The Anatomy of Neoplatonism

ISBN-13: 9780198238065 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 208 str.

A. C. Lloyd

Opis

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.

Recenzje

learned and fascinating . . . I doubt whether any other living scholar could have written so effectively on Neoplatonism in this way.

O autorze

A. C. Lloyd was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool from 1957 to 1983, and Emeritus Professor thereafter.