| Title | Platonopolis. Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Publication Place | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | O'Meara, Dominic J. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity — from Plotinus in the 3rd century to the 6th-century schools in Athens and Alexandria — neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. This book presents a reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved, rather than excluded, political ideas. A reconstruction of the political philosophy of these thinkers is proposed for the first time, including discussion of these Platonists’ conceptions of the function, structure, and contents of political science (including questions concerning political reform, law, justice, penology, religion, and political action), its relation to political virtue and to the divinization of soul and state. This book also traces the influence of these ideas on selected Christian and Islamic writers: Eusebius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and al-Farabi. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/XdU0h35redPduwd |
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| Title | Simplicius on the Place of the Philosopher in the City (In Epictetum chap. 32) |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2004 |
| Published in | The Greek strand in Islamic political thought. Proceedings of the conference held at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 16 - 27 June 2003 |
| Pages | 89-98 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | O’Meara, Dominic J. |
| Editor(s) | Gannagé, Emma |
| Translator(s) |
| The purpose of this paper is to propose some discussion of a passage in which a pagan Neoplatonist philosopher of the first half of the sixth century A. D. speaks of the function of the philosopher in political and social life. The Neoplatonist is Simplicius and the passage is found in chapter 32 of his commentary on the Manual of Epictetus. The date of this commentary is uncertain, but it has been argued that Simplicius refers in it to the anti-pagan measures taken by the Emperor Justinian in 529 which put an end to the activities of the Neoplatonist school at Athens and led to the exile in Persia of the school’s head, Damascius, accompanied by his pupil Simplicius and by other philosophers. My translation, given below (II), of the passage in Simplicius’ commentary is preceded (I) by some indications concerning the context in which the passage occurs and will be followed (III) by comments on themes present in the passage. [introduction, p. 89] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/WPQfZjkM4dK6We0 |
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| Title | Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1989 |
| Publication Place | Oxford |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Dominic J., O'Meara |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality inspired Neoplatonist philosophers in Late Antiquity to develop theories in physics and metaphysics based on mathematical models. This book examines this theme, describing first the Pythagorean interests of Platonists in the second and third centuries and then Iamblichus's programme to Pythagoreanize Platonism in the fourth century in his work On Pythagoreanism (whose unity of conception is shown and parts of which are reconstructed for the first time). The impact of Iamblichus's programme is examined as regards Hierocles of Alexandria and Syrianus and Proclus in Athens: their conceptions of the figure of Pythagoras and of mathematics and its relation to physics and metaphysics are examined and compared with those of Iamblichus. This provides insight into Iamblichus's contribution to the evolution of Neoplatonism, to the revival of interest in mathematics, and to the development of a philosophy of mathematics and a mathematizing physics and metaphysics. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/clhKHxsFRwrAjFN |
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| Title | Neoplatonism, the Greek Commentators, and Renaissance Aristotelianism |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1982 |
| Published in | Neoplatonism and Christian thought |
| Pages | 169-177 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Mahoney, Edward P. |
| Editor(s) | O'Meara, Dominic J. |
| Translator(s) |
| In this paper I should like to share with my fellow students of Neoplatonism the results of researches in medieval and Renaissance Aristotelianism that have brought to light interesting ways in which Neoplatonism came to have a special impact on the development of Renaissance Aristotelianism. It is certainly not my aim to exclude other possible ways in which Neoplatonism had its effect, but I do believe that historians of ancient Neoplatonism will themselves be surprised to learn of the pervasiveness of certain themes among supposed proponents of Aristotle during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The two topics on which I wish to concentrate are (1) the influence on late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Aristotelianism of two late ancient commentators on Aristotle, namely, Themistius <317—388) and Simplicius (Jl. 530),1 and (2) a conceptual scheme of metaphysical hierarchy whose origins are clearly Neoplatonic and which was constantly debated during the same period. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/2X5szERakuAQeZj |
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| Title | Neoplatonism and Christian thought |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1982 |
| Publication Place | Albany |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Series | Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern |
| Volume | 3 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | O'Meara, Dominic, J. |
| Translator(s) |
| In this volume, the relationships between two of the most vital currents in Western thought are examined by a group of nineteen internationally known specialists in a variety of disciplines—classics, patristics, philosophy, theology, history of ideas, literature. The contributing scholars discuss Neoplatonic theories about God, creation, man, and salvation, in relation to the ways in which they were adopted, adapted, or rejected by major Christian thinkers of five periods: Patristic, Later Greek and Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern. [a.a] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/8tb5ZmmacZhgjDn |
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| Title | Some Later Neoplatonic Views on Divine Creation and the Eternity of the World |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1981 |
| Published in | Neoplatonism and Christian thought |
| Pages | 45-53 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Verbeke, Gérard |
| Editor(s) | O'Meara, Dominic J. |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Sytvkw5nnVN2NUQ |
