Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353).
Contents:
The problem of the self and its centre : postmodernism and neoplatonism / Kevin Corrigan. Immortality vs. tripartition : the soul in Plato / Gwendolyn Gruber -- The tripartite soul in Plato's Republic and Phaedrus / John F. Finamore -- Erò‚s as institution : a consideration of why Plato wrote the Symposium / Matthew E. Kenney -- Metaphors : thinking and being in Aristotle and Plotinus / Robert Berchman -- Plotinus' philosophical opposition to gnosticism and the implicit axiom of continuous hierarchy / Zeke Mazur -- Plotinus : self and consciousness / Gary M. Gurtler -- Alone to the alone : the ascent to the one in Plotinus / Deepa Majumdar -- The sphere and the altar of sacrifice / Gregory Shaw -- The Egyptian Book of the dead and neoplatonic philosophy / Algis Uzdavinys -- Theories of nature in ancient platonism / John Phillips -- A physics for the psyche? : Proclus' Instituta physica and the "life" of the soul / Emilie Kutash -- Damaskios' new conception of metaphysics / Carolle Tresson & Alain Metry -- "The Torah speaks in the language of humans" : on some uses of Plato's theory of myth in medieval Jewish philosophy / Aaron Hughes -- The manifest image : revealing the hidden in Halevi, Saadya and Ibn Gabirol / Sarah Pessin -- Prophecy, imagination and the poet's fine frenzy : reflections of a Cambridge platonist / Douglas Hedley -- Listening to the voice of fire : theurgical fitness and esoteric sensitivity / Leonard George -- Evolution, Jung, and theurgy : their role in modern neoplatonism / Bruce MacLennan -- The problem of the self and its centre : postmodernism and neoplatonism / Kevin Corrigan.
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