St. Augustine and Plotinus : the Human Mind As Image of the Divine.
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- 270.2092
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Works of Augustine -- Plotinus -- Abbreviated Reference Works -- Chapter 1. Augustine and Plotinus on Imaging the Divine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A New Study on Augustine and Plotinus? -- 3. Key Aspects of This Study -- 3.1. Chapter Overview -- 4. The Multiple Accounts of a Status Quaestionis in an Interdisciplinary Research -- 4.1. Augustine's Doctrine of the Image of God: Generally and Specifically -- 4.2. Augustine's Doctrine of the Image of the Trinity -- 4.3. The Plotinian Influence in Augustine's Doctrine: from General to Specific -- 4.4. On Images and Imaging -- 4.5. Epistemology -- 4.6. On Love -- 4.7. The Ascent -- 4.8. Augustine's Christian Platonism -- 4.9. The End of Augustine's Interest in Greek Philosophy? -- Chapter 2. Augustine's Appraisal of Plotinus' Philosophy -- 1. Augustine's Accounts of Platonism in Confessions -- 1.1. Augustine and Manichaeism -- 1.2. Manichaean Salvation and Ascent to the Light -- 1.3. Attractive Elements in Manichaeism -- 1.4. Augustine's (Platonist) Critique of Manichaeism -- 1.5. Augustine's Post-Manichaean Intellectual Development -- 1.6. The Influence of Ambrose -- 1.7. Augustine's Appraisal of Platonism -- 1.8. The Platonist 'Son of God' -- 1.9. The Plotinian Immaterial Divine and the Absolute Good -- 1.10. The Inward Turn and the Ascent (1) -- 1.11. Augustine's Conversion and the Verbum Dei -- 1.12. The Ascent (2) -- 1.13. Augustine's Critique of the Plotinian Ascent -- 1.14. Augustine's Points of Critique of Platonism in Confessions: A Synthesis -- 2. Augustine on Plato and the Platonists in The City of God and The Trinity -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Augustine's Critique of Platonism: Theurgy and Demonology -- 2.3. Augustine's Praise of the Platonists -- 2.3.1. Plato in De civitate Dei VIII.
2.3.2. Their Correct Understanding of God -- 2.3.3. The Platonist Notion of the Immaterial Human Mind -- 2.3.4. The Platonist Doctrine of the Ideas/Forms (De civitate Dei VIII.6) -- 2.3.5. Plato on Virtue, Wisdom and Love of God -- 2.3.6. Plotinus on Divine Light -- 2.3.7. Plotinus on Providence, Beauty and Visio Dei -- 2.3.8. On the Son of God in the Triune Godhead: Confessions and The City of God -- 2.3.9. Critique of the Platonist theory of Ideas in De Trinitate IV -- 3. Augustine as Platonist: Synthesis -- 3.1. Continuity and Discontinuity in Confessions and De civitate Dei -- 3.2. Conclusions -- 3.3. On the Problematic Position of the Divinity of the Soul -- Chapter 3. Plotinus: Images, the Soul and the Ascent -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Images in Plotinus -- 1.2. The Enneads -- 2. Images and Imaging in Plotinus' Theogony and Cosmology -- 2.1. Terminology of Imaging -- 2.2. Plotinus' Theogony -- 2.2.1. The One, the Good -- 2.2.2. The Absolute Intellect: Νοῦς -- 2.2.3. The Divine All-Soul Ψυχή -- 2.3. Plotinus' Ontology: the Relationship between Two Worlds -- 2.4. Imaging: the Intelligible World: Forms and Ideas -- 2.5. Imaging: a Process of Formation-the Ideas and the Λόγος/Λόγοι -- 2.6. Synopsis: Plotinus' Doctrine of the Λόγος and the Λόγοι in the Process of Imaging -- 2.7. Cosmogony of the Visible World -- 2.7.1. Making Material Images: Joining Form to Matter -- 2.7.2. The Making of Human Beings -- 2.7.3. The Process of Imaging in the Cosmos -- 2.7.4. Properties of Images -- 2.8. A Short Prelude on Augustine's Doctrine of Creation and Imaging -- 3. The Human Soul as Image: φύσις, Λόγος and Νοῦς -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The Lower Soul φύσις -- 3.3. The Rational Soul Λογιστικόν: Λόγος and Νοῦς -- 3.4. Two Kinds of Knowledge -- 3.5. The Divinity of the Human Intellect (1).
3.6. Matter, Evil, Sin and Error -- 3.7. The Divinity of the Intellect (2) -- 3.7.1. The Difficulties of the Soul -- Defining the Intellect -- 4. The Ascent: Intellectual Contemplation and the Soul's Ascent to Beauty -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The Divine Intellect's Relationship with the One -- 4.3. The Divine Intellect -- 4.4. Contemplation of the Ideas and Self-Knowledge -- 4.4.1. The Human Soul Λόγος Contemplating the Ideas -- 4.4.2. The Human Soul-Νοῦς Contemplating the Ideas -- 4.5. Continuation of the Discussion of the Divinity of the Intellect and the Difficulties of the Soul -- 4.6. The 'Failure' and 'Descent' of the Intellect -- 4.7. To the One: the Ascent by Beauty and Love -- 4.7.1. Introduction -- 4.7.2. Ἔρως is Desire -- 4.7.3. Ἔρως as Human Love -- 4.7.4. Ἔρως Rising to the Intellect and Forms -- 4.7.5. Ἔρως Beyond the Intellect -- 4.8. Synthesis of Plotinus' Account of the Ascent: Love and Knowledge -- Chapter 4. Augustine: the Image of God in His Genesis Commentaries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Augustine's Doctrine of Creation: Ideas and Images -- 2.1. The Word of God and the Creation of the World -- 2.2. The Creator: Perfect Image and Source of the Ideas: Eternal Creation Principles -- 2.3. Ontology -- 2.4. The Six Days of Creation or the Two Creation Phases -- 2.5. The Ideas of God and the Rationes -- 2.6. The Creation of Human Beings -- 2.7. Definition of 'Image' -- 2.8. The Influence of Plotinus -- 3. The Soul-Intellect in Augustine's Doctrine of the Imago Dei in De genesi ad litteram -- 3.1. Introduction to De genesi ad litteram and the Imago Dei -- 3.2. The Imago Dei in De genesi ad litteram III -- 3.2.1. Imago Dei as Intellect -- 3.2.2. The Imago Dei and the Angels -- 3.2.3. The Influence of Plotinus -- 3.2.4. Imago Dei, Original Sin and Human Nature.
