The afterlife of the Platonic soul : reflections of Platonic psychology in the monotheistic religions / / edited by Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth and John M. Dillon.

• Superior document: Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Elkaisy-Friemuth, Maha.; Dillon, John M.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science.; Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 9.
• Physical Description: vi, 236 p.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Early period -- Philo of Alexandria and Platonist psychology / John Dillon -- St. Paul on soul, spirit, and the inner man / George H. van Kooten -- 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 Krausmuller -- The nature of the soul according to Eriugena / Catherine Kavanagh -- Islamic tradition -- Aristotle's Categories and the soul : an annotated translation of al-Kindi's That there are separate substances / Peter Adamson and Peter E. Pormann -- Private caves and public islands : Islam, Plato, and the Ikhwan al-Safa' / Ian Richard Netton -- Tradition and innovation in the psychology of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi / Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth -- 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 -- 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.