Literary, philosophical, and religious studies in the Platonic tradition

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This anthology contains twelve papers on various aspects of Platonism, ranging from Plato's Republic to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus and Hermias, to the use of Platonic philosophy by Cudworth and Schleiermacher. The papers cover topics in ethics, psychology, religion, poetics, art, epistemology, and metaphysics. From the Contents: Ecstasy Between Divine and Human: Re-assessing Agency in Iamblichean Divination and Theurgy (Crystal Addey) · Soul's Desire and the Origin of Time in the Philosophy of Plotinus (José Baracat) · Providence et liberté chez Jamblique de Chalcis (Jean-Michel Charrue) · Sleep and Waking in Plotinus (Bernard Collette) · The Spiritual Body. Porphyry's Theory of the ochêma in Ralph Cudworth's True Intellectual System of the Universe (Anna Corrias) · Iamblichus' Doctrine of the Soul Revisited (John Dillon) · The Distorted City in the Republic (Gary Gurtler) · Proclus on the Cognitive Value of Mythic Poetry. A Hegelian Reading (Oiva Kuisma) · Neoplatonic Allegories in Hermias (Christina-Panagiota Manolea) · The Splendor of Grace: Plotinus and the Cistercian Tradition (Martino Rossi Monti) · The Reception of Schleiermacher's View on Plato in 19th Century Poland (Tomaz Mroz) · The Nature of Art and the Art of Nature in Plotinus (Michael Wagner)