Passionate Mind: Essays in Honor of John M. Rist

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by  Barry David (editor)

Barry David [ed.]
Passionate Mind
Essays in Honor of John M. Rist
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Essays in Honor of John M. Rist
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Passionate Mind
Essays in Honor of John M. Rist
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Acknowledgements
Many persons, institutions and organizations have made this volume’s
publication possible. To begin with, exceptional gratitude is offered to each
of Passionate Mind’s contributors not only for their entries but also for their
great patience and co-operation in overcoming a number of challenges en-
countered along the way. Concerning these matters, I am especially appre-
ciative for the help I received from Dr. Edward Halper. Special thanks is
also directed to those institutions, organizations and individuals that have
facilitated this volume by their generous financial support. In this regard,
gratitude is expressed not only to those mentioned above but also to the
Department of Classics at the University of Toronto (particularly to Dr.
Jonathan Burgess), the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of
Toronto (especially to Dr. Isabelle Cochelin) and anonymous donors. Fi-
nally, considerable thanks is extended to the publishing team at Nomos,
Academia/Verlag, in particular to Dr. Steffen Burk and Ms. Alexandra
Beutelmann, for their immense help in bringing this volume to fruition,
and to some anonymous readers for their insightful comments at an earlier
juncture in this project’s development.
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Passionate Mind’s Contributors (listed in alphabetical order):
1.) Luigi Alici:
Via Mazzini 11,
I-63844, Grottazzolina (FM),
Italy.
[email protected]
Luigi Alici earned his Ph.D. (Philosophy) in 1973 at the University of Peru-
gia where he subsequently served as Research Fellow (1973–1980), Perma-
nent Researcher (1980–1988), and Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy
(1988–1995) in the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences. In 1995, he
was appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Macera-
ta, Department of Humanistic Studies. His research activity arises from a
re-reading of St. Augustine’s thought in conjunction with contemporary
philosophical issues. In this respect, his scholarly work focuses on the rela-
tionship between interiority and intentionality, and communication and
action, paying increasing attention, from the perspective of morality, to
topics like the connection between personal identity, relationality, reci-
procity, and affective bonds.

2.) Giovanni Catapano:
Via Achille Grandi 8,
I-33170, Pordenone (PN),
Italy.
[email protected]
Giovanni Catapano is Associate Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the
University of Padua. His research focuses especially on Augustine, and he
has authored the following books: L'idea di filosofia in Agostino, Guida bibli-
ografica (Il Poligrafo, 2000); Il concetto di filosofia nei primi scritti di Agostino,
Analisi dei passi metafilosofici dal Contra Academicos al De uera religione
(Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2001)—which was awarded the
Prize of the Pontifical Academies in 2005; and Agostino (Carocci, 2010). Dr.
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Catapano has also translated into Italian and commented on Plotinus' trea-
tise On Virtues (Pisa University Press, 2006), with a foreword by John Rist.

3.) Barry David:
Ave Maria University,
5050 Ave Maria Boulevard,
Ave Maria, Florida, 34142–9505,
USA.
[email protected]
Barry David is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair Emeritus of the
Philosophy Department at Ave Maria University. He has written several ar-
ticles on medieval philosophy, ranging from Augustine to Aquinas, and on
related topics in ethics and metaphysics. Dr. David is co-editor of Aquinas
the Augustinian (2007) and author of Pursuing and Praising God; Augustine’s
Confessions (2019). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto
(2000); his dissertation supervisor was John Rist.

4.) John Dillon:
Katounia, Thormanby Road,
Baily, Howth,
Dublin, D13YD71,
Ireland.
[email protected]
Born 15 Sept. 1939, in Madison Wisc. (USA), he was educated at Oxford
(B.A., M.A.), and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., The Frag-
ments of Iamblichus’ Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato). He was on the
faculty of the Department of Classics at UC Berkeley, 1969–80 (Chair of
Department 1977–80); and was Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin, 1980–2006. Dr. Dillon’s main focus of research is Plato and
the Platonic tradition. His chief works are The Middle Platonists, 1977 (2nd
edn. 1996); Iamblichus, De Anima (with John Finamore), 2000; Alcinous: The
Handbook of Platonism (1993); The Heirs of Plato (2003); and three volumes
of collected essays.
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Passionate Mind’s Contributors (listed in alphabetical order)
5.) Lloyd Gerson:
77 Quaker Village Drive,
Usbridge, Ontario,
L9P 1A3,
Canada.
[email protected]
Lloyd Gerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of many books,
articles, and reviews, mainly on ancient philosophy. Dr. Gerson’s most re-
cent work is Plotinus: The Enneads, edited by Lloyd P. Gerson, with transla-
tions by George Boys-Stones, John M. Dillon, Lloyd P. Gerson, R.A.H.
King, Andrew Smith, and James Wilberding.

6.) Edward Halper:
126 Henderson Ave.,
Athens, GA 30605,
USA.
[email protected]
Edward C. Halper is Distinguished Research Professor and Josiah Meigs
Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia. Much of
his work is on Aristotle, particularly the Metaphysics, but he has also writ-
ten on Plato and in a wide variety of other areas. Dr. Halper counts himself
extremely fortunate to have worked on Plato with John Rist at the Univer-
sity of Toronto. He is also President of the International Plato Society.

7.) Miles Hollingworth:
Villa Miralago,
Via G. Finali 31,
Valsolda (Como), I-22010,
Italy.
[email protected]
Miles Hollingworth (Ph.D., Durham), an independent scholar living in
Northern Italy, is the author of: The Pilgrim City (Bloomsbury, 2010); Saint
Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography (Oxford University Press,
2013); Inventing Socrates (Bloomsbury, 2015); and Ludwig Wittgenstein (Ox-
ford University Press, 2018). Additionally, he is the founder and editor of
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