{"title":"Studies In Platonism Neoplatonism And The Platonic Tradition","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"proclus-on-the-hieratic-art-according-to-the-greeks-book-eleni-pachoumi-9789004697546","title":"Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks","description":"The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus’ \u003ci\u003eOn the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks\u003c\/i\u003e. The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describes the theurgic union, putting an emphasis on a conceptual blending of ritual actions (teletai, e.g. the role of statues, incenses, synthêmata, symbols, purifications, invocations and epiphanies) and philosophical concepts (e.g. union of many powers, ‘one and many’, symphathy, natural sympathies, attraction, mixing and division).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51065581666577,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51065583599889,"sku":"NIN9789004697546","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52679332823313,"sku":"NLS9789004697546","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9004697543.jpg?v=1768563267"},{"product_id":"thinking-being-introduction-to-metaphysics-in-the-classical-tradition-book-eric-perl-9789004264205","title":"Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThinking Being\u003c\/i\u003e, Eric Perl articulates central ideas and arguments regarding the nature of reality in Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Aquinas. He shows that, throughout this tradition, these ideas proceed from and return to the indissoluble togetherness of thought and being, first clearly expressed by Parmenides. The emphasis throughout is on continuity rather than opposition:  Aristotle appears as a follower of Plato in identifying being as intelligible form, and Aquinas as a follower of Plotinus in locating the first principle “beyond being”.  Hence Neoplatonism, itself a coherent development of Platonic thought, comes to be seen as the mainstream of classical philosophy. Perl’s book thus contributes to a revisionist understanding of the fundamental outlines of the western tradition in metaphysics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51080401813777,"sku":"NIN9789004264205","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53563596407057,"sku":"NLS9789004264205","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9004264205.jpg?v=1768561882"},{"product_id":"plotinus-on-what-we-think-we-are-book-wiebke-marie-stock-9789004678644","title":"Plotinus on What We Think We Are","description":"The Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus invites us to take part in his philosophizing when he encourages his readers to think about what they think they are, as living beings, human beings, as rational beings, ethical subjects and as philosophers. He is interested in what we say about ourselves in ordinary language and notices that such ordinary experience conflicts with what the Platonic tradition claims we (truly) are. This conflict does not lead him to turn away from the human terms and expressions, but impels him to take seriously what we say about ourselves and to explain it philosophically.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51378609226001,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51378609422609,"sku":"NIN9789004678644","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53349877874961,"sku":"NLS9789004678644","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9004678646.jpg?v=1768557978"},{"product_id":"afterlife-of-the-platonic-soul-book-maha-el-kaisy-9789004176232","title":"The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul","description":"Plato's doctrine of the soul, its immaterial nature, its parts or faculties, and its fate after death (and before birth) came to have an enormous influence on the great religious traditions that sprang up in late antiquity, beginning with Judaism (in the person of Philo of Alexandria), and continuing with Christianity, from St. Paul on through the Alexandrian and Cappadocian Fathers to Byzantium, and finally with Islamic thinkers from Al-kindi on. This volume, while not aspiring to completeness, attempts to provide insights into how members of each of these traditions adapted Platonist doctrines to their own particular needs, with varying degrees of creativity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52427959173393,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52427959894289,"sku":"NLS9789004176232","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004176232.jpg?v=1768561675"},{"product_id":"studies-on-plato-aristotle-and-proclus-book-john-m-dillon-9789004233232","title":"Studies on Plato, Aristotle and Proclus","description":"John J. Cleary (1949-2009) was an internationally recognised authority in many aspects of ancient philosophy. As well as penetrating and original studies of Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus, he was particularly interested in