Neoplatonic Demons and Angels (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition)

Brisson, Luc (EDT)/ O'Neill, Seamus (EDT)/ Timotin, Andrei (EDT)

Brill（2018/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 294 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004374973
• DDC分類 186.4

Full Description

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.

Contents

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