Theoria, Praxis, and the Contemplative Life After Plato and Aristotle

Theoria, Praxis,and the Contemplative Life after Plato and Aristotle......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
T. Bénatouïl and M. Bonazzi: Θεωρία and βίος θεωρητικός from the Presocratics to the End of Antiquity: An Overview......Page 12
Part I: The Hellenistic and Post-Hellenistic Debate......Page 26
I. La «vie selon l’intellect» dans le Lycée......Page 28
II. La supériorité de la vie contemplative......Page 31
III. Les obstacles au «bonheur divin»......Page 34
IV. Les limites naturelles de notre intellect......Page 40
V. Une limite cosmologique?......Page 44
VI. Les regrets de Théophraste......Page 48
I. Einleitung......Page 52
II. Epikurs Brief an Menoikeus......Page 54
III. ἀπλανὴς θεωρία und Platons Timaios......Page 56
IV. Epikureische Theoria im Kontext......Page 59
V. Schluss......Page 66
Carlos Lévy: Ciceron et le problème des genres de vie: une problématique de la voluntas?......Page 68
Margaret Graver: Seneca and the Contemplatio Veri. De otio and Epistulae morales......Page 86
Emidio Spinelli: Beyond the Theoretikos Bios: Philosophy and Praxis in Sextus Empiricus......Page 112
Part II: Early Imperial Platonism and Neoplatonism......Page 130
Valéry Laurand: La contemplation chez Philon d\'Alexandrie......Page 132
Mauro Bonazzi: Theoria and Praxis: On Plutarch\'s Platonism......Page 150
I. Against the bios scholastikos: Plutarch’s Polemic against Stoics and Epicureans......Page 152
II. Beyond the bios praktikos: The Political Theology of Platonism......Page 157
III. Plato for the Empire? Philosophers, Advisers, and Daemons......Page 166
IV. A Few Closing Remarks......Page 170
David Sedley: The Theoretikos Bios in Alcinous......Page 174
Alessandro Linguiti: Plotinus and Porphyry on the Contemplative Life......Page 194
I. Plotinus......Page 195
II. Porphyry and Some Uncertain Points......Page 201
III. After Porphyry: A Brief Survey......Page 206
I. The Contemplative Virtues......Page 210
II. The Contemplative βίος......Page 214
III. Characteristics of the Contemplative Life......Page 216
IV. The Contemplative Life and Its Pleasure......Page 219
Part III: The Christian Reception......Page 224
I. The Figurative Exegesis of Jacob’s Two Wives in the Context of Book 22 of Contra Faustum Manichaeum......Page 226
II. Analysis of Chapters 51–58 of C. Faust. 22......Page 229
III. Originality of the Interpretation Elaborated in Contra Faustum......Page 235
Carlos Steel: Maximus Confessor on Theory and Praxis. A Commentary on Ambigua Ad Johannem VI (10) 1-19......Page 240
I. Why Does Gregory of Nazianzus Not Mention Praxis as a Way to God?......Page 241
II. Nemesius on Practical and Theoretical Reasoning......Page 246
III. The Manifestation of Virtue in Action......Page 250
IV. The Three Motions of the Soul......Page 251
V. The Three General Ways of God’s Causality......Page 254
VI. The Transfiguration: A Model of Perfect Contemplation......Page 255
VI. The Five Modes of Contemplation......Page 258
VII. Conclusion......Page 265
Appendix: Isaac Comnenus: How to Integrate the Views of Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius and Maximus on the Different Modes of Knowledge of the Soul......Page 266
Bibliography......Page 270
Index Locorum......Page 286
Index of Ancient Names......Page 299
Index of Modern Authors......Page 303