the philosophy of mathematics, and ancient theories of education. The essays included in this collection display Cleary's range of expertise and originality of approach. Cleary was especially attentive to the problems involved in the interpretation of a philosophical text: in his reading of Plato he recognised the special status of dialogue as a privileged mode of philosophical writing. His underlying concern was the open-ended character of philosophy itself, to be pursued with intellectual rigour and respect both for the question and one's interlocutor. These collected essays are representative of John Cleary's philosophical life's work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52594912624913,"sku":"NLS9789004233232","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004233232.jpg?v=1768995874"},{"product_id":"plotinus-on-beauty-book-ota-gl-9789004510197","title":"Plotinus on Beauty","description":"Although Plotinus' two treatises on beauty could be taken to reflect an evolution in his thought, a careful examination shows that he consistently argues for a conception of beauty as the illuminated unity in multiplicity of the Intellect.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52665730007313,"sku":"NLS9789004510197","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004510197.jpg?v=1768560513"},{"product_id":"philosophy-of-the-few-against-the-christians-book-pier-franco-beatrice-9789004680067","title":"The Philosophy of the Few against the Christians","description":"This book provides a rediscovery of one of the most influential philosophical and religious works of Late Antiquity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52678043107601,"sku":"NLS9789004680067","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52693001928977,"sku":"NIN9789004680067","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004680067.jpg?v=1768559006"},{"product_id":"models-of-desire-in-graeco-arabic-philosophy-book-bethany-somma-9789004460836","title":"Models of Desire in Graeco-Arabic Philosophy","description":"This study argues that late ancient Greek and medieval Islamic philosophers interpret human desire along two frameworks in reaction to Aristotle’s philosophy. The investigation of the model dichotomy unfolds historically from the philosophy of Plotinus through the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in 8th-10th century Baghdad to 12th century al-Andalus with the philosophy of Ibn Bāǧǧa and Ibn Ṭufayl.  \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nDiverging on desire’s inherent or non-inherent relation to the desiring subject, the two models reveal that the desire’s role can orient opposed accounts of human perfection: logically-structured demonstrative knowledge versus an ineffable witnessing of the truth. Understanding desire along these models, philosophers incorporated supra-rational aspects into philosophical accounts of the human being.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52679553974545,"sku":"NLS9789004460836","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52763093467409,"sku":"NIN9789004460836","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004460836.jpg?v=1768560287"},{"product_id":"plotinus-on-eternity-and-time-ennead-iii-7-book-kit-tempest-walters-9789004693531","title":"Plotinus on Eternity and Time (Ennead III.7)","description":"Plotinus' Ennead III.7 is a treatise concerning the journey of the human soul first descending into time and then reclaiming its original identity in eternity. The treatise also conceives eternity as the key which grants access to the forms, and time as the portal through which the soul enters the physical universe. Plotinus supports his analysis by drawing upon a rich philosophical tradition including the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans, Peripatetics and Pythagoreans. This book contains an extensive introduction, alongside the Oxford Classical Text of III.7, a translation, and a line-by-line commentary to guide the reader through the text.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52680103002385,"sku":"NLS9789004693531","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52692955398417,"sku":"NIN9789004693531","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004693531.jpg?v=1768563390"},{"product_id":"plato-s-timaeus-and-the-missing-fourth-guest-book-donna-m-altimari-adler-9789004389915","title":"Plato's Timaeus and the Missing Fourth Guest","description":"In Plato's Timaeus and the Missing Fourth Guest, Donna M. Altimari Adler offers an original account of Plato's Timaeus from 35a-36d, yielding a new interpretation of the Timaeus scale and cosmic harmony imbedded in the text.