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35In Thinking Being , Perl articulates central arguments and ideas regarding the nature of reality in Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Thomas Aquinas, thematizing the indissoluble togetherness of thought and being, and focusing on continuity rather than opposition within this tradition
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124Hierarchy and Participation in Dionysius the Areopagite and Greek NeoplatonismAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 68 (1): 15-30. 1994.
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49Colloquium 1: The Togetherness of Thought and Being: A Phenomenological Reading of Plotinus’ Doctrine “That the Intelligibles are Not Outside the Intellect”Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 22 (1): 1-40. 2007.
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20The Good of the IntellectProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 83 25-39. 2009.Recent continental philosophy often seeks to retrieve Neoplatonic transcendence, or the Good, while ignoring the place of intellect in classical and medieval Neoplatonism. Instead, it attempts to articulate an encounter with radical transcendence in the immediacy of temporality, individuality, and affectivity.On the assumption that there is no intellectual intuition (Kant), intellectual consciousness is reduced to ratiocination and is taken to be “poor in intuition” (Marion). In this context, th…Read more
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46Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision (review)Review of Metaphysics 49 (1): 138-139. 1995.This is a translation of the third edition of Hadot's Plotin ou la simplicité du regard. As the translator explains, Hadot "did not wish his Plotinus to be a work of scholarship". It is rather "a spiritual biography of Plotinus--not an analysis of all the details of Plotinus' system--and it is as a spiritual biography that it should be read". Chapters 1-5 present Plotinus' spiritual teachings, and chapters 6-7 discuss his biography in their light. The work is not primarily philosophical in natur…Read more
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