Plotinus on the World Soul

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgment V
3. Contents VII
4. The World Soul in Antiquity and beyond 1
5. Part I: Prehistory of the concept
6. Is the Logos a kind of World Soul? On the relationship between cosmology and psychology in Heraclitus 27
7. Part II: Plato’s Timaeus and Pseudo-Aristotle’s De Mundo
8. Disorderly motion and the World Soul in the Timaeus 63
9. Die „Seele“ des Seienden bei Platon: Sophistes 248e–249a und Timaios 30a–31c 77
10. Ascoltare l’anima cosmica: riargomentazione ed esegesi tecnica κατὰ ζητήματα della divisio animae platonica 91
11. The power of god in Pseudo-Aristotle’s De mundo: An alternative approach 135
12. Part III: Old Academy, Stoicism, and Middle Platonism
13. The World Soul takes command: The doctrine of the World Soul in the Epinomis of Philip of Opus and in the academy of Polemon 155
14. Apospasma: The World Soul and its individual parts in Stoicism 167
15. Die kosmische Seele bei Ps.-Timaios Lokros und den anderen Pseudopythagorica: kosmologische und erkenntnistheoretische Aspekte 189
16. Calcidius on Fate and the World Soul 211
17. Part IV: Neoplatonism
18. Plotinus on the World Soul 245
19. The World Soul in the embryological theories of Porphyry and Plotinus 269
20. The World Soul in Proclus’ Timaeus Commentary 289
21. From the particular soul to the World Soul: Some puzzles in Philoponus 309
22. Part V: Nachleben
23. World Soul and celestial heat. Platonic and Aristotelian ideas in the history of natural philosophy 335
24. Index of Names 355
25. Index of Ancient Citations 357
26. Index of Subjects 363