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52681245884689,"sku":"NLS9789004389915","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004389915.jpg?v=1768560538"},{"product_id":"commentary-of-al-nayrizi-on-books-ii-iv-of-euclid-s-elements-of-geometry-book-anthony-lo-bello-9789004173897","title":"The Commentary of al-Nayrizi on Books II-IV of Euclid's Elements of Geometry","description":"The Commentary of al-Nayrizi (circa 920) on Euclid s Elements of Geometry occupies an important place both in the history of mathematics and of philosophy, particularly Islamic philosophy. It is a compilation of original work by al-Nayrizi and of translations and commentaries made by others, such as Heron. It is the most influential Arabic mathematical manuscript in existence and a principle vehicle whereby mathematics was reborn in the Latin West. Furthermore, the Commentary on Euclid by the Platonic philosopher Simplicius, entirely reproduced by al-Nayrizi, and nowhere else extant, is essential to the study of the attempt to prove Euclid s Fifth Postulate from the preceding four. Al-Nayrizi was one of the two main sources from which Albertus Magnus (1193-1280), the Doctor Universalis, learned mathematics. This work presents an annotated English translation of Books I-IV and of a hitherto lost portion of Book I.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52692703412497,"sku":"NLS9789004173897","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004173897.jpg?v=1778581218"},{"product_id":"death-and-immortality-in-late-neoplatonism-book-sebastian-ramon-philipp-gertz-9789004207172","title":"Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism","description":"This study focuses on the ancient commentaries on Plato's Phaedo by Olympiodorus and Damascius and aims to present the relevance of their challenging and valuable readings of the dialogue to Neoplatonic ethics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52692855226641,"sku":"NLS9789004207172","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004207172.jpg?v=1768560395"},{"product_id":"new-essays-on-the-platonic-tradition-book-alexander-nehamas-9789004751132","title":"New Essays on the Platonic Tradition","description":"This book honours the scholarly contributions of Paul Kalligas through a collection of essays that explore the diverse dimensions of the Platonic tradition. It investigates central questions: How did interpretations of Plato’s thought evolve across institutional, dogmatic, and inspirational frameworks? What role did Plotinus play in systematising Platonism, and how did his work engage with earlier philosophical discourse? Spanning the Presocratics to late antiquity, the essays provide fresh perspectives on Plato’s metaphysics, Aristotle’s critical engagement with his master, and the Neoplatonic synthesis of classical thought. Anchored by Kalligas’ seminal scholarship on the \u003ci\u003eEnneads\u003c\/i\u003e, this volume represents a significant advancement in the study of ancient philosophy. It is an indispensable read for scholars of Platonism and the history of ideas.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53291306811665,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53291307860241,"sku":"NIN9789004751132","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004751132.jpg?v=1782989154"},{"product_id":"enigmatic-reality-of-time-book-michael-wagner-9789004170254","title":"The Enigmatic Reality of Time","description":"The nature and existence of time is a fascinating and puzzling feature of human life and awareness. This book integrates interdisciplinary work and approaches from such fields as physics, psychology, biology, phenomenology, and technology studies with philosophical analyses and considerations to explain a number of facets of the perennnial question of time's nature and existence, both in contemporary and in its initial classical Greek context; and it then explores and explains two of the most influential investigations of time in classical Western thought: Aristotle's, as presented in his Physics, and the (neo)Platonist Plotinus' in his treatise On Time and Eternity. Original interpretative perspectives are argued in both cases, and special attention is paid to Plotinus as partly responding to and critiquing Aristotle's account.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53316972380433,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53316973560081,"sku":"NLS9789004170254","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004170254.jpg?v=1774138631"},{"product_id":"platonic-theories-of-prayer-book-john-m-dillon-9789004308725","title":"Platonic Theories of Prayer","description":"\u003ci\u003ePlatonic Theories of Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of ten essays on the topic of prayer in the later Platonic tradition. The volume originates from a panel on the topic held at the 2013 ISNS meeting in Cardiff, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers. Together they offer a comprehensive view of the various roles and levels of prayer characteristic of this period. The concept of prayer is shown to include not just formal petitionary or encomiastic prayer, but also theurgical practices and various states of meditation and ecstasy practised by such major figures as Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus, Damascius or Dionysius the Areopagite.