Dominic J. O’Meara
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199285532
- eISBN:
- 9780191717819
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199285532.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
This chapter discusses the curriculum of texts stipulated in the Late Antique Neoplatonic schools as the material to be studied for the purpose of ascending the scales of virtue and sciences. The ...
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This chapter discusses the curriculum of texts stipulated in the Late Antique Neoplatonic schools as the material to be studied for the purpose of ascending the scales of virtue and sciences. The texts of Aristotle and Plato thought to correspond to political virtue and political science are identified, as are other texts related to these subjects. This produces a Neoplatonic ‘library’ of texts thought by Neoplatonic philosophers to relate to political philosophy.Less
This chapter discusses the curriculum of texts stipulated in the Late Antique Neoplatonic schools as the material to be studied for the purpose of ascending the scales of virtue and sciences. The texts of Aristotle and Plato thought to correspond to political virtue and political science are identified, as are other texts related to these subjects. This produces a Neoplatonic ‘library’ of texts thought by Neoplatonic philosophers to relate to political philosophy.
Henry Chadwick
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198265498
- eISBN:
- 9780191682896
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198265498.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies, Philosophy of Religion
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born into one of the powerful landed families of senatorial rank in fifth-century Italy. Through being taken into Symmachus's household, the young Boethius was ...
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born into one of the powerful landed families of senatorial rank in fifth-century Italy. Through being taken into Symmachus's household, the young Boethius was brought to a milieu of power and of high culture. Boethius held Symmachus in the utmost awe and affection. Symmachus would naturally have led Boethius on the course of assimilating the highest culture available in the Greek world of his time, in the Greek Neoplatonic schools. In September 1522, Boethius took up the important administrative post of Master of the Offices. Reaction against the Christianizing interpretation of the Consolation of Philosophy, and against the natural Catholic desire to claim so great a man among the Church's confessors, has led to an equally distorted opinion that there was no religious ingredient at all in the tensions that cost Boethius his life.Less
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born into one of the powerful landed families of senatorial rank in fifth-century Italy. Through being taken into Symmachus's household, the young Boethius was brought to a milieu of power and of high culture. Boethius held Symmachus in the utmost awe and affection. Symmachus would naturally have led Boethius on the course of assimilating the highest culture available in the Greek world of his time, in the Greek Neoplatonic schools. In September 1522, Boethius took up the important administrative post of Master of the Offices. Reaction against the Christianizing interpretation of the Consolation of Philosophy, and against the natural Catholic desire to claim so great a man among the Church's confessors, has led to an equally distorted opinion that there was no religious ingredient at all in the tensions that cost Boethius his life.
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226075358
- eISBN:
- 9780226075389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226075389.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
This chapter explains the induction of a spiritual genealogy by Proclus of the movement of which he was a part, the Platonic Theology. Here he was required to realize the project of the Neoplatonic ...
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This chapter explains the induction of a spiritual genealogy by Proclus of the movement of which he was a part, the Platonic Theology. Here he was required to realize the project of the Neoplatonic School of Athens. Plato was a theologian and this was the postulate on which the School of Athens was based. This school looked upon Plato's work as a “sacred text” revealing, though in a different mode, the same truth that was revealed in other “sacred writings,” particularly those of Orpheus and the Chaldeans. Proclus sought systematic agreement between Plato, Pythagoras, Orpheus, and the Chaldean Oracles, and used words associated with the mysteries to write about them. According to Proclus, Hesoid should be fused to a certain extent with Homer and his own aim was to organize the life of his school, its curriculum, and the production of its works, to keep the spiritual vitality of paganism.Less
This chapter explains the induction of a spiritual genealogy by Proclus of the movement of which he was a part, the Platonic Theology. Here he was required to realize the project of the Neoplatonic School of Athens. Plato was a theologian and this was the postulate on which the School of Athens was based. This school looked upon Plato's work as a “sacred text” revealing, though in a different mode, the same truth that was revealed in other “sacred writings,” particularly those of Orpheus and the Chaldeans. Proclus sought systematic agreement between Plato, Pythagoras, Orpheus, and the Chaldean Oracles, and used words associated with the mysteries to write about them. According to Proclus, Hesoid should be fused to a certain extent with Homer and his own aim was to organize the life of his school, its curriculum, and the production of its works, to keep the spiritual vitality of paganism.
