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    Proclus vs Plotinus on Matter (De mal. subs. 30-7 ).Jan Opsomer - 2001 - Phronesis 46 (2):154-188.
    In "De malorum subsistentia" chs 30-7, Proclus criticizes the view that evil is to be identified with matter. His main target is Plotinus' account in Enn. I,8 [51]. Proclus denies that matter is the cause of evil in the soul, and that it is evil or a principle of evil. According to Proclus, matter is good, because it is produced by the One. Plotinus' doctrine of matter-evil is the result of a different conception of emanation, according to which matter does (...)
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  2. In Search of the Truth. Academic Tendencies in Middle Platonism.Jan Opsomer - 2000 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 62 (3):586-586.
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    In search of the truth: academic tendencies in middle platonism.Jan Opsomer - 1998 - Brussel: Paleis der Academiën Hertogsstraat I.
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    A much misread proposition from Proclus' elements of theology.Jan Opsomer - 2015 - Classical Quarterly 65 (1):433-438.
    Proposition 28 from Proclus'Elements of Theologyis consistently cited as saying that every producing causefirstbrings about effects that are like it andtheneffects that are unlike it. This is a theorem to which Proclus is indeed committed, but I argue that it is not what Proclus is claiming here. At this stage of his general argument, he merely argues that every cause produces things that are like it, without saying anything about other products than the immediate ones. The standard interpretation of proposition (...)
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  5. The Natural World.Jan Opsomer - 2016 - In Pieter D'Hoine & Marije Martijn (eds.), All From One: A Guide to Proclus. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    In recent years, it has become clear that Proclus has an elaborate metaphysics, not only of the higher realm, but also of the natural world. This chapter first delimits its topic by explaining what physics or philosophy of nature is in Proclus’ view: the hypothetical study of all causes, but especially the transcendent causes of the natural world. After briefly addressing the question whether the world is eternal, the author moves on to presenting these causes in due order: first the (...)
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    Some Problems with Plotinus' Theory of Matter/Evil. An Ancient Debate Continued.Jan Opsomer - 2007 - Quaestio 7 (1):165-189.
  7. The middle Platonic doctrine of conditional fate.Jan Opsomer - 2014 - In Pieter D' Hoine, Gerd van Riel & Carlos G. Steel (eds.), Fate, providence and moral responsibility in ancient, medieval and early modern thought: studies in honour of Carlos Steel. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
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    Mathematical Explanation and the Philosophy of Nature in Late Ancient Philosophy: Astronomy and the Theory of the Elements.Jan2 Opsomer - 2012 - Documenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 23:65-106.
    Late ancient Platonists discuss two theories in which geometric entities xplain natural phenomena : the regular polyhedra of geometric atomism and the ccentrics and epicycles of astronomy. Simplicius explicitly compares the status of the first to the hypotheses of the astronomers. The point of omparison is the fallibility of both theories, not the reality of the entities postulated. Simplicius has strong realist commitments as far as astronomy is concerned. Syrianus and Proclus, too, do not consider the polyhedra as devoid of (...)
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    Teksten bekleed met autoriteit: Een model voor de analyse van epistemische autoriteit in commentaartradities.Saskia Arets & Jan Opsomer - 2017 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 79 (2):277-294.
    ‘Authority’ is a term widely used in scholarly debate, including the history of philosophy. However, what is meant by this term is not always clear and the concept is not very well defined. One reason for this is certainly that the phenomenon itself is complex and the corresponding terms are used with a degree of latitude. This makes it difficult to adequately compare and connect the insights that various case studies have to offer. For historians of philosophy, it is thus (...)
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    The origins of the Platonic system: Platonisms of the early empire and their philosophical contexts.Mauro Bonazzi & Jan Opsomer (eds.) - 2009 - Walpole, MA: Éditions Peeters / Société des études classiques.
    From the 1st century BC onwards followers of Plato began to systematize Plato's thought. These attempts went in various directions and were subjected to all kinds of philosophical influences, especially Aristotelian, Stoic, and Pythagorean. The result was a broad variety of Platonisms without orthodoxy. That would only change with Plotinus. This volume, being the fruit of the collaboration among leading scholars in the field, addresses a number of aspects of this period of system building with substantial contributions on Antiochus and (...)
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    Utopias in Ancient Thought.Pierre Destrée, Jan Opsomer & Geert Roskam (eds.) - 2021 - de Gruyter.
    This collection deals with utopias in the Greek and Roman worlds, both in philosophy (with chapters on Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, Stoics and Cicero), and in other literary genres such as comedy (Aristophanes) and parody (Lucian) as well as histor.
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    Logic and Exegesis: The Logical Reconstruction of Arguments in the Greek Commentary Tradition.Pieter D’Hoine, Jan Opsomer & Irini-Fotini Viltanioti - 2021 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 24 (1):1-2.
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  13. A Note On Plutarch Fragment 126.Jan Opsomer - 1992 - Hermes 120 (2):248-249.
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    Alexander of Aphrodisias, De Intellectu 110.4: 'I Heard this from Aristotle'. A modest proposal.Jan Opsomer & Bob Sharples - 2000 - Classical Quarterly 50 (01):252-.
    The treatise De intellectu attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias can be divided into four sections. The first is an interpretation of the Aristotelian theory of intellect, and especially of the active intellect referred to in Aristotle, De anima 3.5, which differs from the interpretation in Alexander's own De anima, and whose relation to Alexander's De anima, attribution to Alexander, and date are all disputed. The second is an account of the intellect which is broadly similar to A though differing on (...)
