Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs in its Intellectual ContextThis monograph, exclusively dedicated to the analysis of Porphyry’s On the Cave of Nymphs, provides his philosophical thoughts on the material world, relationship between soul and body and the salvation of the soul through the doctrines of Plato and Plotinus. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Allegory as a Way of Thinking in On the Cave of the Nymphs | 10 |
2 The Cave as Symbol and Image of the Cosmos | 45 |
3 Embodiment | 89 |
4 The Path towards the Immortality of the Soul | 139 |
Conclusion | 172 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs in its Intellectual Context Volume 23 of Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition |
| Author | K. Nilüfer Akçay |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2019 |
| ISBN | 9004408274, 9789004408272 |
| Length | 230 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical |
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