The anatomy of neoplatonism
By: A.C. Lloyd.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Neoplatonism.
Description: This study proposes that Neoplatonism, while not a modern philosophy, is philosophy in the modern sense. Lloyd analyzes the key structures that underlie the dogmas of the Neoplatonic world picture, including the concept of emanation, the return of the soul to the One, the place of mystical knowledge, epistemology, and Porphyry's theory of predication, and shows that they rest on original but intelligible concepts and arguments.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-189) and indexes.