Neoplatonic Demons and Angels

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37497-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Band 20, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition

Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of eleven studies which examine, in chronological order, the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers (Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus), but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles, Christian Neoplatonism, especially by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. This volume originates from a panel held at the 2014 ISNS meeting in Lisbon, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brisson, Luc

O'Neill, Seamus

Timotin, Andrei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Introduction

The Daimon and the Choice of Life in Plotinus’ Thought
Thomas Vidart

The Angels in Ancient Gnosis: Some Cases
Madeleine Scopello

Demons and Angels in the Chaldaean Oracles
Helmut Seng

What is a Daimon for Porphyry?
Luc Brisson

Porphyry on the Daimon, Birth and the Stars
Dorian G. Greenbaum

Daimones in Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs
Nilufer Akcay

Evil Demons in De Mysteriis
Assessing the Iamblichean Critique of Porphyry’s Demonology
Seamus O’Neill

Proclus’ Critique of Plotinus’ Demonology
Andrei Timotin

The Angels in Proclus: Messengers of the Gods
Luc Brisson

Ontology, Henadology, Angelology
The Neoplatonic Roots of Angelic Hierarchy
Ghislain Casas

Dionysius the Areopagite on Angels
Self-Constitution versus Constituting Gifts
Marilena Vlad

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Luc Brisson is Senior Researcher (Emeritus) at CNRS, Paris. His works include How Philosophers Saved Myths (Chicago, 2004); Plato the Myth Maker (Chicago, 1999); Inventing the Universe, with W. Meyerstein (New York, 1995); Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Berkeley, 2002), and translations and commentaries on Plato, Plotinus, Iamblichus, and Proclus.

Seamus O’Neill is Associate Professor at The Memorial University of Newfoundland. His publications include “The Demonic Body: Demonic Ontology and the Domicile of the Demons in Apuleius and Augustine,” in Philosophical Approaches to Demonology, ed. R. Arp and B. McCraw (Routledge, 2017). He is currently completing a monograph on St. Augustine’s demonology.

Andrei Timotin is Senior Researcher at the Romanian Academy (ISEES). His publications include La démonologie platonicienne. Histoire de la notion de daimon de Platon aux derniers néoplatoniciens (Brill, 2012); Platonic Theories of Prayer, with John Dillon (Brill, 2016); and La prière dans la tradition platonicienne, de Platon à Proclus (Brepols, 2017).