Svetla Slaveva - Plotinus on Number [2009]

Svetla Slaveva-Griffin - Plotinus on Number, Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.

• Abbreviations
• Introduction: One by Number
• Platonic Cosmology on Plotinian Terms
• Ennead VI.6 and the Timaeus
• Origin of Multiplicity in Plotinus
• Plotinus’ Apostasis and Numenius’ Stasis
• The Universe as Degrees of Separation from the One
• Multiplicity as Number
• Surfacing from the “Neopythagorean Underground”
• Outward and Inward Direction of Multiplicity in Ennead VI.6
• Multiplicity as Effl uence and Unity
• The Number of Infi nity
• Plato’s Position
• Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato and the Platonists
• Plotinus’ Answer
• Number and Substance
• Plotinus’ Three Hypotheses about Number in the Intelligible Realm
• Is Substantial Number Discrete and Incidental?
• The Whole Number of Beings
• Substantial and Monadic Number
• Number and the Universe
• Substantial Number and the One
• Substantial Number and Absolute Being
• Substantial Number and Intellect
• Substantial Number and Beings
• Substantial Number and the Complete
• Living Being
• Soul and Number
• The Unfi gured Figure of Soul’s Dance
• Unity of Thought and Writing
• Porphyry and the Enneads
• Ennead VI.6
• “Six Along with the Nines”
• Conclusion: In Defense of Plato
• Bibliography
• Index of Names and Subjects
• Index Locorum
  

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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine [2001]

• Introduction
• Augustine
• Faith and reason
• Augustine on evil and original sin
• Predestination, Pelagianism, and foreknowledge
• Biblical interpretation
• The divine nature
• De Trinitate
• Time and creation in Augustine
• Augustine’s theory of soul
• Augustine on free will
• Augustine’s philosophy of memory
• The response to skepticism and the mechanisms of cognition
• Knowledge and illumination
• Augustine’s philosophy of language
• Augustine’s ethics
• Augustine’s political philosophy
• Augustine and medieval philosophy
• Post-medieval Augustinianism
• Bibliography
  

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Thomas Hubbard - Homosexuality in Greece and Rome [2003]

Thomas K. Hubbard - Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents, University of California Press, 2003.

• Translation Credits
• Preface
• Introduction
• Archaic Greek Lyric
• Greek Historical Texts
• Greek comedy
• Greek Oratory
• Greek Philosophy
• Hellenistic poetry
• Republican Rome
• Augustan Rome
• Early Imperial Rome
• Later Greco-Roman Antiquity
• Works Cited
• Index

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