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  15. Ancient Utopian Thought.Jan Opsomer & Pierre Destrée (eds.) - 2021
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    A versatile gentleman. Consistency in Plutarch’s writing.Jan Opsomer, Geert Roskam & Frances B. Titchener (eds.) - 2016 - Leuven University Press.
    Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober historian and a teller of wondrous tales. In view (...)
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    Is a planet happier than a star? Cosmopolitanism in Plutarch's On Exile.Jan Opsomer - 2002 - In Philip Stadter & Luc Van der Stockt (eds.), Sage and Emperor. Plutarch, Greek Intellectuals, and Roman Power in the Time of Trajan (98-117 A.D. Leuven University Press.
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    Myrto Hatzimichali, Potamo of Alexandria and the Emergence of Eclecticism in Late Hellenistic Philosophy.Jan Opsomer - 2012 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 74 (4):800-801.
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    Platonismus.Jan Opsomer - 2011 - In Christof Rapp & Klaus Corcilius (eds.), Aristoteles-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung. Stuttgart: Metzler. pp. 477-484.
    Die Wiederentdeckung der esoterischen Schriften des Aristoteles hat bei der Neugründung des dogmatischen Platonismus ab dem 1. Jh. v. Chr. eine entscheidende Rolle gespielt. Wie die aristotelischen Texte wurden auch die Dialoge Platons einer exegetisch-hermeneutischen Behandlung unterzogen, jeweils mit dem Ziel, die Philosophie des Schulgründers zu systematisieren. Bei der Entwicklung des platonischen Systems konnte der Aristotelismus ein technisches Vokabular sowie ein logisches und analytisches Instrumentarium liefern. Zudem ließen sich Ergänzungen finden für solche Bereiche, für die keine platonische Behandlung vorlag.
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    Plutarch's defence of the τηε ages, in defence of socratic philosophy?Jan Opsomer - 1997 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 141 (1):114-136.
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    Paragraph Two Syrianus on Homonymy and Forms.Jan Opsomer - 2004 - In Carlos G. Steel, Gerd van Riel, Caroline Macé & Leen van Campe (eds.), Platonic ideas and concept formation in ancient and medieval thought. Leuven: Leuven University Press. pp. 32--31.
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    (1 other version)Review. Die Allseele in Platons Timaios. M von Perger.Jan Opsomer - 1999 - The Classical Review 49 (2):430-431.
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    Self-motion according to Iamblichus.Jan Opsomer - 2012 - Elenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 33 (2):259-290.
    Iamblichus' theory of self-motion has to be pieced together from various texts and passing remarks. Ever since Aristotle's critique, Plato's concept of the self-motive soul was felt to be problematic. Taking his lead from Plotinus, Iamblichus counters Aristotle's criticism by claiming that true self-motion transcends the opposition between activity and passivity. He moreover argues that it does not involve motion that is spatially extended. Hence it is non-physical. Primary self-motion is the reversion of the soul to itself, by which the (...)
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  24. Syrianus on homonymy and forms.Jan Opsomer - 2004 - In Carlos G. Steel, Gerd van Riel, Caroline Macé & Leen van Campe (eds.), Platonic ideas and concept formation in ancient and medieval thought. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
     
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    The Apologist of Anger? Aristotle on an Emotion.Jan Opsomer - 2015 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 77 (4):701-717.
    Aristotle examines emotions in different works and from different perspectives. Ontologically, they are categorized as passing qualitative states of the soul. Yet they have both a bodily and a psychological aspect. While a proper definition of any emotion would need to render both aspects, in his Rhetoric Aristotle merely offers nominal definitions of emotions in general and of single emotions. He produces a sophisticated analysis of anger, which he defines as a response to a perceived slight. The angry person seeks (...)
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    On the existence of evils. Proclus, Jan Opsomer & Carlos G. Steel - 2003 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. Edited by Jan Opsomer & Carlos G. Steel.
    He also protected higher causes from responsibility by saying that evil may result from a combination of goods. Proclus objects: evil is real, and not the mere privation of form. Rather, it is a parasite feeding off good. Parasites have no proper cause, and higher beings are thus vindicated as being the causes only of the good off which evil feeds."--BOOK JACKET.
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    Der Platoniker Tauros in der Darstellung des Aulus Gellius. [REVIEW]Jan Opsomer - 1997 - Mnemosyne 50 (2):235-242.
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    Natural Law - (W.) Kullmann Naturgesetz in der Vorstellung der Antike, besonders der Stoa. Eine Begriffsuntersuchung. (Philosophie der Antike 30.) Pp. 189. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2010. Cased, €39. ISBN: 978-3-515-09633-1. [REVIEW]Jan Opsomer - 2012 - The Classical Review 62 (1):89-91.
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    Selbstbetrachtungen und Selbstdarstellungen: der Philosoph und Kaiser Marc Aurel im interdisziplinären Licht: Akten des Interdisziplinären Kolloquiums Köln 23. bis 25. Juli 2009 = Meditations and representations: the philosopher and emperor Marcus Aurelius in an interdisciplinary light.Marcel van Ackeren & Jan Opsomer (eds.) - 2012 - Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag.
    English Summary: Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor and the last important ancient stoic philosopher. His Meditations are one of the most widely read and known ancient works. Thus, research on this emperor has spread across an almost unprecedented number of scientific disciplines. This volume, which originated at the first conference on Marcus Aurelius, held in Cologne in 2009, reunites publishes recent research in history, archaeology, philosophy, philology, numismatics, rhetoric, legal studies, and literature. German text. German Description: Marc Aurel war romischer (...)
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