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Late Antique Epistemology 9780230_527423_01_prexii.indd i 12/23/2008 5:05:22 PM Also by Stephen R. L. Clark A PARLIAMENT OF SOULS ANIMALS AND THEIR MORAL STANDING ARISTOTLE’S MAN BIOLOGY AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS CIVIL PEACE AND SACRED ORDER FROM ATHENS TO JERUSALEM G. K. CHESTERTON: THINKING BACKWARDS, LOOKING FORWARDS GOD, RELIGION AND REALITY GOD’S WORLD AND THE GREAT AWAKENING HOW TO LIVE FOREVER HOW TO THINK ABOUT THE EARTH: MODELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL THEOLOGY THE MORAL STATUS OF ANIMALS THE MYSTERIES OF RELIGION THE NATURE OF THE BEAST THE POLITICAL ANIMAL 9780230_527423_01_prexii.indd ii 12/23/2008 5:05:22 PM Late Antique Epistemology Other Ways to Truth Edited by Panayiota Vassilopoulou and Stephen R. L. Clark University of Liverpool 9780230_527423_01_prexii.indd iii 12/23/2008 5:05:22 PM Selection and editorial matter © Panayiota Vassilopoulou and Stephen R. L. Clark 2009 Chapters © their individual authors 2009 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN-13: 978–0–230–52742–3 hardback ISBN-10: 0–230–52742–6 hardback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne 9780230_527423_01_prexii.indd iv 12/23/2008 5:05:22 PM Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Abbreviations viii Notes on Contributors x Introduction Panayiota Vassilopoulou 1 Part I Rituals, Religion and Reality 19 1. Porphyry and the Debate Over Traditional Religious Practices 21 Aude Busine 2. St John in Amelius’ Seminar 30 John Dillon 3. Eternal Time and Temporal Expansion: Proclus’ Golden Ratio 44 Emilie F. Kutash 4. Having Sex with the One: Erotic Mysticism in Plotinus and the Problem of Metaphor 67 Zeke Mazur Part II Crossing Boundaries 85 5. Ibn T(cid:2)ufayl and the Wisdom of the East: On Apprehending the Divine 87 Taneli Kukkonen 6. Plotinus, Porphyry, and India: A Re-Examination 103 Joachim Lacrosse 7. Animation of Statues in Ancient Civilizations and Neoplatonism 118 Algis Uzdavinys v 9780230_527423_01_prexii.indd v 12/23/2008 5:05:22 PM vi Table of Contents Part III Art and Poetry 141 8. Platonists and the Teaching of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity 143 Malcolm Heath 9. Proclus’ Notion of Poetry 160 Oiva Kuisma 10. The Homeric Tradition in Ammonius and Asclepius 174 Christina-Panagiota Manolea Part IV Later Influences 189 11. Nous and Geist: Self-Identity and Methodological Solipsism in Plotinus and Hegel 191 Robert M. Berchman 12. Μεστὰ πάντα σημείων. Plotinus, Leibniz, and Berkeley on Determinism 211 Daniele Bertini 13. Proclus Americanus 228 Jay Bregman 14. Ecology’s Future Debt to Plotinus and Neoplatonism 250 Kevin Corrigan 15. Heathen Martyrs or Romish Idolaters: Socrates and Plato in Eighteenth-Century England 273 Carol Poster Conclusion 289 Stephen R.L. Clark Glossary 302 Prepared by Crystal Addey Index of Names 331 Subject Index 339 9780230_527423_01_prexii.indd vi 12/23/2008 5:05:22 PM Acknowledgments This volume has its beginning in the conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies held in Liverpool in the summer of 2004. We are grateful to all those who participated in that event, and to the institutions that made it possible, including the Society itself, the Brit- ish Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Classical Association, Liverpool’s Department of Philosophy, and the University of Liverpool. The Lever- hulme Trust also provided for Dr Vassilopoulou’s eighteen-month appointment first as a Research Fellow and then as Lecturer, and Profes- sor Clark’s three-year appointment as a Research Fellow, without which this volume would have been delayed for even longer. We are also grateful to the Academy of Finland for support for Dr