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53511346585873,"sku":"NLS9789004308725","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004308725.jpg?v=1778195917"},{"product_id":"iamblichus-and-the-foundations-of-late-platonism-book-eugene-v-afonasin-9789004183278","title":"Iamblichus and the Foundations of Late Platonism","description":"Iamblichus of Chalcis (c. 240-c. 325 C.E.), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, gave new life to Neoplatonism with his many philosophical and religious refinements. Once regarded as a religio-magical quack, Iamblichus is now seen as a philosophical innovator who harmonized not only Platonic philosophy with religious ritual but also Platonism with the ancient philosophical and religious tradition. Building on recent scholarship on Iamblichean philosophy, the ten papers in this volume explore various aspects of Iamblichus' oeuvre. These papers help show that Iamblichus re-invented Neoplatonism and made it the major school of philosophy for centuries after his death.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53516823363857,"sku":"NLS9789004183278","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004183278.jpg?v=1778286742"},{"product_id":"plotinus-in-dialogue-with-the-gnostics-book-jean-marc-narbonne-9789004203266","title":"Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics","description":"The point of view put forth in the following pages differs greatly from the common perspective according to which the treatises 30 to 33 constitute a single work, a \u003ci\u003eGroßschrift\u003c\/i\u003e, and this single work, Plotinus’ essential response to the Gnostics.   Our perspective is that of an ongoing discussions with his “Gnostic”—yet Platonizing—friends, which started early in his writings (at least treatise 6), developed into what we could call a \u003ci\u003eGroßzyklus\u003c\/i\u003e (treatises 27 to 39), and went on in later treatises as well (e. g. 47-48, 51).  The prospect of an ongoing discussion with the Gnostics bears an additional virtue, that of allowing for a truly dynamic understanding of the Plotinian corpus.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53516841713937,"sku":"NLS9789004203266","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004203266.jpg?v=1779530042"},{"product_id":"athenian-and-alexandrian-neoplatonism-and-the-harmonization-of-aristotle-and-pla-book-ilsetraut-hadot-9789004280076","title":"Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato","description":"\u003ci\u003eAthenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato\u003c\/i\u003e by I. Hadot deals with the Neoplatonist tendency to harmonize the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. It shows that this harmonizing tendency, born in Middle Platonism, prevailed in Neoplatonism from Porphyry and Iamblichus, where it persisted until the end of this philosophy. Hadot aims to illustrate that it is not the different schools themselves, for instance those of Athens and Alexandria, that differ from one another by the intensity of the will to harmonization, but groups of philosophers within these schools.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53516848202001,"sku":"NLS9789004280076","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004280076.jpg?v=1778839197"},{"product_id":"teachings-of-syrianus-on-plato-s-timaeus-and-parmenides-book-sarah-klitenic-wear-9789004192904","title":"The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides","description":"This books delves into the major tenets of Syrianus' philosophical teachings on the Timaeus and Parmenides based on the testimonia of Proclus, as found in Proclus' commentaries on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides, and Damascius, as reported in his On First Principles and commentary on Plato's Parmenides.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53561242288401,"sku":"NLS9789004192904","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004192904.jpg?v=1778801523"},{"product_id":"plutarch-in-the-religious-and-philosophical-discourse-of-late-antiquity-book-lautaro-roig-lanzillotta-9789004234741","title":"Plutarch in the Religious and Philosophical Discourse of Late Antiquity","description":"The works of Plutarch, notably his \u003ci\u003eMoralia\u003c\/i\u003e, provide us with exceptional evidence to reconstruct the spiritual and intellectual atmosphere of the first centuries CE. As a priest of Apollo at Delphi, Plutarch was a first range witness of ancient religious experience; as a Middle Platonist, he was also actively involved in the developments of the philosophical school. Besides, he also provided a more detached point of view both regarding numerous religious practices and currents that were permeating the building of ancient pagan religion and the philosophical views of other schools. His combining the insider and the sensitive observer’s perspectives make Plutarch a crucial starting point for the understanding of the religious and