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11Wolfson, HA Repercussions of the Kalam in Jewish Philosophy (Cam-bridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979)In Daniel H. Frank & Oliver Leaman (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 449. 2003.
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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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9A 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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46Interview with Professor John M. DillonInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 12 (2): 197-202. 2018.
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10Plotin, 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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19Interview with Professor Paul KalligasInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 14 (1): 109-114. 2020.
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18Interview with Professor Harold TarrantInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 13 (2): 231-236. 2019.
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42Interview 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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57Ὁμοίωσις θεῷ in the Theaetetus and in PlotinusSuzanne Stern-GilletAncient Philosophy 39 (1): 89-117. 2019.
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16The personality and the writings of Marsilio Ficino mark the turning point from the middleages to the Renaissance. In John Marenbon’s apt description, medieval philosophy is ‘the story of a complex tradition founded in Neoplatonism, but not simply as a continuation or development of Neoplatonism itself’. ‘Not simply’ because the Enneads, the first and finest flowering of that tradition, testify to Plotinus’ deep engagement, not only with the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and the Middle…Read more
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19Plotinian Studies in the Anglophone WorldInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 12 (2): 163-177. 2018.
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14Introductions Aux Dialogues De Platon Et Leçons D'Histoire De La Philosophie , Suivies Des Textes De Friedrich Schlegel Relatifs À Platon, by F.D.E. Schleiermacher (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 38 (2): 221-223. 2007.
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13Agathon Redivivus: love and incorporeal beauty: Ficino's De Amore, Speech VProceedings of the British Academy. 2018.The personality and the writings of Marsilio Ficino mark the turning point from the middleages to the Renaissance. In John Marenbon’s apt description, medieval philosophy is ‘the story of a complex tradition founded in Neoplatonism, but not simply as a continuation or development of Neoplatonism itself’. ‘Not simply’ because the Enneads, the first and finest flowering of that tradition, testify to Plotinus’ deep engagement, not only with the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and the Middle…Read more
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52An Interview with Kevin CorriganInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 12 (1): 103-110. 2018.
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23Book review: Ennead iv.8: On the Descent of the Soul into Bodies, written by Plotinus (review)International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 8 (2): 234-236. 2014.
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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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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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46Le 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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37An Interview with Professor E.K. EmilssonInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 11 (2): 247-252. 2017.
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28Aristotle’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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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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