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116The 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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38O'Meara, Dominic. The Structure of Being and the Search for the Good: Essays on Ancient and Early Medieval Platonism (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (1): 163-165. 2000.This collection of reprints contains twenty-four articles, whose original publication dates range from 1974 to 1997. It includes four essays on various themes in Plato and Aristotle, nine on Plotinus, six on later Greek Neoplatonism, and five on Eriugena. Fifteen are in English and nine are in French.
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