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1953
In ch. III and in the last section of ch. IV of Isc Iamblichus had refused to identify the mathematicals with the soul. In ch. IX he insisted that the soul should be identified with all three branches of mathematics. while ch. IX is much more compatible with most of Isc and also with the Timaeus, ch.
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In ch. III and in the last section of ch. IV of Isc Iamblichus had refused to identify the mathematicals with the soul. In ch. IX he insisted that the soul should be identified with all three branches of mathematics. while ch. IX is much more compatible with most of Isc and also with the Timaeus, ch.
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The Gods as Henads in Iamblichus
The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 2010The origin of the Neoplatonist doctrine of the henads has been imputed to Iamblichus, mostly on indirect evidence found in later Neoplatonists, chiefly Proclus. Is there any trace of this concept to be found in the extant works or fragments of Iamblichus himself? The best candidates among his surviving texts are the excerpts in Psellus of his volume on
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Dionysius, Iamblichus, and Proclus
2022Abstract The author who wrote under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite was deeply immersed in the Neoplatonic tradition, and owes an especial debt to the writings of Iamblichus of Chalcis and Proclus diadochus. This chapter explores Dionysius’ appropriation of some of Iamblichus’ and Proclus’ distinctive terminology.
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Iamblichus on the Grades of Virtue
2012Plotinus argues the four major virtues, they in fact exist at different levels. That the lower, Political Virtues are necessary for our embodied existence state must control lower souls. Since goal is to become like god, the higher, purificatory virtues, in freeing soul from body, lead us more directly to that goal.
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Iamblichus on Mathematical Entities
2012The purpose of this preamble to identify two models in the ancient tradition capable of describing the nature of mathematical entities by the 'Platonic' one, and the 'Aristotelian' one. This chapter focuses on the idea of the survival of similar issues in Iamblichus, which are interconnected with Neopythagorean models scattered among pseudo-epigraphic ...
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