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

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 cont...

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Superior document:Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts
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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.
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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 Krausmüller
  • The nature of the soul according to Eriugena / Catherine Kavanagh
  • Islamic tradition
  • Aristotle's Categories and the soul : an annotated translation of al-Kindī's That there are separate substances / Peter Adamson and Peter E. Pormann
  • Private caves and public islands : Islam, Plato, and the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' / Ian Richard Netton
  • Tradition and innovation in the psychology of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī / 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.