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121Hierarchy and Participation in Dionysius the Areopagite and Greek NeoplatonismAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 68 (1): 15-30. 1994.
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114The 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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105Every 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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104The Presence of the Paradigm: Immanence and Transcendence In Plato’s Theory of FormsReview of Metaphysics 53 (2). 1999.DISCUSSIONS OF THE ONTOLOGICAL STATUS of Plato’s forms too often take for granted that immanence and transcendence are opposed to each other: if the forms are in instances then they are not separate from them, while if the forms are separate then they are not in instances. This assumption is sometimes associated with the theory that there is a change in Plato’s thought between the early or Socratic dialogues, in which forms are regarded as immanent, and the middle dialogues and Timaeus, in which…Read more
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62The Living ImageProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 69 191-204. 1995.
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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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49The 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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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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46Every 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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36O'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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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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32The Enneads (review)Review of Metaphysics 48 (3): 676-678. 1995.In addition to the complete Enneads and Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, this republication of the fourth edition of MacKenna's Plotinus includes a brief foreword from the publisher, extracts from MacKenna's "Explanatory Matter in the First Edition", and two appendices: an essay titled "A Suggestive Outline of Plotinian Metaphysics," and a concor dance of the chronological and systematic orders of Plotinus' works. It also provides, at the conclusion of each treatise, selected brief passages in other…Read more
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26Lessened by Addition: Procession by Diminution in Proclus and AquinasReview of Metaphysics 72 (4): 685-716. 2019.
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24Plotinus (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (2): 399-399. 1996.This is an unusual book in that it is neither a synthetic presentation of Plotinus' thought nor an examination of a particular topic in Plotinus. It is rather, as the series title indicates, a study of Plotinus's arguments on a wide range of issues. For this reason, it would make exceptionally difficult reading for anyone who is not already familiar with Plotinus's philosophy.
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20Platonic interpretations: selected papers from the sixteenth annual conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (edited book)The Prometheus Trust, in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies. 2019.
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19Theophany: 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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18The 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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