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The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul : Reflections of Platonic Psychology in the Monotheistic Religions.
Title:
The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul : Reflections of Platonic Psychology in the Monotheistic Religions.
Author:
El-Kaisy, Maha.
ISBN:
9789047429678
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (248 pages)
Series:
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; v.9

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- A. EARLY PERIOD -- Philo of Alexandria and Platonist Psychology (John Dillon) -- St Paul on Soul, Spirit and the Inner Man (George H. van Kooten) -- B. CHRISTIAN TRADITION -- Faith and Reason in Late Antiquity: The Perishability Axiom and Its Impact on Christian Views about the Origin and Nature of the Soul (Dirk Krausmüller) -- The Nature of the Soul According to Eriugena (Catherine Kavanagh) -- C. ISLAMIC TRADITION -- Aristotle's Categories and the Soul: An Annotated Translation of al-Kindï's That There are Separate Substances (Peter Adamson and Peter E. Pormann) -- Private Caves and Public Islands: Islam, Plato and the Ikhwän al-Safä (Ian Richard Netton) -- Tradition and Innovation in the Psychology of Fakhr al-Dïn al-Räzï (Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth) -- D. JUDAIC TRADITION -- The Soul in Jewish Neoplatonism: A Case Study of Abraham Ibn Ezra and Judah Halevi (Aaron W. Hughes) -- Maimonides, the Soul and the Classical Tradition (Oliver Leaman) -- E. LATER MEDIEVAL PERIOD -- St. Thomas Aquinas's Concept of the Human Soul and the Influence of Platonism (Patrick Quinn) -- Intellect as Intrinsic Formal Cause in the Soul according to Aquinas and Averroes (Richard C. Taylor) -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Concepts and Places.
Abstract:
This volume of essays presents a selection of studies in the ways in which Platonist psychology is adapted to the needs of thinkers in the three great religious traditions of later antiquity, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The authors are all acknowledged experts in their own fields, as well as being familiar with the Platonic tradition.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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