Vassilopoulou’s present research, and to the University of Liverpool for allowing Pro- fessor Clark further leave to recover from illness. We also acknowledge the advice, sympathy, and forbearance shown by Gillian Clark and Elias Markolefas, as well as the many scholars who gave their time to review- ing individual papers and the whole volume. We owe special thanks to Eudoxie Delli for her help, to Crystal Addey for producing the Glossary, and to both our publisher and the contributors to this volume for their patience. The diagram on page 246 from T.M. Johnson’s book Proclus’ Metaphysical Elements (1909) is reproduced with permission and was kindly provided by Karen Witt, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Missouri. vii 9780230_527423_01_prexii.indd vii 12/23/2008 5:05:22 PM Abbreviations Adv. Haer. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses Adv. Jov. Jeronimus, Adversus Jovinianum Ap. Jn. Apocryphon of John Arist. Rhet. Aristotle, Rhetoric BD Book of the Dead Bell. Iud. Flavius Josephus, De Bello Judaico Bibl. hist Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica CAG Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca Civ. Dei Augustine, De Civitate Dei CPR Critique of Pure Reason De abstin. Porphyry, De Abstinentia De decem. dub. Proclus, De Decem Dubitationes Circa Providentiam De Myst. Iamblichus, De Mysteriis Dem. Ep. Demosthenes, Epistulae Diog. Laert., Vit. Diogenes Laertius, Vitae Philosophorum Diss. Epictetus, Dissertationes El. of Theol. Proclus, Elements of Theology Enn. Plotinus, Enneads Ep. Pliny, Epistulae Ep. Ad Aneb. Porphyry, Epistula ad Anebonem FGrH Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Flor. Apuleius, Florilegium Geogr. Strabo, Geographica Gorg. Plato, Gorgias Id. Hermogenes, Peri Ideon IG Inscriptiones Graecae Il. Ilias In Cat. Ammonius, In Aristotelis Categorias Commentarius In de Int. Ammonius, In Aristotelis Librum de Interpretatione Commentarius In Isag. In Porphyrii Isagogen In Met. Asclepius, In Aristotelis Metaphysicorum Libros A–Z Commentaria In Metaph. Syrianus, In Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria In Nic. Asclepius of Tralles, Commentary to Nicomachus’ Introduction to Arithmetic. viii 9780230_527423_01_prexii.indd viii 12/23/2008 5:05:23 PM Abbreviations ix In Parm. Proclus, In Platonis Parmenidem Commentarii In Phlb. Damascius, In Philebum In Remp. Proclus, In Rem Publicam Comentarii In Tim. or In Plat. Tim. Proclus, In Platonis Timaeum Commentarii Instit. Phys. Proclus, Institutio Physica Jul.Ep. Flavius Claudius Julianus, Epistulae Leid. Leiden Papyrus Lys. Plato, Lysis Med. Descartes, Meditations Met. Aristotle, Metaphysics Meth. Hermogenes, Peri Methodou Mor. Plutarchi Moralia NHC Nag Hammadi Codices Od. Odyssea Or. Chald. Chaldaean Oracles Phaedr. Hermias, In Platonis Phaedrum Scholia Phys. Aristotle, Physics Plat. Th. Proclus, Platonic Theology Plat. Plato Plut. Plutarchus Plut. Dem. Plutarchus, Demosthenes Porph., VPlot. Porphyry, Vita Plotini Post. An. Aristotle, Posterior Analytics Prep. Ev. Preparatio Evangelica Procl. Proclus Prol. David, Prolegomena Philosophiae PS Prolegomenon Sylloge PT Pyramid Texts Quint. Quintilian Quod omn. prob. Philo, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit Rep. Plato, Republic RG Rhetores Graeci Sch. Dem. Scholia to Demosthenes Simpl. Phys. Symplicius, Aristotelis Physicorum Libros Commentaria Stas. Hermogenes, Peri Staseon Stom. Clemens of Alexandria, Stromata SVF Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta Symp. Plato, Symposium Tac. Dial Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus Tim. Plato, Timaeus Vit. Apoll. Philostratus, Vita Apollonii 9780230_527423_01_prexii.indd ix 12/23/2008 5:05:23 PM
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