CONTEXTUALIZING LATE GREEK PHILOSOPHY

Meletemata Series, No. 54. In English. Soft cover, 24 cm, 168 pp. ISBN: 978-960-7905-40-6.

This book is intended to show that the ideal of an at once sociohistorical and authentically philosophical approach to the spiritual life of the late Greek elites is still alive, and that a presentation of late antique philosophical life that does justice as much to the ideas themselves as to the circumstances in which they were studied and lived is a realizable aim. What follows is, then, work in progress, all destined to be presented more fully elsewhere.

CONTENTS:

PART I: ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN LATE ANTIQUE PLATONISM

Introduction

1. Learning to live in the world: Harmonizing the world - Learning by imitating - The philosopher priest -  Pythagoras the model student - Pythagoras the model teacher - The community

2. Learning to become like God: Educational exercises - Music and movement - The observation of nature - Divine ritual - Godlikeness - Conclusion

PART II: PLOTINUS'S LIFE AND TEACHING

3. The life

4. The Great Treatise 1

5. The Great Treatise 2

PART III: PLOTINUS'S POSTERITY

6. Plotinus among the Christians

7. Three Greek sheikhs from Baghdad: Plotinus, Proclus and Aristotle

Bibliography of primary sources

Index

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