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

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 236 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts
Studies in platonism, neoplatonism, and the platonic tradition, 1871-188X ; v. 9
Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts.
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 Krausmüller -- The nature of the soul according to Eriugena / Catherine Kavanagh -- Islamic tradition -- Aristotle's Categories and the soul : an annotated translation of al-Kindī's That there are separate substances / Peter Adamson and Peter E. Pormann -- Private caves and public islands : Islam, Plato, and the Ikhwān al-Ṛafā' / Ian Richard Netton -- Tradition and innovation in the psychology of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī / 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.
Summary "Plato's doctrine of the soul, its immaterial nature, its parts or faculties, and its fate after death (and before birth) came to have an enormous influence on the great religious traditions that sprang up in late antiquity, beginning with Judaism (in the person of Philo of Alexandria), and continuing with Christianity, from St. Paul on through the Alexandrian and Cappadocian Fathers to Byzantium, and finally with Islamic thinkers from Al-kindi on. This volume, while not aspiring to completeness, attempts to provide insights into how members of each of these traditions adapted Platonist doctrines to their own particular needs, with varying degrees of creativity"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Plato.
Plato.
Plato -- Influence.
Plato -- Influence.
Soul.
Soul.
Abrahamic religions.
Abrahamic religions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Elkaisy-Friemuth, Maha.
Dillon, John M.
Other Form: Print version: Afterlife of the Platonic soul. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004176232 (DLC) 2009014849 (OCoLC)318672812
ISBN 9789047429678 (electronic book)
9047429672 (electronic book)
9789004176232 (cloth)
9004176233 (cloth)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004176232.i-238