Significance of Neoplatonism

R. Baine Harris is Eminent Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Old Dominion University. He is the editor of Authority: A Philosophical Analysis, and The Structure of Being: A Neoplatonic Approach and Neoplatonism and Indian Thought, both published by SUNY Press.

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• PrefaceJohn Anton A Brief Description of NeoplatonismR. Baine Harris PART ONE: THE SOURCE OF NEOPLATONISM 1. The Neoplatonism of PlatoJ.N. Findlay 2. Plotinus' Adaptation of Aristotle's Psychology, Sensation, Imagination and MemoryHenry J. Blumenthal 3. Iamblichus, Thrasyllus, and the Reading order of the Platonic DialoguesMichael Dunn PART TWO: THE INTERPRETATION OF NEOPLATONISM 1. Plotinus' Approach to Categorical TheoryJohn P. Anton 2. Chorismos and Emanation in the Philosophy of PlotinusJohn H. Fielder 3. NOYE as ExperienceRichard T. Wallis 4. Philological Comments on the Neoplatonic Notion of InfinityJohn Whittaker 5. The Neoplatonic 'One' and the Trinitarian 'APXH'J. Patrick Atherton 6. The Apprehension of Divinity in the Self and Cosmos in PlotinusA. Hilary Armstrong 7. Is Plotinian Mysticism MonisticPlato Mamo 8. Plotinus and Moral ObligationJohn M. Rist 9. Dynamic Structuralism in the Plotinian Theory of the ImaginaryEvanghelos Moustsopoulos 10. Image, Symbol and Analogy: Three Basic Concepts of Neoplatonic Allegorical ExegesisJohn Dillon PART THREE: THE INFLUENCE OF NEOPLATONISM 1. Marius Victorinus Afer, Porphyry and the History of PhilosophyMary T. Clark 2. Schelling's Neoplatonic System-Notation, 'Ineinsbildung' and Temporal UnfoldingMichael G. Vater 3. The Problem of Ordered Chaos in Whitehead and PlotinusDavid F. T. Rodier 4. Plotinus and Sartre, An Ontological Investigation of Being-Other-ThanJohn N. Deck 5. Paul Elmer More and NeoplatonismK. W. Harrington Contributors Index of Proper Names