Reading Ancient Texts, Aristotle and Neoplatonism: Essays in Honour of Denis O’brien Book

Preface Note on Contributors

I. ARISTOTLE
1. Aristotle’s Conception of Dunamis and TechnÄ", C. Natali
2. Aristotle and the Starting Point of Moral Development: The Notion of Natural Virtue, C. Viano
3. Akrasia and Moral Education in Aristotle, J. Cleary
4. Effective Primary Causes: The Notion of Contact and the Possibility of Acting without Being Affected in Aristotle’s De Generatione et Corruptione, T. Buchheim

II. PLATO AND HIS HEIRS: FROM APULEIUS TO AUGUSTINE
5. The Organisation of the Soul: Some Overlooked Aspects of Interpretation from Plato to Late Antiquity, K. Corrigan
6. The Final Metamorphosis: Narrative Voice in the Prologue of Apuleius' Golden Ass, F.M. Schroeder
7. Plotinus: Omnipresence and Transcendence in VI 4-5[22-23], G. Gurtler S.J.
8. The Concept of Will in Plotinus, C. Horn
9. Divine Freedom in Plotinus and Iamblichus (Tractate VI 8 (39) 7, 11-15 and De Mysteriis III, 17-20), J.-M. Narbonne
10. Was the Vita Plotini known in Arab Philosophical Circles?, P. Thillet
11. Friendship and Transgression: Luminosus limes amicitiae (Augustine, Confessions 2.2.2) and the Themes of Confessions 2, G. O’Daly
12. Augustine and the Philosophical Foundations of Sincerity, S. Stern-Gillet

III. EPILOGUE: INTERPRETATION IN RETROSPECT
13. Innovation and Continuity in the History of Philosophy, D. Evans

A Detailed Bibliography of Denis O’Brien’s Works

Index locorum General Index