Dominic J O’meara
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4124962 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dominic J O’meara |
| PRENOMES | Dominic J |
| SOBRENOME | O’meara |
| ASSINATURA | O’MEARA D J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Fribourg |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Eriugena and Aquinas on the Beatific Vision
Jeu et genre
An essay by the Byzantine philosopher Michael Psellos (11th century) describes a boy with an abnormally large head who rejects manly games and plays with dolls representing a couple who are getting married and whose bride becomes pregnant and gives birth. Repositioned in its literary genre, with a new translation, this exceptional writing is commented on in relation to the sources used and the ideas expressed. This unusually precise testimony inv…
Law and Legislator in the Philosophy of Julian the Emperor
This paper surveys the conceptions of law and of legislation to be found in the philosophy of Julian the Emperor. A hierarchy of levels of law is described, going from transcendent divine orders and paradigmatic laws down to the laws of nature, laws innate in human souls and regional laws. Julian’s ideal legislator is discussed, as inspired by transcendent, paradigmatic laws and as subordinate to law and its protector. An example of Julian’s legi…
Studies in Aristotle
Platonic Investigations
Konzepte monarchischer Herrschaft im Neuplatonismus
Cosmology and Politics in Plato's Later Works
Knowledge of the structure of the cosmos, Plato suggests, is important in organizing a human community which aims at happiness. This book investigates this theme in Plato's later works, the Timaeus, Statesman, and Laws. Dominic J. O'Meara proposes fresh readings of these texts, starting from the religious festivals and technical and artistic skills in the context of which Plato elaborates his cosmological and political theories, for example the G…
Tracking the Sources of the Fragments of Heraclitus in Stobaeus′ Anthology
Souls and Cities in Late Ancient Platonic Philosophy
Interpreting Proclus
A History of Pythagoreanism
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted …
Aristotelian ethics in Plotinus
The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics
Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking in medieval, Jewish and Islamic reception and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century. Ea…
Hearing the harmony of the spheres in Late Antiquity
Patterns of Perfection in Damascius' Life of Isidore
In this article, it is shown that, following the precedent set in particular by Marinus' Life of Proclus, Damascius, in his Life of Isidore, uses biography so as to illustrate philosophical progress through the Neoplatonic scale of virtues. Damascius applies this scale, however, to a wide range of figures belonging to pagan philosophical circles of the fifth century AD: they show different degrees and forms of progress in this scale and thus prov…
Platonopolis
The Philosopher and Society in Late Antiquity
La connaissance de soi
Le 49e traité des Ennéades reprend le précepte delphique « connais-toi toi-même », mais d’une manière surprenante pour des lecteurs modernes. Le « soi-même » dont il est question n’est pas en effet le moi empirique, considéré dans sa singularité et son histoire personnelle et sociale. Ce n’est pas un moi donné à une introspection, un examen de conscience, ou à des techniques d’analyse, c’est un « soi » à constituer par identification progressive …
Reading Neoplatonism
Reading Neoplatonism
Introduction. Representing a tradition: exegesis, symbol and self-reflection Part I. Language in the Enneads: 2. Plotinus' critique of discursive thinking 3. Non-discursive thinking in the Enneads 4. Introspection in the dialectic of the Enneads 5. The symbolism of the Enneads Part II. Text and Tradition in Neoplatonism: 6. History of an enigma: mathematical symbolism in the Neoplatonic tradition 7. Transmigrations of a myth: Orphic texts and Pla…
Scepticism and Ineffability in Plotinus