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| Title | Neoplatonism and Christian thought |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1982 |
| Publication Place | Albany |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Series | Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern |
| Volume | 3 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | O'Meara, Dominic, J. |
| Translator(s) |
In this volume, the relationships between two of the most vital currents in Western thought are examined by a group of nineteen internationally known specialists in a variety of disciplines—classics, patristics, philosophy, theology, history of ideas, literature. The contributing scholars discuss Neoplatonic theories about God, creation, man, and salvation, in relation to the ways in which they were adopted, adapted, or rejected by major Christian thinkers of five periods: Patristic, Later Greek and Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern. [a.a] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/8tb5ZmmacZhgjDn |
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| Title | Neoplatonism, the Greek Commentators, and Renaissance Aristotelianism |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1982 |
| Published in | Neoplatonism and Christian thought |
| Pages | 169-177 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Mahoney, Edward P. |
| Editor(s) | O'Meara, Dominic J. |
| Translator(s) |
In this paper I should like to share with my fellow students of Neoplatonism the results of researches in medieval and Renaissance Aristotelianism that have brought to light interesting ways in which Neoplatonism came to have a special impact on the development of Renaissance Aristotelianism. It is certainly not my aim to exclude other possible ways in which Neoplatonism had its effect, but I do believe that historians of ancient Neoplatonism will themselves be surprised to learn of the pervasiveness of certain themes among supposed proponents of Aristotle during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The two topics on which I wish to concentrate are (1) the influence on late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Aristotelianism of two late ancient commentators on Aristotle, namely, Themistius <317—388) and Simplicius (Jl. 530),1 and (2) a conceptual scheme of metaphysical hierarchy whose origins are clearly Neoplatonic and which was constantly debated during the same period. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/2X5szERakuAQeZj |
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| Title | Platonopolis. Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Publication Place | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | O'Meara, Dominic J. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity — from Plotinus in the 3rd century to the 6th-century schools in Athens and Alexandria — neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. This book presents a reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved, rather than excluded, political ideas. A reconstruction of the political philosophy of these thinkers is proposed for the first time, including discussion of these Platonists’ conceptions of the function, structure, and contents of political science (including questions concerning political reform, law, justice, penology, religion, and political action), its relation to political virtue and to the divinization of soul and state. This book also traces the influence of these ideas on selected Christian and Islamic writers: Eusebius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and al-Farabi. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/XdU0h35redPduwd |
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| Title | Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1989 |
| Publication Place | Oxford |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Dominic J., O'Meara |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
The Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality inspired Neoplatonist philosophers in Late Antiquity to develop theories in physics and metaphysics based on mathematical models. This book examines this theme, describing first the Pythagorean interests of Platonists in the second and third centuries and then Iamblichus's programme to Pythagoreanize Platonism in the fourth century in his work On Pythagoreanism (whose unity of conception is shown and parts of which are reconstructed for the first time). The impact of Iamblichus's programme is examined as regards Hierocles of Alexandria and Syrianus and Proclus in Athens: their conceptions of the figure of Pythagoras and of mathematics and its relation to physics and metaphysics are examined and compared with those of Iamblichus. This provides insight into Iamblichus's contribution to the evolution of Neoplatonism, to the revival of interest in mathematics, and to the development of a philosophy of mathematics and a mathematizing physics and metaphysics. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/clhKHxsFRwrAjFN |
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| Title | Simplicius on the Place of the Philosopher in the City (In Epictetum chap. 32) |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2004 |
| Published in | The Greek strand in Islamic political thought. Proceedings of the conference held at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 16 - 27 June 2003 |
| Pages | 89-98 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | O’Meara, Dominic J. |
| Editor(s) | Gannagé, Emma |
| Translator(s) |
The purpose of this paper is to propose some discussion of a passage in which a pagan Neoplatonist philosopher of the first half of the sixth century A. D. speaks of the function of the philosopher in political and social life. The Neoplatonist is Simplicius and the passage is found in chapter 32 of his commentary on the Manual of Epictetus. The date of this commentary is uncertain, but it has been argued that Simplicius refers in it to the anti-pagan measures taken by the Emperor Justinian in 529 which put an end to the activities of the Neoplatonist school at Athens and led to the exile in Persia of the school’s head, Damascius, accompanied by his pupil Simplicius and by other philosophers. My translation, given below (II), of the passage in Simplicius’ commentary is preceded (I) by some indications concerning the context in which the passage occurs and will be followed (III) by comments on themes present in the passage. [introduction, p. 89] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/WPQfZjkM4dK6We0 |
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| Title | Some Later Neoplatonic Views on Divine Creation and the Eternity of the World |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1981 |
| Published in | Neoplatonism and Christian thought |
| Pages | 45-53 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Verbeke, Gérard |
| Editor(s) | O'Meara, Dominic J. |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Sytvkw5nnVN2NUQ |
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