The afterlife of the Platonic soul [electronic resource] : reflections of Platonic psychology in the monotheistic religions / edited by Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth and John M. Dillon.

Contributor(s): Series: Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science | Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 9.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: vi, 236 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 128/.109 22
LOC classification:
  • B398.S7 A38 2009eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- Early period -- Philo of Alexandria and Platonist psychology / John Dillon -- St. Paul on soul, spirit, and the inner man / George H. van Kooten -- Christian tradition -- Faith and reason in late antiquity : the perishability axiom and its impact on Christian views about the origin and nature of the soul / Dirk Krausm�uller -- The nature of the soul according to Eriugena / Catherine Kavanagh -- Islamic tradition -- Aristotle's Categories and the soul : an annotated translation of al-Kind�i's That there are separate substances / Peter Adamson and Peter E. Pormann -- Private caves and public islands : Islam, Plato, and the Ikhw�an al-�Saf�a' / Ian Richard Netton -- Tradition and innovation in the psychology of Fakhr al-D�in al-R�az�i / Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth -- Judaic tradition -- The soul in Jewish neoplatonism : a case study of Abraham Ibn Ezra and Judah Halevi / Aaron W. Hughes -- Maimonides, the soul and the classical tradition / Oliver Leaman -- Later medieval period -- St. Thomas Aquinas's concept of the human soul and the influence of Platonism / Patrick Quinn -- Intellect as intrinsic formal cause in the soul according to Aquinas and Averroes / Richard C. Taylor.
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Introduction -- Early period -- Philo of Alexandria and Platonist psychology / John Dillon -- St. Paul on soul, spirit, and the inner man / George H. van Kooten -- Christian tradition -- Faith and reason in late antiquity : the perishability axiom and its impact on Christian views about the origin and nature of the soul / Dirk Krausm�uller -- The nature of the soul according to Eriugena / Catherine Kavanagh -- Islamic tradition -- Aristotle's Categories and the soul : an annotated translation of al-Kind�i's That there are separate substances / Peter Adamson and Peter E. Pormann -- Private caves and public islands : Islam, Plato, and the Ikhw�an al-�Saf�a' / Ian Richard Netton -- Tradition and innovation in the psychology of Fakhr al-D�in al-R�az�i / Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth -- Judaic tradition -- The soul in Jewish neoplatonism : a case study of Abraham Ibn Ezra and Judah Halevi / Aaron W. Hughes -- Maimonides, the soul and the classical tradition / Oliver Leaman -- Later medieval period -- St. Thomas Aquinas's concept of the human soul and the influence of Platonism / Patrick Quinn -- Intellect as intrinsic formal cause in the soul according to Aquinas and Averroes / Richard C. Taylor.

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