Platonism and its Legacy

Edited by John F. Finamore and Tomáš Nejeschleba. This anthology of 23 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 2017 annual conference. Contents include: Why the Intelligibles are not Outside the Intellect - Lloyd Gerson. The Causality of the First Principle and the theory of Two Activities in Plotinus Enn. V.4 [7] 13 - Andrei Timotin. "Our concern, though, is not to be out of sin, but to be god:" Assimilation to god according to Plotinus - Thomas Vidart. Eros as Soul’s ‘Eye’ in Plotinus: What does it see and not see? - Lela Alexidze. Eternity and Time in Porphyry, Sentence 44 - Lenka Karfíková. Gender construction and social connections in Porphyry’s Ad Marcellam - Mathilde Cambron-Goulet. What kind of souls did Proclus discover? - Svetlana Messiats. Is self-knowledge one or multiple? Consciousness in ‘Simplicius’, Commentary on On the Soul - Chiara M