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    The Prooimion and the Skopos : Proclus' Commentary of the Alcibiades I
    In Eleni Kaklamanou, Maria Pavlou & Antonis Tsakmakis (eds.), Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato, Brill. pp. 263-280. 2020.
  • Action, reasoning and the highest good
    In Svetla Slaveva-Griffin & Pauliina Remes (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Routledge. 2014.
  • Neoplatonism today
    In Svetla Slaveva-Griffin & Pauliina Remes (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Routledge. 2014.
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    In the Timaeus, human bodies are treated as homeostatic systems, striving to maintain their natural state. This striving constitutes Plato’s explanatory framework for perception: perceptions come about when the equilibrium is shaken, and when it is restored. The article makes two main suggestions: first, that experienced pleasure and pain are grounded in non-experiential departures from and restorations of the natural state. Second, that the striving to maintain the natural state grounds percept…Read more
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    Neoplatonism
    University of California Press. 2008.
    Although Neoplatonism has long been studied, until recently many had dismissed this complex system of ideas as more mystical than philosophical. Recent research, however, has provided a new perspective on this highly influential school of thought, which flourished in the pagan world of Greece and Rome up through late antiquity. Pauliina Remes's lucid, comprehensive, and up-to-date introduction reassesses Neoplatonism's philosophical credentials, from its founding by Plotinus through the closure …Read more
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    Plotinus on Starting Points of Reasoning
    Chôra 14 29-57. 2016.
    Plotinus treats certain pre‑philosophical concepts as reliable or promising starting‑points for philosophical study. This article studies the way in which he, in the act of philosophizing, conceives of the passage from an unclear understanding, a kind of pre‑concept, to a better, philosophical conception. What are the sources of this passage? What is the role of data given by sense‑perception? In what way are innate conceptual and cognitive capacities involved? It will be argued that the methodo…Read more
  • The Neoplatonic Sage: An Inner State of Virtue and Its Outward Manifestations (review)
    Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 52 (3): 777-782. 2005.
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    Plotinus's ethics of disinterested interest
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 44 (1): 1-23. 2006.
    Plotinus' recognises the possibility of conflict between self-referential aims and the good of the kosmos. His solution resembles closely one attributed sometimes to the Stoics. The inner reformation Plotinus proposes will yield a detached understanding of the whole universe. This view is accompanied by a realisation that one's happiness lies in functioning as a part of the whole and in contributing to the perfection of the universe. Other-regard cannot, therefore, be seen as altogether missing …Read more
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    This collection represents the first historical survey focusing on the notion of consciousness. It approaches consciousness through its constitutive aspects, such as subjectivity, reflexivity, intentionality and selfhood. Covering discussions from ancient philosophy all the way to contemporary debates, the book enriches current systematic debates by uncovering historical roots of the notion of consciousness.
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    Inwardness and infinity of selfhood: From Plotinus to Augustine
    In Pauliina Remes & Juha Sihvola (eds.), Ancient Philosophy of the Self, Springer. pp. 155--176. 2008.
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    Plotinus on Intellect, by Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson (review)
    Mind 118 (471): 820-823. 2009.
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    Partnership of citizens and metics: the will of Epicurus
    with M. Leiwo
    Classical Quarterly 49 (01): 161-166. 1999.
    The law of Athens prohibited any but full citizens from owning land or houses. Thus the law also impeded the bequeathing of real property to those who were not citizens. This law seemed to preclude those who were the real backbone of the trading and banking businesses from owning land and, therefore, from lending and borrowing by using it as a security
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    Lloyd P. Gerson, ed. The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity. Vols. 1 and 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+1284. £150.00 (review)
    Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 3 (2): 376-380. 2013.
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    The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in ancient philosophy. An international team of scholars situates and re-evaluates Neoplatonism within the history of ancient philosophy and thought, and explores its influence on philosophical and religious schools worldwide. Over thirty chapters are divided into seven clear parts: sources, instruction and interaction M…Read more
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    Plotinus on Self: The Philosophy of the 'We'
    Cambridge University Press. 2007.
    Plotinus, the founder of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy, conceptualises two different notions of self : the corporeal and the rational. Personality and imperfection mark the former, while goodness and a striving for understanding mark the latter. In this text, Dr Remes grounds the two selfhoods in deep-seated Platonic ontological commitments, following their manifestations, interrelations and sometimes uneasy coexistence in philosophical psychology, emotional therapy and ethics. Plotinus' …Read more
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    Ancient philosophy of the self
    with Juha Sihvola
    Springer. 2008.
    This collection studies the various ways and conceptual frameworks with which the ancients approached selfhood.