Platonic Interpretations

Edited by John F. Finamore and Eric D. Perl. This anthology of 11 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies. It contains many of the papers presented in their 2018 annual conference. Contents include: Alcibiades, the Bad Lover: A Defense of the Ethics of Plato’s Erotic Philosophy - Elizabeth Hill. Plato’s Cosmology: Conflicting Theories - George Latura. Origen of Alexandria: Spheres, Squares and Other Abstract Objects - Robert M. Berchman. Foundations of Ecology in Plotinus’ Neoplatonism - Michael F. Wagner. Iamblichus's Theory of Divination (μαντική) and Divine Inspiration: Nature and the Case of Hydromancy at Claros - Andrea-Maria Lemnaru-Carrez. The Quarrel Between Porphyry and Iamblichus on the Ochema-Pneuma and the Purification of the Soul - Julio Cesar Moreira. Hermias on the Vehicle of the Soul - John F. Finamore. Nobility of the Complex: Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist Exposition on the Medieval Pr