philosophical discourse of Late Antiquity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53563558396177,"sku":"NLS9789004234741","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004234741.jpg?v=1780134980"},{"product_id":"being-different-more-neoplatonism-after-derrida-book-stephen-e-gersh-9789004261402","title":"Being Different: More Neoplatonism after Derrida","description":"Having now benefited from viable editions and studies of many of the most important authors within the Neoplatonic tradition of western philosophy, it is time for us to read these materials more actively in terms of the philosophical developments of the late twentieth century that provide the greatest opportunities for intertextual exploration. The hermeneutical project that beckons was begun in Stephen Gersh's \u003ci\u003eNeoplatonism after Derrida: Parallelograms\u003c\/i\u003e (Brill, 2006) and is raised to a higher power in his present volume. Here a new course is charted in the reading of such ancient authors as Proclus, Damascius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Meister Eckhart through a critical engagement with the deconstructions of pagan and Christian Neoplatonic texts in the writings of Jacques Derrida.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53563588804881,"sku":"NLS9789004261402","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004261402.jpg?v=1778891664"},{"product_id":"lesthetique-neoplatonicienne-de-plotin-a-marsile-ficin-book-jean-michel-charrue-9789004756380","title":"L' L’Esthétique néoplatonicienne: de Plotin à Marsile Ficin","description":"La Beauté plotinienne, simple comme l'éclair, non symétrique, devenue intelligible, âme et idée, transcendante comme le Bien, c'était Ulysse, et non Narcisse. Dans l'\u003ci\u003eEnnéade 31\u003c\/i\u003e, elle est reliée à l’Art, l'Intelligence, et la Sagesse, gravée dans les temples. Augustin aimait les Beautés, et a lu l'\u003ci\u003eHortensius\u003c\/i\u003e. À Milan, écrit à Cassiciacum, épris de Plotin, il devient chrétien, sous Ambroise. La mystique de Ps-Denys, des ténèbres à la lumière influencera le Moyen Âge, et la \u003ci\u003eHiérarchie Céleste\u003c\/i\u003e commentée par Scot Érigène et Hugues de Saint-Victor inspirera à Suger la basilique gothique. Ficin, (quinzième siècle), le nouvel Orphée, promouvra cette Esthétique de la lumière, reprendra Plotin, et expliquera à Lorenzo le \u003ci\u003ePrintemps\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThe Beauty of Plotinus, simple as lightning, asymmetrical, intelligible, soul and idea, transcendent like Good, was Ulysses, not Narcissus. In the \u003ci\u003eEnnead 31\u003c\/i\u003e, it is linked to Art, Intelligence, and Wisdom, and engraved in temples. Later, Saint Augustine too loved Beauty and read the \u003ci\u003eHortensius\u003c\/i\u003e. In Milan, whilst in Cassiciacum and enamoured with Plotinus, Saint Augustine converted to Christianity under Ambrose. The mysticism of Pseudo-Dionysius, from darkness to light, then influenced the Middle Ages, and his \u003ci\u003eCelestial Hierarchy\u003c\/i\u003e, commented on by Scotus Eriugena and Hugh of Saint Victor, would inspire Suger's writings on light, the divine and Gothic architecture. At last, Ficino (15th century), the new Orpheus, promoted Suger's \u003ci\u003eAesthetics of Light\u003c\/i\u003e, studied Plotinus, and explained to Lorenzo de' Medici the painting \u003ci\u003ePrimavera\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53742743847185,"sku":"NLS9789004756380","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":54078932484369,"sku":"NIN9789004756380","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004756380.jpg?v=1783389580"},{"product_id":"plato-s-parmenides-a-constructive-reading-book-denis-walter-9789004743588","title":"Plato's Parmenides. A Constructive Reading","description":"This book presents a constructive interpretation of Plato’s \u003ci\u003eParmenides\u003c\/i\u003e. It offers a close reading of the dialogue’s first part and shows how the second part takes up its problems while unfolding a philosophical project that reaches beyond them. The reader is guided through the exercise as Denis Walter shows how it articulates a complex ontology, addressing the hierarchy of forms, definitions, participation, mathematical structure, and teleology. By organizing the argument around philosophical topics rather than deductions, the study brings into view a coherent ontological framework extending from the One to unlimited multitude. The book offers a clear and philosophically grounded reading of one of Plato’s most demanding texts.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":54116417143057,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":54116417405201,"sku":"NLS9789004743588","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004743588.jpg?v=1786400544"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/studies-in-platonism-neoplatonism-and-the-platonic-tradition-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}