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JUST/CLAS/RELG 3022 and PHIL 3729: Searching for God: Week 6: Late Antique Philosophy
Ancient Greeks, Jews, and Christians
Topic of the week
Topic: Late Antique Philosophy: Plotinus, the Neoplatonists, and the Peripatetics
Primary Sources: Late Antique Philosophy
- Plotinus ennead (5.1.4-8, 5.2.1, 5.3.9, 5.3.12Gerson, L. P., & Plotinus (2010). Plotinus ennead v.5 : That the intelligibles are not external to the intellect, and on the good. Parmenides Publishing.
- The complete works of Aristotle (On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias (esp. chapters 3-4 on God))Barnes, & Aristotle. (2014). The complete works of Aristotle: the revised Oxford translation. Princeton University Press.
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Secondary Sources: Late Antique Philosophy
- NeoplatonismWildberg, Christian, "Neoplatonism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
- PlotinusGerson, Lloyd, "Plotinus", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
Plotinus in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ISSN 2161-0002
Optional Readings: Late Antique Philosophy
- Comparatism in the Neoplatonic Pantheon of Late Antiquity: Damascius, DePrinc. ill 15g.6-16y.25.Mihai, A. (2014). Comparatism in the Neoplatonic Pantheon of Late Antiquity: Damascius, De Princ. III 159.6-167.25. Numen: International Review for the History of Religions, 61(5/6), 457–483. https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1163/15685276-12341338
- Plotinus and the presocratics : A philosophical study of presocratic influences in plotinus' enneadsStamatellos, G. (2007). Plotinus and the presocratics : A philosophical study of presocratic influences in plotinus' enneads. State University of New York Press.
- Chapter 3 Plotinus [pdf]Louth, Andrew. (2007) Chapter 3 Plotinus In The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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