International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 11:1

The newest issue of IJPT has been made available. It includes an article on Plotinus and the Gnostics by Zeke Mazur, as well as a tribute to Zeke written by Jean-Marc Narbonne.

The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition is now available from Brill:

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/18725473

Here is the Table of Contents:

Research Articles

Zeke Mazur, “A Gnostic Icarus? Traces of the Controversy Between Plotinus and the Gnostics Over a Surprising Source for the Fall of Sophia: The Pseudo-Platonic 2nd Letter”

Irini-Fotini Viltanioti, “Porphyry’s Real Powers in Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus”

Marilena Vlad, “Stepping into the Void: Proclus and Damascius on Approaching the First Principle”

Notice  nécrologique for Zeke Mazur

Jean-Marc Narbonne,

Book Reviews

‘Pretty much the whole of Education’:1 Virtue and Performance in the Laws

    Author: Richard Stalley

A Fourth Way of Reading Plato’s Phaedo

    Author: Donka D Markus

Platonic Theories of Prayer, Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition , written by John Dillon and Andrei Timotin

    Author: Harold Tarrant

Die Wurzel allen Übels. Vorstellungen über die Herkunft des Bösen und Schlechten in der Philosophie und Religion des 1.-4. Jahrhunderts. Ratio Religionis Studien III , written by F. Jourdain/R. Hirsch-Luitpold

    Author: Matthias Perkams

Gandhi and the Stoics, Modern Experiments on Ancient Values , written by Richard Sorabji

    Author: Deepa Majumdar

À la recherche des idées. Platonisme et philosophie hellénistique d’Antiochus à Plotin , written by Mauro Bonazzi

    Author: Francis Lacroix

Existence et identité , written by Michel Fattal

    Author: Jérôme Laurent

Plotinus, Ennead VI The Enneads of Plotinus with philosophical commentaries , written by Eyjólfur K. Emilsson, Steven K. StrangeJohn M. Dillon and Andrew Smith

    Author: Luc Brisson

Aesthetic Themes in Pagan Christian Neoplatonism: from Plotinus to Gregory of Nyssa , written by Daniele Iozzia

    Author: Anna Corrias

Olympiodorus, On Plato First Alcibiades 10-28 , written by Michael Griffin

    Author: Sebastian Gertz

Defining Platonism

A new volume of studies of the ISNS on Neoplatonism: Defining Platonism: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of John M. Dillon, edited by Sarah Klitenic Wear and John F. Finamore (Franciscan University Press). Below is the table of contents:

Apologia pro Vita Sua Operibusque, by John Dillon viii

Introduction 1

John F. Finamore and Sarah Klitenic Wear

Part I. Plato

1. Platonic Eschatology 11

John Bussanich

2. The Platonist as Friend 29

Kevin Corrigan

3. Plato’s Timaeus: What Is in the Paradigm? 44

Allan Silverman

4. The Athenians against the Persians: Plato’s View

(Laws III, 698a–700a) 64

Christopher Rowe

Part II. Ancient Platonism

5. Numenius, Neopythagoreanism, and the

Troublesome “King(s)” 85

Harold Tarrant

6. Can One Speak of Mysticism in Plotinus? 96

Luc Brisson

7. The Relentless Pursuit of Justice 117

Gary M. Gurtler, SJ

8. Plotinus on Evil: Proclus and the Author of The Divine Names 130

Denis O’Brien

9. Plotinus on Suicide 162

Suzanne Stern-Gillet

10. Self-Reflexive Ontogenesis in the Tripartite Tractate

and Plotinus 181

John D. Turner

11. The Metaphysics of Power, Logos, and Harmony in Porphyry 198

Stephen Gersh

12. The Soul as a Writing Tablet, from Plato to Proclus 218

Anne Sheppard

13. Hermias and the Soul’s Pilot 228

John F. Finamore

14. Plotinus and the Apophatic Augustine 238

John Peter Kenney

15. The Figure of the Diadochos, from Socrates to the Late Antique

Athenian School of Neoplatonism 253

Carl Séan O’Brien and Sarah Klitenic Wear

Part III. Modern Platonism

16. The Platonist as Music Lover: Some Reflections

and Auditions 273

Jay Bregman

17. Platonism versus Naturalism 291

Lloyd P. Gerson