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20Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the AreopagiteState University of New York Press. 2007.Situates Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite as a Neoplatonic philosopher in the tradition of Plotinus and Proclus
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110Every Life Is a ThoughtPhilosophy and Theology 18 (1): 143-167. 2006.The distinction between persons and things reflects the opposition between reason and nature that is characteristic of modern thought: persons are constituted by rationality, self-consciousness, free will, and moral agency; things are taken to be merely natural or material beings, devoid of reason and the products of entirely mechanistic forces. Persons, as ends in themselves, alone deserve moral consideration; things (including all plants and animals) deserve no moral consideration. Accordingly…Read more
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51The Motion of Intellect On the Neoplatonic Reading of Sophist 248e-249dInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 8 (2): 135-160. 2014.This paper defends Plotinus’ reading ofSophist248e-249d as an expression of the togetherness or unity-in-duality of intellect and intelligible being. Throughout the dialogues Plato consistently presents knowledge as a togetherness of knower and known, expressing this through the myth of recollection and through metaphors of grasping, eating, and sexual union. He indicates that an intelligible paradigm is in the thought that apprehends it, and regularly regards the forms not as extrinsic “objects…Read more
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