The afterlife of the platonic soul
Subtitle: reflections of platonic psychology in the monotheistic religions
By: edited by Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth and John M. Dillon.
Contributors: Elkaisy-Friemuth, Maha.; Dillon, John M.
Series: Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts; Studies in platonism, neoplatonism, and the platonic tradition -- v. 9
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9789004176232
Subjects: Plato; Plato -- Influence; Soul; Abrahamic religions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Early period; title: Philo of Alexandria and platonist psychology / John Dillon; title: St. Paul on soul, spirit, and the inner man / George H. van Kooten; title: Christian tradition; title: Faith and reason in late antiquity : the perishability axiom and its impact on Christian views about the origin and nature of the soul / Dirk Krausmuller; title: The nature of the soul according to Eriugena / Catherine Kavanagh; title: Islamic tradition; title: Aristotle's categories and the soul : an annotated translation of Al-Kindi's that there are separate substances / Peter Adamson and Peter E. Pormann; title: Private caves and public islands : Islam, Plato, and the Ikhwan Al-S / Richard Netton; title: Tradition and innovation in the psychology of Al-Razi / Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth; title: Judaic tradition; title: The soul in Jewish neoplatonism : a case study of Abraham ibn Ezra and Judah Halevi / Aaron W. Hughes; title: Maimonides, the soul, and the classical tradition / Oliver Leaman; title: Later medieval period; title: St. Thomas Aquinas's concept of the human soul and the influence of platonism / Patrick Quinn; title: Intellect as intrinsic formal cause in the soul according to Aquinas and Averroes / Richard C. Taylor.