| Title | Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Publication Place | Aldershot (Hampshire) |
| Publisher | Variorum |
| Series | Variorum collected studies series |
| Volume | 426 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This book presents a series of Dr. Blumenthal’s studies on the history of Neoplatonism, from its founder Plotinus to the end of Classical Antiquity, relating especially to the Neoplatonists’ doctrines about the soul. The work falls into two parts. The first deals with Plotinus and considers the soul both as part of the structure of the universe and in its capacity as the basis of the individual’s vital and cognitive functions. The second part is concerned with the later history of Neoplatonism, including its end. Its main focus is the investigation of how Neoplatonic psychology was modified and developed by later philosophers, in particular the commentators on Aristotle, and used as the starting point for their Platonizing interpretations of his philosophy. |
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| Title | Platonism in late antiquity |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Published in | Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism |
| Pages | 1-27 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Editor(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Translator(s) |
| What I hope I have done is to show in outline what late antique Platonism looks like now, and some of the ways in which its appearance has changed. I think one can assert with some confidence th at if anyone tries to do the same thing in ten year's time, the picture will have changed again. That is a measure both of the number of unanswered questions and of the rate at which they are now being approached. [Conclusion, pp. 21 f.] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/VxKQKDwsrZWFVna |
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| Title | Simplicius(?) on the first book of Aristotle’s De Anima |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Published in | Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism |
| Pages | 91-112 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Editor(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Translator(s) |
| Neoplatonic exposition of classical Greek philosophy includes two kinds of reinterpretation. The first and most basic is, of course, the reading of Plato himself as a Neoplatonist. This is, it goes without saying, to be found primarily in all the independent works of Neopla tonism, as well as in commentaries on works of Plato. The other, with which readers of the Aristotelian commentators are more often concerned, is the Platonization of Aristotle. The latter is crucial to our understanding of any Neoplatonist commentator, both in himself and also as an authority on Aristotle. And since we are dealing with a text at least superficially based on Aristotle, I shall devote most of this paper to some of the somewhat strange interpretations of him to be found in Book 1 of the De anima commentary. At the same time this particular book also offers an opportunity, which the commentary on what will have seemed to him the more obviously philosophically in teresting parts of the De anima does not1, to see how Simplicius works in the area of Plato interpretation, and we shall look at the way in which Plato and Aristotle are both subjected to similar tech niques of interpretation. [p. 91] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/UfgDOcNljlU9oJF |
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| Title | Soul Vehicles in Simplicius |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Published in | Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism |
| Pages | 173-188 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Editor(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Translator(s) |
| There has been a not inconsiderable amount of discussion of the nature and function of the "exiftia — or exochema — the body or bodies made of not quite bodily substance which served as an intermediary between body and soul in various Neoplatonisms from Porphyry, or even arguably Plotinus, down to and including Proclus. Rather less attention, and, in Simplicius’ case virtually none, has been paid to the nature and role of such intermediary vehicles in the Neoplatonist commentators on Aristotle. The purpose of the following pages will be to examine the use of the concept in Simplicius. [Introduction, p. 173] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/TVpisoEkoNEZkWU |
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| Title | Platonism in late antiquity |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Published in | Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism |
| Pages | 1-27 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Editor(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Translator(s) |
What I hope I have done is to show in outline what late antique Platonism looks like now, and some of the ways in which its appearance has changed. I think one can assert with some confidence th at if anyone tries to do the same thing in ten year's time, the picture will have changed again. That is a measure both of the number of unanswered questions and of the rate at which they are now being approached. [Conclusion, pp. 21 f.] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/VxKQKDwsrZWFVna |
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| Title | Simplicius(?) on the first book of Aristotle’s De Anima |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Published in | Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism |
| Pages | 91-112 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Editor(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Translator(s) |
Neoplatonic exposition of classical Greek philosophy includes two kinds of reinterpretation. The first and most basic is, of course, the reading of Plato himself as a Neoplatonist. This is, it goes without saying, to be found primarily in all the independent works of Neopla tonism, as well as in commentaries on works of Plato. The other, with which readers of the Aristotelian commentators are more often concerned, is the Platonization of Aristotle. The latter is crucial to our understanding of any Neoplatonist commentator, both in himself and also as an authority on Aristotle. And since we are dealing with a text at least superficially based on Aristotle, I shall devote most of this paper to some of the somewhat strange interpretations of him to be found in Book 1 of the De anima commentary. At the same time this particular book also offers an opportunity, which the commentary on what will have seemed to him the more obviously philosophically in teresting parts of the De anima does not1, to see how Simplicius works in the area of Plato interpretation, and we shall look at the way in which Plato and Aristotle are both subjected to similar tech niques of interpretation. [p. 91] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/UfgDOcNljlU9oJF |
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| Title | Soul Vehicles in Simplicius |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Published in | Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism |
| Pages | 173-188 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Editor(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Translator(s) |
There has been a not inconsiderable amount of discussion of the nature and function of the "exiftia — or exochema — the body or bodies made of not quite bodily substance which served as an intermediary between body and soul in various Neoplatonisms from Porphyry, or even arguably Plotinus, down to and including Proclus. Rather less attention, and, in Simplicius’ case virtually none, has been paid to the nature and role of such intermediary vehicles in the Neoplatonist commentators on Aristotle. The purpose of the following pages will be to examine the use of the concept in Simplicius. [Introduction, p. 173] |
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| Title | Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Publication Place | Aldershot (Hampshire) |
| Publisher | Variorum |
| Series | Variorum collected studies series |
| Volume | 426 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
This book presents a series of Dr. Blumenthal’s studies on the history of Neoplatonism, from its founder Plotinus to the end of Classical Antiquity, relating especially to the Neoplatonists’ doctrines about the soul. The work falls into two parts. The first deals with Plotinus and considers the soul both as part of the structure of the universe and in its capacity as the basis of the individual’s vital and cognitive functions. The second part is concerned with the later history of Neoplatonism, including its end. Its main focus is the investigation of how Neoplatonic psychology was modified and developed by later philosophers, in particular the commentators on Aristotle, and used as the starting point for their Platonizing interpretations of his philosophy. |
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