The Neo- Platonists ; a study in the history of Hellenism
THE NEO-PLATONISTS
A STUDY IN THE HISTORY OF HELLENISM
BY THOMAS WHITTAKER
SECOND EDITION WITH A SUPPLEMENT ON THE COMMENTARIES OF PROCLUS
CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1918
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I – GRAECO-ROMAN CIVILISATION IN ITS POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER II – THE STAGES OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER III – RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENTS IN LATER ANTIQUITY
CHAPTER IV – PLOTINUS AND HIS NEAREST PREDECESSORS
CHAPTER V – THE PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM OF PLOTINUS
1. PSYCHOLOGY
2. METAPHYSICS
3. COSMOLOGY AND THEODICY
4. AESTHETICS
5. ETHICS
CHAPTER VI – THE MYSTICISM OF PLOTINUS
CHAPTER VII – THE DIFFUSION OF NEO-PLATONISM
1. PORPHYRY
2. IAMBLICHUS
3. THE SCHOOL OF IAMBLICHUS
CHAPTER VIII – THE POLEMIC AGAINST CHRISTIANITY
CHAPTER IX – THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL
1. THE ACADEMY BECOMES NEO-PLATONIC
2. PROCLUS
3. THE END OF THE PLATONIC SUCCESSION
CHAPTER X – THE INFLUENCE OF NEO-PLATONISM
CHAPTER XI – CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
I. THE COMMUNISM OF PLATO
II. THE GNOSTICS
III. IAMBLICHUS AND PROCLUS ON MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
SUPPLEMENT
THE COMMENTARIES OF PROCLUS
ON THE FIRST ALCIBÍADES
ON THE PARMENIDES
ON THE TIMAEUS
ON THE REPUBLIC