Neoplatonism and Indian Philosophy

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Paulos Gregorios, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
SUNY Press, 1 de gen. 2002 - 275 pàgines
During the last two centuries a remarkable similarity between the philosophical system of Plotinus (205 270 A.D.) and those of various Hindu philosophers in various centuries, including some that lived prior to the Third Century A.D. has been discovered. This book addresses the possibility of any direct influence of Indian thought upon Plotinus and his teacher Ammonius Saccas (185 250 A.D.) or even upon their major source, Plato. Are Platonism and Plotinism, and the thought patterns in Western religion, literature, and art derived from them, to be considered as mere variations on themes found in ancient Hindu philosophy or are they pure evolutionary products of Greek philosophy?

 

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Does Geography Condition Philosophy? On Going Beyond the OccidentalOriental Distinction
13
Plato Neoplatonism and Their Parallel Indian Ideas
31
The Omnipresence of Being The IntellectIntelligible Identity and the Undescending Part of the Soul
45
An Assessment of the Controversy Between Brehier and Rist on the Souls Relation to the One
71
Plotinus and Interior Space
83
Reflections on Emanationism as a Philosophical Theme in the Context of Neoplatonism
97
Being and Knowing in Plotinus
107
Platonism in Late Classical Antiquity and Some Indian Parallels
127
Consciousness in Aurobindo
173
The Four Dimensional Philosophy of Indian Thought and Plotinus
189
Plotinus Criticism of Materialism
199
Plotinus and Vedanta
211
Some Significant Affinities and Divergences
215
Mans PredicamentThe Unique Indian Experience and the Neoplatonic Tradition
223
Rationality and Ritual in Neoplatonism
229
Participants
269

The Sadhana of Plotinus and Sri Aurobindo
153
Plotinus Neoplatonism and the Thought of Sri Aurobindo
163
Contributors
273
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Paulos Mar Gregorios (1922 1996) was Mar Thoma (Syrian) Orthodox Bishop of New Delhi and North India and taught at the Orthodox Theological College in New Delhi.

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