The first part of this paper traces back to Plotinus a strategy applied by Augustine and Descartes whereby sceptical arguments are used to set aside sensualist forms of dogmatic philosophy, clearing the way for a dogmatism independent of sense-perception which is 'self-authenticating' and thus immune to, and even proven by, sceptical doubt. It is argued that Plotinus already uses this strategy in the opening chapters of Enneads V 5 and V 3. The s…
Lectures néoplatoniciennes du Philèbe de Platon
Les écoles néoplatoniciennes, du IVe jusqu’au VIe siècle, lisaient souvent le Philèbe de Platon. En effet, il s’agissait pour elles d’un texte philosophique de première importance. Peu travaillé, semble-t-il, dans les écoles moyen platoniciennes des deux premiers siècles, le Philèbe a fait l’objet d’un commentaire rédigé par l’élève de Plotin, Porphyre ; un autre élève de Plotin, Amélius, pourrait avoir aussi commenté le texte. Élève de Porphyre,…
The Journey to Wisdom
The hierarchical ordering of reality in Plotinus
If we have any preconceptions about Plotinus, before looking at him more closely, these preconceptions are likely to include the notion that his world is a "hierarchy," or "chain of being" stretching from some mysterious transcendent cause, the One, down through a succession of levels to the bottom level, matter. This notion, derived from the doxographic surveys to be read in our manuals of the history of philosophy, influenced also perhaps by ou…
The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year peri…
Patterns of Perfection in Damascius' Life of Isidore
In this article, it is shown that, following the precedent set in particular by Marinus' Life of Proclus, Damascius, in his Life of Isidore, uses biography so as to illustrate philosophical progress through the Neoplatonic scale of virtues. Damascius applies this scale, however, to a wide range of figures belonging to pagan philosophical circles of the fifth century AD: they show different degrees and forms of progress in this scale and thus prov…
The Philosopher and Society in Late Antiquity
Scepticism and Ineffability in Plotinus
The first part of this paper traces back to Plotinus a strategy applied by Augustine and Descartes whereby sceptical arguments are used to set aside sensualist forms of dogmatic philosophy, clearing the way for a dogmatism independent of sense-perception which is 'self-authenticating' and thus immune to, and even proven by, sceptical doubt. It is argued that Plotinus already uses this strategy in the opening chapters of Enneads V 5 and V 3. The s…
A propos D'Un Témoignage Sur L'Expérience Mystique De Plotin
À PROPOS D'UN TÉMOIGNAGE SUR L'EXPÉRIENCE MYSTIQUE DE PLOTIN (Enn. IV 8 [6], 1, I-II) PAR DOMINIC O'MEARA L'exp6rience mystique de Plotin a fait 1'objet d'une s6rie d'etudes r6centes men6es par M. Pierre Hadot 1). Cette recherche a pris la forme d'une "6tude d'ensemble sur les textes plotiniens que, selon la terminologie moderne, on peut qualifier de 'mystiques' " 2). Quoiqu'une telle lecture de textes oblige a prendre conscience des problemes qu…
Substanz und Qualität Beitrag zur Interpretation der plotinischen Traktate VI.1.2 und 3
Being in Numenius and Plotinus Some Points of Comparison
In his Vita Plotini (17,1-6), Porphyry tells us that when the people from Greece began to say that Plotinus was appropriating the ideas of Numenius, and Trypho the Stoic and Platonist told Amelius, the latter wrote a book to which we gave the title 'On the Difference between the Doctrines of Plotinus and Numenius' (trans. Armstrong). Whilst this evidence cautions us against making rapprochements between Plotinus and Numenius which overlook the di…
Neoplatonism and Christian Thought
In this volume, the relationships between two of the most vital currents in Western thought are examined by a group of nineteen internationally known specialists in a variety of disciplines-classics, patristics, philosophy, theology, history of ideas, and literature. The contributing scholars discuss Neoplatonic theories about God, creation, man, and salvation, in relation to the ways in which they were adopted, adapted, or rejected by major Chri…
New Fragments from Iamblichus' Collection of Pythagorean Doctrines
Introduction to the Problem of Individuation in the Early Middle Ages . Jorge J. E. Gracia
Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism
Pythagoras Revived
The Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality inspired Neoplatonist philosophers in Late Antiquity to develop theories in physics and metaphysics based on mathematical models. This book examines this theme, describing first the Pythagorean interests of Platonists in the second and third centuries and then Iamblichus's programme to Pythagoreanize Platonism in the fourth century in his work On Pythagoreanism (whose unity of c…
Ambigua ad Iohannem, Iuxta Iohannis Scotti Eriugenae Latinam Interpretationem. Maximus Confessor, Eduardus Jeauneau
The Freedom of the One
Readers of Plotinus Ennead VI 8 1391 have thought the treatise to be very different from Plotinus' other works and indeed to be something of a revolution in the history of metaphysics. In this treatise Plotinus refers to the ultimate constitutive principle of all things, the One, as absolute liberty, as absolutely unrestricted self-will to be what it is. This, it seems, is quite different from what we usually hear about the One in the Enneads and…
Augustine. Christopher Kirwan
Plotinus
The hierarchical ordering of reality in Plotinus
If we have any preconceptions about Plotinus, before looking at him more closely, these preconceptions are likely to include the notion that his world is a "hierarchy," or "chain of being" stretching from some mysterious transcendent cause, the One, down through a succession of levels to the bottom level, matter. This notion, derived from the doxographic surveys to be read in our manuals of the history of philosophy, influenced also perhaps by ou…
The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year peri…
The Journey to Wisdom
Lectures néoplatoniciennes du Philèbe de Platon
Les écoles néoplatoniciennes, du IVe jusqu’au VIe siècle, lisaient souvent le Philèbe de Platon. En effet, il s’agissait pour elles d’un texte philosophique de première importance. Peu travaillé, semble-t-il, dans les écoles moyen platoniciennes des deux premiers siècles, le Philèbe a fait l’objet d’un commentaire rédigé par l’élève de Plotin, Porphyre ; un autre élève de Plotin, Amélius, pourrait avoir aussi commenté le texte. Élève de Porphyre,…
Scepticism and Ineffability in Plotinus
The first part of this paper traces back to Plotinus a strategy applied by Augustine and Descartes whereby sceptical arguments are used to set aside sensualist forms of dogmatic philosophy, clearing the way for a dogmatism independent of sense-perception which is 'self-authenticating' and thus immune to, and even proven by, sceptical doubt. It is argued that Plotinus already uses this strategy in the opening chapters of Enneads V 5 and V 3. The s…
La connaissance de soi
Le 49e traité des Ennéades reprend le précepte delphique « connais-toi toi-même », mais d’une manière surprenante pour des lecteurs modernes. Le « soi-même » dont il est question n’est pas en effet le moi empirique, considéré dans sa singularité et son histoire personnelle et sociale. Ce n’est pas un moi donné à une introspection, un examen de conscience, ou à des techniques d’analyse, c’est un « soi » à constituer par identification progressive …
Reading Neoplatonism
Reading Neoplatonism
Introduction. Representing a tradition: exegesis, symbol and self-reflection Part I. Language in the Enneads: 2. Plotinus' critique of discursive thinking 3. Non-discursive thinking in the Enneads 4. Introspection in the dialectic of the Enneads 5. The symbolism of the Enneads Part II. Text and Tradition in Neoplatonism: 6. History of an enigma: mathematical symbolism in the Neoplatonic tradition 7. Transmigrations of a myth: Orphic texts and Pla…
The Philosopher and Society in Late Antiquity
Patterns of Perfection in Damascius' Life of Isidore
In this article, it is shown that, following the precedent set in particular by Marinus' Life of Proclus, Damascius, in his Life of Isidore, uses biography so as to illustrate philosophical progress through the Neoplatonic scale of virtues. Damascius applies this scale, however, to a wide range of figures belonging to pagan philosophical circles of the fifth century AD: they show different degrees and forms of progress in this scale and thus prov…
Platonopolis
Hearing the harmony of the spheres in Late Antiquity
Aristotelian ethics in Plotinus
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