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Despite Platonism's unquestioned claim to being one of the most influential movements in the history of philosophy, for a long time the conventional wisdom was that Platonists of late antiquity, or Neoplatonists, were so focused on otherworldly metaphysics that they simply neglected any serious study of the sensible world, which after all is 'merely' an image of the intelligible world. Only recently has this conventional wisdom begun to be dispelled. In fact, it is precisely because these thinkers did see the sensible world as an image of the intelligible world that they devoted so much time and energy to understanding its inner workings. Thus we find Neoplatonists writing on embryology, physiology, meteorology, and astronomy, among other subjects. Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature collects essays by leading international scholars in the field which shed new light on how the Neoplatonists sought to understand and explain nature and natural phenomena. It is thematically divided into two parts, with the first part--The General Metaphysics of Nature--directed at the explication of central Neoplatonic metaphysical doctrines and their relation to the natural world, and the second part--Platonic Approaches to Individual Sciences--showing how these same doctrines play out in individual natural sciences such as elemental physics, geography, and biology. Together these essays show that a serious examination of Neoplatonic natural philosophy has far-reaching consequences for our general understanding of the metaphysics of Platonism as well as for our evaluation of their place in the history of science.

Neoplatonism. --- Philosophy of nature --- Néo-platonisme --- Philosophie de la nature --- History. --- Histoire --- Neoplatonism --- Néo-platonisme --- Néoplatonisme

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Das Buch behandelt und konstruiert die Epochenschwelle Antike-Mittelalter exemplarisch anhand Augustins geistiger Entwicklung als Funktion seiner historischen Situiertheit zu Beginn des 5. Jahrhunderts. Zu Beginn wird grundsätzlich die Frage nach dem Sinn von Epochenschwellen gestellt. Diese werden in vorliegender Arbeit in Anlehnung an Hans Blumenbergs Untersuchung zur Epochenschwelle Mittelalter-Neuzeit und gegen die "nominalistische Skepsis"(Flasch) als ex post konstruierte Einteilungen der Vergangenheit verstanden. Das Ziel dieser historiographischen Navigationshilfe ist die Orientierung im Rückgriff auf die eigenen Traditionen in einer ansonsten unzugänglichen Vergangenheit. Augustin als Repräsentant der Epochenschwelle bietet sich (neben anderen, plausiblen Kandidaten) insofern an, als sich bei ihm "innerer und äußerer Wandel berühren" (Peter Brown) und er neuen Umweltbedingungen begegnen musste, die in dem umfangreichen Œvre Augustins ihren Niederschlag gefunden haben. Diesem Diktum Browns entsprechend folgt der Hauptteil der Arbeit folgender Systematik: 1. Augustin auf der Schwelle 1: ,Äußerer Wandel' von der Spätantike zum frühen Mittelalter2. Augustin auf der Schwelle 2: Die Bekehrung(en) als ,innerer Wandel'3. Augustin auf der Schwelle 3: Augustinrezeption zwischen Philosophie und Theologie im Spiegel der Epochen

Augustine, --- Blumenberg, Hans --- Influence --- 276 =71 AUGUSTINUS --- Latijnse patrologie--AUGUSTINUS --- Historiography. --- History --- History, Ancient --- Middle Ages --- Philosophy. --- Blumenberg, Hans. --- Influence. --- History, Modern --- Historical criticism --- Philosophy --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Avgustin, Blazhennyĭ, --- Augustinus, Aurelius, --- Augustyn, --- Augustin, --- Ughasṭīnūs, --- Agostino, --- Agustí, --- Augoustinos, --- Aurelius Augustinus, --- Augustinus, --- Agustín, --- Aurelio Agostino, --- Episkopos Ippōnos Augoustinos, --- Augoustinos Ipponos, --- Agostinho, --- Aurelli Augustini, --- Augustini, Aurelli, --- Aurelii Augustini, --- Augustini, Aurelii, --- Ōgostinos, --- Agostino, Aurelio, --- אוגוסטינוס הקדוש --- أغسطينوس، --- 奥古斯丁 --- Medievalists --- בלומנברג, הנס --- ブル-メンベルクハンス --- Avgustin, --- Blumenberg, Hans, --- Augustinus, Aurelius --- Agostinho --- Augustine of Hippo --- Augustine d'Hippone --- Agostino d'Ippona --- Augustin d'Hippone --- Augustinus Hipponensis, sanctus --- Sant'Agostino --- Augustinus van Hippo --- Aurelius Augustinus --- Aurelio Agostino --- 聖アウグスティヌス --- アウグスティヌス --- Augustine. --- Epochal Transition. --- Philosophy of History. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Theology. --- Augustine --- Augustine, - Saint, Bishop of Hippo --- Augustine, - Saint, Bishop of Hippo - Influence --- Blumenberg, Hans, - 1920-1996

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In this volume, the idea of the body and corporeality in the philosophy of late antiquity is examined. It deals with questions of ontology, mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, anthropology, theology and aesthetics. The importance of the topic results both from its historical relevance (for the visual arts, literature, the specialist sciences, religion and general cultural history) as well as its philosophical importance. From a philosophical point of view the late antique reflection on corporeality contains an impressive array of meanings discussed in this volume.

Philosophy, Ancient. --- Human body (Philosophy) --- History.