Cosmic and Meta-Cosmic Theology in Aristotle's Lost Dialogues |
Contents
J H Waszink on the figure of the dreaming Kronos | 16 |
A dreaming or sleeping god Kronos in the Corpus Hermeticum | 29 |
Further analysis of the myth in Plutarchs De facie in orbe lunae | 42 |
The origin of the views voiced in the De facie 1 R Heinze 1892 | 55 |
H von Arnim on Plutarchs demonology 1921 | 56 |
Posidonius inspire the myth of the De facie? | 58 |
J Dillons assessment of Plutarchs philosophical position 1977 | 59 |
New light on the compositional unity and philosophical relevance of the De facie | 61 |
55 | 118 |
Ta exo in Plato and Aristotle | 120 |
71 | 126 |
83 | 129 |
The opposition between physica and exotica in the Asclepius of | 130 |
What subjects were dealt with in writings referred to in the Corpus? | 144 |
Manteia in Aristotle De Caelo II 1 | 153 |
Aristotle on people in a cave De Philosophia fr 13a Ross | 174 |
The position of the De facie myth in the tradition of Greek philosophy | 65 |
Aristotelian elements in the myth of Plutarchs De facie 1 The motif of the revelation by a Stranger | 71 |
The theme of the dreaming god Kronos | 72 |
An abode of bliss 4 Briareus as the custodian of Kronos | 73 |
The distinction between Hades and the home of the purged souls 6 The motif of Kronos imprisonment | 74 |
The motif of crime and penance | 76 |
The theme of manteia through dreams | 77 |
The reversal of perspective 10 The lightnames of the planets | 79 |
The theme of the dissolution of the soul 12 The dreams of Endymion | 81 |
an attempt at reconstruction 1 Kronology and Diology | 83 |
Aristotles criticism of the Platonic theory of the soul as the centre of his polemic against Plato | 86 |
The dreaming Kronos and the sleeping Worldsoul in Middle Platonism | 87 |
Kronology and Aristotles theory of cosmic catastrophes | 95 |
The relation between Aristotles lost writings and the surviving Corpus Aristotelicum 1 The demise of the Jaegerian paradigm | 97 |
Problems connected with Jaegers view | 99 |
The character of Aristotles lost work | 102 |
a nonPlatonic work | 105 |
The reversal of perspective in Aristotles lost work | 106 |
A first independent mythical phase in Aristotles work and a later antimythical one? | 107 |
Aristotle accept a structural distinction between two levels | 108 |
The modern debate on the interpretation of the references in | 114 |
A double theology in Aristotle De Philosophia fr 26 Ross | 185 |
Main points in the modern debate | 186 |
Critical remarks on the modern debate | 190 |
Is there an alternative? 1 The alius quidam 2 A magistro suo Platone dissentiens | 191 |
Replicatione quadam | 195 |
Is the Greek king in Aristotle Eudemus fr 11 Ross Endymion of Elis? 201 1 A fragment from one of Aristotles lost writings in an Arabian treatise | 201 |
Can the test be safely attributed to Aristotle? 3 The ecstatic experience | 204 |
The souls mantic powers 5 The imperfect liberation of the Greek kings soul | 205 |
To which Aristotelian writing does this fragment thematically belong? | 206 |
Can the Greek king be identified? | 207 |
Was the Greek king perhaps a king of Elis? | 209 |
Endymion as the representative of a human type in EN 10 8 | 211 |
The Endymion motif in a lost work by Aristotle | 212 |
Later traces of the Endymion motif from a lost work by Aristotle | 214 |
Dreaming and waking appearance and reality and the reversal of perspective in eschatological literature | 216 |
liberation and awakening | 217 |
Bibliography | 219 |
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A. P. Bos activity Arist Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's lost Arnim assume body Cael caelo celestial sphere Chapter Cherniss Cicero cognition condition connection contemplation Corpus Aristotelicum Corpus Hermeticum cosmic cosmos daemons deity demiurgic dialogues Dillon discussion distinction divine doctrine Donini dreaming Kronos Düring Endymion enkyklios Eudemus exoteric exoterikoi logoi explained facie myth fifth element gods Greek Heraclides Ponticus Hermes Hesiod human Ibid interpretation J. H. Waszink Jaeger knowledge lost writings mantic Metaph metaphysical moon Moraux motif mythical nature notion Ouranos passage perspective Phaedo Philos philosophical physics Plato Plutarch Plutarch's De facie Politicus Protr Protrepticus reality reference remarkable Ross Silenus sleep soma soul supreme Tertullian theme theology theory Timaeus Titans tradition transcendent treatise W. D. Ross W. K. C. Guthrie world archon World-soul Xenocrates Zeus γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν περὶ τὰ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῷ τῶν