -- Plotinus and moral obligation -- Basil's "Neoplatonism" : its background and nature -- Augustine on free will and predestination -- Prohairesis : Proclus, Plotinus et alii -- Mysticism and transcendence in later Neoplatonism -- A note on eros and agape in Pseudo-Dionysius.
Notes: Collection of 16 articles by the author, previously published between 1962 and 1983.
Subject headings (LCSH): Love--History.; Philosophy, Ancient.