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Faces of the Infinite: Neoplatonism and Poetics at the Confluence of Africa, Asia and Europe. Proceedings of the British Academy (edited book)The British Academy. forthcoming.
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14A text worthy of Plotinus: the lives and correspondence of P. Henry S.J., H.-R. Schwyzer, A.H. Armstrong, J. Trouillard and J. Igal S.J (edited book, review)Leuven University Press. 2021.A Text Worthy of Plotinus makes available for the first time information on the collaborative work that went into the completion of the first reliable edition of Plotinus’ Enneads: Plotini Opera, editio maior, three volumes (Brussels, Paris, and Leiden, 1951-1973), followed by the editio minor, three volumes (Oxford, 1964-1983). Pride of place is given to the correspondence of the editors, Paul Henry S.J. and Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer, with other prominent scholars of late antiquity, amongst whom are…Read more
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49Interview with Professor John M. DillonInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 12 (2): 197-202. 2018.
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49Le Principe Du Beau Chez Plotin: Réflexions sur Enneas VI.7.32 et 33Phronesis 45 (1). 2000.The status of beauty in Plotinus' metaphysics is unclear: is it a Form in Intellect, the Intelligible Principle itself, or the One? Basing themselves on a number of well-known passages in the "Enneads," and assuming that Plotinus' Forms are similar in function and status to Plato's, many scholars hold that Plotinus theorized beauty as a determinate entity in Intellect. Such assumptions, it is here argued, lead to difficulties over self-predication, the interpretation of Plotinus's rich and varie…Read more
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11Plotin, Traité 19 (I, 2) Sur les Vertus. Introduction, traduction, commentaires et notes par Dominic J. O’MearaPhilosophie Antique 20 290-292. 2020.O’Meara’s translation and commentary of Ennead 19 (Sur les Vertus) is a short and elegant book: the style is sparse, the meaning limpid, and the thesis skilfully developed. The translation meticulously follows the movement of Plotinus’ argumentation. Ample cross references are made to other tractates, and helpful mentions abound of secondary literature in languages other than French. The historical sections are short: Middle Platonist antecedents of Plotinus’ theory of virtue are occasionally...
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Plotinus on metaphysics and moralityIn Svetla Slaveva-Griffin & Pauliina Remes (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Routledge. 2014.
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45Ὁμοίωσις θεῷ in the Theaetetus and in PlotinusSuzanne Stern-GilletAncient Philosophy 39 (1): 89-117. 2019.
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26Interview with Professor Paul KalligasInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 14 (1): 109-114. 2020.
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20Interview with Professor Harold TarrantInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 13 (2): 231-236. 2019.
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43Interview with Professor Gerard O’DalyInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 13 (1): 125-130. 2019.
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18Aristotle, Montaigne, Kant and the others : How friendship came to be conceived as it is conceived in the Western traditionInternational Journal of Technoethics 10 (1): 49-61. 2019.Concepts of inter-personal relations are most elusive. They conceal assumptions, norms, beliefs and various associated notions, and become even more opaque and potent when they transcend the language in which they are used and come to reflect a culture or a tradition. Escaping the critical gaze of those “in” the tradition, these concepts and their theoretical baggage remain largely alien to those outside it. This gap fosters a sense of alienation, if not of exclusion, on the part of those living…Read more
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16Review of eyjlfur kjalar Emilsson, Plotinus on Intellect (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (3). 2008.
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"The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays": Hans-Georg Gadamer (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 28 (3): 289. 1988.
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29Aristotle’s portrait of the man of great soul in both the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics has long perplexed commentators. Although his portrait of the man of small soul has been all but ignored by commentators, it, too, contains a number of claims that are profoundly counter-intuitive to the modern cast of mind. The paper is an attempt at identifying the nature of the discrepancies between Aristotle’s values and our own, and at placing the ethical claims that he makes on greatness and small…Read more
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8Reading Ancient Texts. Volume I: Presocratics and Plato: Essays in Honour of Denis O'brien (edited book)Brill. 2007.The contributors to this volume offer, in the light of specialised knowledge of leading philosophers of the ancient world, answers to the question: how are we to read and understand the surviving texts of Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Augustine?
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Reading Ancient Texts. Volume Ii: Aristotle and Neoplatonism: Essays in Honour of Denis O'brien (edited book)Brill. 2007.The contributors to this volume offer, in the light of specialised knowledge of leading philosophers of the ancient world, answers to the question: how are we to read and understand the surviving texts of Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Augustine?
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"Pictorialist Poetics: Poetry and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France": David Scott (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (3): 284. 1989.
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44Plotinus on self: The philosophy of the 'we' (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (2). 2010.Plotinus's theory of dual selfhood is one of the best-known and most puzzling aspects of his philosophy. Each human being, he held, is both a compound of body and soul and a discarnate member of the hypostasis Intellect. He built evaluative norms into this duality, all of which derive from what he argued to be the ontological superiority of the discarnate element in us over the body-soul compound. This led him, in turn, to claim that the best and happiest human life is a life of self-purificatio…Read more
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33Penner (T.), Rowe (C.) Plato's Lysis. Pp. xiv + 366. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Cased, £55, US$95. ISBN: 978-0-521-79130- (review)The Classical Review 58 (1): 64-66. 2008.
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20Plotinian Studies in the Anglophone WorldInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 12 (2): 163-177. 2018.