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

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description vi, 236 p.
Series Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 1871-188X ; v. 9
Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science.
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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 Krausmuller -- The nature of the soul according to Eriugena / Catherine Kavanagh -- Islamic tradition -- Aristotle's Categories and the soul : an annotated translation of al-Kindi's That there are separate substances / Peter Adamson and Peter E. Pormann -- Private caves and public islands : Islam, Plato, and the Ikhwan al-Safa' / Ian Richard Netton -- Tradition and innovation in the psychology of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi / 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Plato.
Plato -- Influence.
Soul.
Abrahamic religions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Elkaisy-Friemuth, Maha.
Dillon, John M.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004176232 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004176233 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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