Philosophy of the Few against the Christians

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Philosophy of the Few against the Christians

An Inquiry into the Textual Transmission of Porphyry's Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles

Beatrice, Pier Franco

Brill

11/2023

600

Dura

Inglês

9789004680067

15 a 20 dias

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Preface and Acknowlegments

Abbreviations



Introduction



Part 1 Preliminary Questions



1 A Philosophy Conforming with the "Chaldean Oracles"



2 An Esoteric Philosophy for the Salvation of the Soul



3 The First Commentary on the "Chaldean Oracles"



4 Zoroaster, the Magi, and the "Chaldean Oracles"



5 Polemics against the Christians



6 Some Further Consequences



Part 2 ???????? ?????????? Statues, Sacrifices and Oracles



7 Philosophy versus Theurgy



8 The Orphic Prorrhesis and the Statues of the Gods



9 The Universal Way for the Salvation of the Soul



10 Sacrifices and Oracles



11 The Letter to Anebo and the Response by Iamblichus



12 Chaldean Philosophy versus Chaldean Theology



13 The Anti-Christian Oracles of Hekate and Apollo



14 Against Origen's Allegorical Interpretation of the Jewish Scriptures



15 Against Origen's Allegorical Interpretation of Homer



Part 3 ?????? ??? ???? ?????????? ???????? ???????? The History of Philosophy and the Encyclical Disciplines



16 The Chronicle of Greek Philosophy from the Fall of Troy to the Reign of Claudius



17 The History of Greek Philosophy from Homer to Plato



18 The History of Greek Philosophy from the Old Academy to Plotinus



19 The Two Editions of the Life of Plotinus



20 The Truest Philosophy of Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle



21 The Oracle of Apollo on Plotinus's Soul



22 Porphyry and the Encyclical Disciplines



23 The Mathematical Disciplines



24 Augustine on the Encyclical Disciplines



25 The Encyclical Disciplines against the Christians



Part 4 ???????? Theological Wisdom for the Salvation of the Soul



26 The Threefold Division of Philosophy



27 Two Preliminary Methodological Issues



28 On the Union of Soul and Body



29 A Collection of Hieroi Logoi on the Soul



30 The Immortality of the Soul



31 Self-Determination and Transmigration of the Soul



32 Homer's Philosophy of the Soul



33 From Anthropology-Ethics to Physics



34 From Physics to Metaphysics-Theology



35 Theology as the Fulfilment of Theosophy



36 Further Theological Fragments



37 Three Books against the Religion and Name of the Christians



Part 5 Reception in the Latin, Byzantine, and Arabic Traditions



38 The Latin Reception



39 Augustine and Macrobius



40 The Byzantine Reception



41 The Relationship with "On Abstinence"



42 A Byzantine Epitome of Porphyry's Theosophy



43 An Arabic Translation of Porphyry's Theology



44 The Philosophy of the Few



Conclusion: A Tentative Reconstruction of the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles



Bibliography

Index of Ancient, Medieval and Modern Authors
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Ancient religions; Arabic philosophy; Biblical exegesis; Christian apologetics; Encyclical disciplines; Greek philosophy; Homeric exegesis; Theosophy; Theurgy