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226075358
- eISBN:
- 9780226075389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226075389.003.0008
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
This chapter gives an outline about the obstinately truthful Byzantine society, which is a model of the culture of antiquity. Its fondness did suffer blows from the economic, social, and political ...
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This chapter gives an outline about the obstinately truthful Byzantine society, which is a model of the culture of antiquity. Its fondness did suffer blows from the economic, social, and political crises affecting the Roman Empire which resulted in the punishment of the Pagan-oriented renaissances. The Christian empire did not want to put advanced education to a religious mold. However, the closure of the Neoplatonic School of Athens by Justinian in A.D. 529 was linked to the struggle of state Christianity against militant paganism. The Byzantine world preserved the Greek culture it had inherited and was quite concerned to do so untill the end. This chapter summarizes the types of interpretation carried out by Byzantine, including the interpretation of the moral, physical, and historical types of Stoic inspiration by grammarians such as Eustathius and Tzetzes. It also looks at Neoplatonic inspired mysterical interpretation by philosophers such as Psellus.Less
This chapter gives an outline about the obstinately truthful Byzantine society, which is a model of the culture of antiquity. Its fondness did suffer blows from the economic, social, and political crises affecting the Roman Empire which resulted in the punishment of the Pagan-oriented renaissances. The Christian empire did not want to put advanced education to a religious mold. However, the closure of the Neoplatonic School of Athens by Justinian in A.D. 529 was linked to the struggle of state Christianity against militant paganism. The Byzantine world preserved the Greek culture it had inherited and was quite concerned to do so untill the end. This chapter summarizes the types of interpretation carried out by Byzantine, including the interpretation of the moral, physical, and historical types of Stoic inspiration by grammarians such as Eustathius and Tzetzes. It also looks at Neoplatonic inspired mysterical interpretation by philosophers such as Psellus.
David Goldstein
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781904113669
- eISBN:
- 9781800340183
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781904113669.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter addresses the poetry of Solomon Ibn Gabirol. Solomon was born in Malaga in 1021 or 1022, and lived the greater part of his life in Saragossa. From his early years, he was crippled by ...
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This chapter addresses the poetry of Solomon Ibn Gabirol. Solomon was born in Malaga in 1021 or 1022, and lived the greater part of his life in Saragossa. From his early years, he was crippled by disease, and his illness is a constant theme of his poetry. He was compelled to live by his writing, and found a sympathetic patron in Yekutiel ben Isaac ibn Hasan, who was executed in 1039. Perhaps as a result of his indisposition, and his consequent sense of inferiority, he was not an easy companion, and he left Saragossa, to die, perhaps in Valencia, between 1053 and 1058. He devoted much of his life to the pursuit of philosophy or ‘wisdom’, in which he found consolation for his physical cares; he was an adherent of the Neoplatonic school. His absorption in the ‘new’ philosophy, however, contributed to his personal unpopularity in the Jewish community of Saragossa. Meanwhile, Solomon’s fame as a poet rests mainly on his liturgical poems, which are masterpieces of concision and delicacy. It was he who introduced into the Hebrew poetic canon the poem addressed to the ‘soul’, by which he generally meant man’s intellectual aspiration to discover God.Less
This chapter addresses the poetry of Solomon Ibn Gabirol. Solomon was born in Malaga in 1021 or 1022, and lived the greater part of his life in Saragossa. From his early years, he was crippled by disease, and his illness is a constant theme of his poetry. He was compelled to live by his writing, and found a sympathetic patron in Yekutiel ben Isaac ibn Hasan, who was executed in 1039. Perhaps as a result of his indisposition, and his consequent sense of inferiority, he was not an easy companion, and he left Saragossa, to die, perhaps in Valencia, between 1053 and 1058. He devoted much of his life to the pursuit of philosophy or ‘wisdom’, in which he found consolation for his physical cares; he was an adherent of the Neoplatonic school. His absorption in the ‘new’ philosophy, however, contributed to his personal unpopularity in the Jewish community of Saragossa. Meanwhile, Solomon’s fame as a poet rests mainly on his liturgical poems, which are masterpieces of concision and delicacy. It was he who introduced into the Hebrew poetic canon the poem addressed to the ‘soul’, by which he generally meant man’s intellectual aspiration to discover God.
