John M Rist

Biographic Data

ID	997490
NAME	John M Rist
GIVEN NAMES	John M
FAMILY NAME	Rist
SIGNATURE	RIST J M
AFFILIATIONS	1University College, Toronto
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	62
TOTAL CITATIONS	10
AUTHOR COUNT	61
EDITOR COUNT	1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2023
H-INDEX	2

The Stoic Concept of Detachment
John M Rist, John Μ RistCHAPTERStoics2023
Dionysius’ Christianity
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEAnnali di Scienze Religiose2016
The purpose of this paper is to ask why whereas in antiquity some thought of Dionysius as a heretic, no one considered him hardly a Christian at all – but that view has been quite prominent in recent times. The explanation is the attitude towards ‘authentic’ Christianity developed by the Protestants, who singled out Dionysius as more or less pagan – though in doing so neglecting the fact that his attitude to Greek philosophy is more or less the s…
What Is Truth?
John M Rist, John Μ RistBOOKWhat Is Truth?2012
What is truth
John M RistBOOKWhat is truth?2008
This book studies the nature, growth and prospects of Roman Catholic culture, viewed as capable of appropriating all that is noble from both internal and external sources. John Rist tests his argument via a number of avenues: man's creation in the image of God and historical difficulties about incorporating women into that vision; the relationship between God's mercy and justice; the possibility of Christian aesthetics; the early development of t…
Plutarch’s Amatorius
Open AccessJohn M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2001Cited by: 1
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Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEInternational Philosophical…2000
On inoculating moral philosophy against God
John M RistBOOKOn inoculating moral philosophy…1999
Platonic Soul, Aristotelian Form, Christian Person
John M Rist, John Μ RistCHAPTERSelf, Soul and Body in Religious…1998
Augustine
Gareth B Matthews, John M Rist et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1996
Augustine
Open AccessJohn M Rist, John Μ RistBOOKAugustine1994
This major work constitutes a significant attempt to provide a detailed and accurate account of the character and effects of Augustine's thought as a whole. It describes the transformation of Greco-Roman philosophy into the version that was to become the most influential in the history of Western thought. Augustine weighed some of the major themes of classical philosophy and ancient culture against the truth he found in the Bible and Catholic tra…
Aristotle Transformed
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.REVIEWAncient Philosophy1993
The Mind of Aristotle
John M Rist, John Μ RistBOOKMind of Aristotle1989
In an effort to confront this situation John Rist attempts to chart Aristotle's philosophical progress, using the techniques of both philology and philosophical analysis. His aim is to see where Aristotle came from philosophically and what impelled him to develop his ideas in particular directions.
Seneca and Stoic Orthodoxy
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.CHAPTERPhilosophie, Wissenschaften,…1989
Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1989
Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEAncient Philosophy1988
Scepticism or Platonism? The Philosophy of the Fourth Academy
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1986
Porphyre
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1985
Human Value
Roger J Sullivan, John M Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1983
The Stoics
David Sedley, John M Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1982
On the Independence of Matthew and Mark
Thomas R W Longstaff, John M Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1981
Epicurus on Friendship
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEClassical Philology1980
The Stoics
John M RistBOOKStoics1978
The Stoic Concept of Detachment
John M Rist, John Μ RistCHAPTERStoics1978
Facets of Plato's Philosophy
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1978
Aristotle's Metaphysics, Books M and N
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1978
M and N, the last two books of the Metaphysics, are Aristotle's only sustained venture into the philosophy of mathematics. In them, he criticizes Plato's theories and suggests alternatives of his own. This commentary concentrates on the continuing philosophical interest of these books rather than on scholarly controversies, and will provide a clear introduction for students, including those without Greek, to an unjustly neglected part of Aristotl…

Plotinus on Matter and Evil
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEPhronesis1961Cited by: 3
IN THE DISCUSSION which followed his paper Plotin et les Gnostiques,1 M. Puech suggested that the language and thought of Plotinus concerning matter could be said to have developed. Before the break with the Gnostics which is revealed in Enneads 3.8, g.8, s,5, and 2.9, thinks M. Puech, Plotinus conceived of matter as a kind of evil substance, whereas he later came to regard it as imaginee comme un miroir. After questioning, he explained that he i…
Forms of Individuals in Plotinus
Open AccessJohn M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1963Cited by: 2References: 1
When the theory of Forms was first developed by Plato, it was the final stage of a series of philosophical investigations which began with Socrates' search for definitions. The Form was regarded as a ‘one over many’ that is separate from particulars. It is by their participation in the perfect Form that the particulars derive their transitory existence. There is a Form, according to the Republic (596 a 5–7) corresponding to every set of things th…
Plutarch’s Amatorius
Open AccessJohn M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2001Cited by: 1
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The Heracliteanism of Aenesidemus
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEPhoenix1970Cited by: 1
THE CONCLUSIONS PROPOSED by this paper will be tentative, as is fitting in a discussion of one of the more interesting of the ancient Sceptics, but they will be offered as a solution to a problem of some importance in the history of Scepticism in antiquity which has often been avoided or solved unsatisfactorily. What follows could not have been written if we did not possess Dal Pra's excellent study of Aenesidemus,' but, although we must follow D…
Plotinus
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1967Cited by: 1
Plotinus and the "Daimonion" of Socrates
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEPhoenix1963Cited by: 1
IN THE tenth chapter of his Life of Plotinus Porphyry recounts the story of a seance held in the Isaeum at Rome. An Egyptian priest, he tells us, offered to evoke Plotinus' daimon, but when he had delivered his summons it was not a daimon that appeared, but a god. As a result of meditating on this experience, Porphyry continues, Plotinus wrote a treatise on spirit-guides (3.4) in which he attempted to explain why the guides of all men are not ali…
The Indefinite Dyad and Intelligible Matter in Plotinus
Open AccessJohn M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1962Cited by: 1
The role and precise significance of Intelligible Matter in the philosophy of Plotinus has been neglected or dismissed with many questions unanswered. In view of the fact that, unless this role can be properly understood, the whole doctrine of the procession of the Second Hypostasis must remain mysterious, this paper is intended to shed light on two important aspects of that Hypostasis: the nature of Intelligible Matter itself and the relation of…