3.2.5. Original Sin and the Human Will -- 3.2.6. Sin and Pride in the Context of Love and Knowledge -- 3.2.7. Imago Dei: Eschatology and the Resurrection -- 3.2.8. Similarities to Plotinus' Doctrine of Sin -- 4. The Ascent: The Soul's Vision and Contemplation of the Ideas -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Contemplation of the Ideas and the Ascent in De Ideis -- 4.3. Visio Intellectualis in De genesi ad litteram XII -- 4.3.1. The Context of Augustine's Theory of the Three Visions -- 4.3.2. Augustine's Definition of Three Visions -- 4.3.3. Characteristics of the Visio Intellectualis -- 4.3.4. Augustine's Accounts of the Ascent: the Imago Dei and Visio Intellectualis -- 4.4. The Influence of Plotinus -- Chapter 5. The Image of the Trinity in De Trinitate -- 1. Introduction to De Trinitate -- 1.1. Chapter Overview -- 1.2. The Treatment of Imago Dei in De Trinitate Compared to De genesi ad litteram -- 1.3. Method and Structure of De Trinitate -- 1.4. Readership -- 2. The Trinitarian Godhead and Christology -- 2.1. Augustine's Criteria for His Analysis of the Imago Trinitatis -- 2.2. The Son and His Incarnation -- 2.3. The Holy Spirit -- 2.4. Trinitarian Ontology: God's Equality in Essence, Substance -- 2.5. The Son (Word), Christ, as Perfect Image of God the Father -- 2.6. God is Love and Good -- 2.7. The Holy Spirit and the Holy Trinity is Love -- 2.8. God is Intelligible and Incomprehensible -- 3. The Imago Trinitatis: Knowledge and Love -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Augustine's General Treatment of the Imago Trinitatis -- 3.2.1. The Image of God in De Trinitate VII -- 3.3. A Prelude to the Study of Triads in the Imago Trinitatis (De Trinitate VII-VIII) -- 3.4. Augustine's Analysis of the Human Mental Trinities (De Trinitate IX-X -- XII-XV).
3.5. The Imago Trinitatis: a Unity of Mind-Self-Knowledge and Self-Love (Books IX-X) -- 3.6. The Object of the Trinities: Self and God -- 3.7. Excursus on Love and Knowledge in Modern and Ancient Terminology -- 3.8. The Element Knowledge: Epistemology -- 3.8.1. Introduction -- 3.8.2. Self-Knowledge (Books VIII-X) -- 3.8.3. True Knowledge and the verbum intimum, the Inner Word (Books VIII-X -- XIV) -- 3.8.4. Self-Knowledge and Truth: the Different 'Selves' (Books X-XI) -- 3.8.5. Sense Perception and Material Images (The Outer Man) (Book XI) -- 3.8.6. Lower and Higher Knowledge: Interior Man (Books XII and XIII) -- 3.8.7. Faith and Future Knowledge (Searching and Finding) -- 3.8.8. Synthesis: the Imago Trinitatis: Intellect and Epistemology -- 3.9. Augustine's Doctrine of Love in De Trinitate -- 3.9.1. Introduction: Defining the Frontiers of the Element Love in This Study -- 3.9.2. Augustine's Terminology of 'Love' -- 3.9.3. Augustine's Biblical Sources for His Doctrine of Love -- 3.9.4. God-Trinity as Love -- 3.9.5. Amor in the Image of the Trinity (Books VIII-X) -- 3.9.6. Love-Longing-Searching -- 3.9.7. Self-Love and Longings: Truth and Delusion -- 3.9.8. Love, Longings and Prayer as Related to the Doctrine of the Imago Trinitatis -- 3.9.9. Synthesis: Augustine's Doctrine of Love in De Trinitate -- 4. Augustine's Account of the Ascent in De Trinitate -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Summaries of the Ascent -- 4.3. Imago Trinitatis as Reflection of the Holy Trinity -- 4.4. Epistemological Ascent -- 4.5. The Ascent by Love -- 4.6. God's Intelligibility and Incomprehensibility -- 4.7. Eschatology and Vision of God -- 4.8. Conclusions on Augustine's Account of the Ascent -- Prologue to Chapters 6-9 on Augustine and Plotinus -- Chapter 6. Augustine and Plotinus on the Godhead -- 1. Introduction.
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In Augustine and Plotinus: the Human Mind as Image of the Divine Laela Zwollo explores the doctrines of the image of God (the human soul or intellect) of two of the most influential thinkers of late antiquity: the Christian Augustine of Hippo and the Neo-Platonist Plotinus.
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