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
• TeilnehmendeR: Elkaisy-Friemuth, Maha.; Dillon, John M.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science.; Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Plato's doctrine of the soul, its immaterial nature, its parts or faculties, and its fate after death (and before birth) came to have an enormous influence on the great religious traditions that sprang up in late antiquity, beginning with Judaism (in the person of Philo of Alexandria), and continuing with Christianity, from St. Paul on through the Alexandrian and Cappadocian Fathers to Byzantium, and finally with Islamic thinkers from Al-kindi on. This volume, while not aspiring to completeness, attempts to provide insights into how members of each of these traditions adapted Platonist doctrines to their own particular needs, with varying degrees of creativity.

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.