The Order of the Later Dialogues of Plato
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEPhoenix1960
IN 1953, Mr. G. E. L. Owen1 published in the Classical Quarterly an article purporting to prove that the Timaeus ought, on various grounds, to be dated before the Theaetetus and the Parmenides and to approximately the same period of Plato's life as the Phaedrus. His most powerful motive for making this change was a desire to rid the later dialogues of the shadow of the Paradigms and to avoid the difficulties involved in the attempt to reconcile t…
Plotinus on Matter and Evil
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEPhronesis1961Cited by: 3
IN THE DISCUSSION which followed his paper Plotin et les Gnostiques,1 M. Puech suggested that the language and thought of Plotinus concerning matter could be said to have developed. Before the break with the Gnostics which is revealed in Enneads 3.8, g.8, s,5, and 2.9, thinks M. Puech, Plotinus conceived of matter as a kind of evil substance, whereas he later came to regard it as imaginee comme un miroir. After questioning, he explained that he i…
Les Sources de Plotin
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEPhoenix1961
The Neoplatonic One and Plato's Parmenides
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLETransactions and Proceedings of…1962
Plato's Later Epistemology
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1962
The Indefinite Dyad and Intelligible Matter in Plotinus
Open AccessJohn M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1962Cited by: 1
The role and precise significance of Intelligible Matter in the philosophy of Plotinus has been neglected or dismissed with many questions unanswered. In view of the fact that, unless this role can be properly understood, the whole doctrine of the procession of the Second Hypostasis must remain mysterious, this paper is intended to shed light on two important aspects of that Hypostasis: the nature of Intelligible Matter itself and the relation of…
The "Parmenides" Again
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEPhoenix1962
IN VIEW of the great bulk of writings already in existence on Parmenides yet another article may seem unnecessary. Unfortunately, disputes about the meaning of the dialogue are as great as ever. An interesting review of the main attitudes of modern commentators has been produced by W. G. Runciman,' who has both attempted to point out their weaknesses and provided a new theory of his own. I shall add nothing to his remarks on the parody theory,2 n…
The Aviary Model in the Theaetetus
Open AccessJohn M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEDialogue1963
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Forms of Individuals in Plotinus
Open AccessJohn M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1963Cited by: 2References: 1
When the theory of Forms was first developed by Plato, it was the final stage of a series of philosophical investigations which began with Socrates' search for definitions. The Form was regarded as a ‘one over many’ that is separate from particulars. It is by their participation in the perfect Form that the particulars derive their transitory existence. There is a Form, according to the Republic (596 a 5–7) corresponding to every set of things th…
Plato's Meno
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1963
Plotinus and the "Daimonion" of Socrates
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEPhoenix1963Cited by: 1
IN THE tenth chapter of his Life of Plotinus Porphyry recounts the story of a seance held in the Isaeum at Rome. An Egyptian priest, he tells us, offered to evoke Plotinus' daimon, but when he had delivered his summons it was not a daimon that appeared, but a god. As a result of meditating on this experience, Porphyry continues, Plotinus wrote a treatise on spirit-guides (3.4) in which he attempted to explain why the guides of all men are not ali…
In Search of the Divine Denis
John M Rist, John Μ RistCHAPTERThe Seed of Wisdom1964
Some Aspects of Aristotelian Teleology
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLETransactions and Proceedings of…1965
Monism
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEHarvard Studies in Classical…1965
Neopythagoreanism and 'Plato's' second letter
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEPhronesis1965
T he discussion of the &pZaE of the world in Sextus Empiricus 10, 248-284 is very confused. Doctrines appear to be attributed now to the Pythagoreans, now to Plato. It seems probable that either Sextus or his source or both were unaware of the precise origin of many of the ideas they were dealing with. It is certain that in the last century B.C. and the early centuries A.D. there was a mass of writings in circulation which purported to be of earl…
A Note On Eros and Agape in Pseudo-Dionysius
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEVigiliae Christianae1965
A NOTE ON EROS AND AGAPE IN PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS BY JOHN M. RIST "For even if it is true that Agape had at this time largely lost its force, yet that was not the reason why Dionysius preferred to speak of Eros. Eros was the reality he knew, so he naturally preferred to speak of the thing by its right name." Anders Nygren' Let us start with Nygren's premiss that Eros was the reality Dionysius knew. How does Nygren mean us to take this statement? He me…
Eros and Psyche
James P Sullivan, John M Rist et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1965
Plotini Opera, I
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1965
Notes on Aristotle De Anima 3. 5
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEClassical Philology1966
Of all the Aristotelian doctrines perhaps the most difficult is that concerning the Active and Passive Intellects which we find in the short fifth chapter of the third book of the De Anima. Interpretations of this chapter have been almost as numerous as interpreters, and it would be naive to expect at this stage to be definitive. Nevertheless it seems that progress has been delayed in many cases by a too casual approach to what Aristotle says in …
A Note on Eros and Agape in Pseudo-Dionysius
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEVigiliae Christianae1966
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1966
Integration and the Undescended Soul in Plotinus
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEThe American Journal of Philology1967
Porphyre
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEPhoenix1967
Two Studies in the Greek Atomists
John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1967
Knowledge and Value in Plato
John M Rist, John Μ RistARTICLEPhoenix1967