Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-311) and index.
Contents:
Marsilio Ficino's debt to George Gemistos Pletho: recollection and appropriation / Stephen Gersh. Carl O'Brien -- Platonism and Gregory of Nyssa / Mark Edwards -- Language of interaction in Cyril's Trinitarian theology and Proclus's theory of the Henads / Sarah Klitenic Wear -- Proclus and the tripartite soul in Plato's Republic / John F. Finamore -- Damascius: new insights in the Platonic tradition / Marilena Vlad -- "Pagan" and Christian Platonism in Dionysius: the double-reference scheme and its meaning / Ilaria Ramelli -- Body and soul in Dionysius the Areopagite / Filip Ivanović -- "Chaledonian participation": St. Maximus the Confessor's Christian Neoplatonism / Dionysios Skliris -- Plato's Parmenides in seventh-century Constantinople: George of Pisidia's Hexameron, 1639-93 / Frederick lauritzen -- The cardinal virtues in the works of Nicetas Stethatos / George Diamantopoulos -- John Italos on Authypostaton and Authyparkton in Quaestio 7 and his processing of Psellos's Phil. min. I, Op. 7 / Denis Walter -- Nikephoros Choumnos and Platonism / Christian Förstel -- "It will overcome its own nature": the topic of self-reversion of the intellect in Logos on Saint Peter of Athos by St. Gregory Palamas and in Ennead v.3 / Timur Shchukin -- Cardinal Bessarion and the Corpus Dionysiacum: Platonic love between East and West / Denis J. -J. Robichaud -- Marsilio Ficino's debt to George Gemistos Pletho: recollection and appropriation / Stephen Gersh.
Summary:
"This volume brings together articles by sixteen leading scholars on a cross-section of Platonists authors-Christian and non-Christian-from early through late Byzantium philosophy, including the Capaddocians, Cyril, Proclus, Damascius, Dionysius, George of Pisidia, Nicetas Stethatos, Nikephoros Choumenos, Psellos, and George Palamas. The reception of Byzantine thought in the Latin tradition is also considered. The articles collectively show development in the Greek East on ontological issues such as the doctrine of the soul, as well as theological concepts of the One/God and Trinity within a hierarchical universe. The volume considers exegetical questions relating to the use of Plato and the Platonists by Byzantine Christian authors"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Theandrites : studies on Byzantine philosophy and Christian Platonism
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