Studies On The Neoplatonist Hierocles

by Hadot, Ilsetraut; Chase, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780871699411
• ISBN10: 0871699419
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Diane Pub Co

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Biographical Elements	1	(4)
Hierocles' Ideas on the History of Platonic Philosophy	5	(10)
Photius' summaries of Hierocles' treatise On Providence	5	(6)
The development of Platonic philosophy according to Hierocles	11	(4)
Hierocles' Philosophical Ideas on Matter, the Demiurge, and the Soul	15	(84)
Photius' summaries concerning the Demiurge and matter	15	(1)
Matter engendered outside of time: a Neoplatonic doctrine since Porphyry	16	(5)
Two texts by Porphyry on the fact that matter does not preexist	21	(3)
For Hierocles, as for Neoplatonists, the Demiurge creates without preexisting matter, from all eternity, by his being and his will alone	24	(6)
Hierocles' Demiurge has a ternary structure reflected in the three classes of souls	30	(6)
Hierocles' doctrine of the vehicle of the soul is post-Iamblichean	36	(7)
Hierocles' doctrine of the three classes of souls is post-Iamblichean	43	(4)
Theurgy	47	(3)
The essence of the human soul is subject to a kind of alteration	50	(6)
The attributes of the Demiurge: king, father, Zeus, and tetrad in Hierocles and their Neoplatonic background	56	(5)
Hierocles' Demiurge cannot be the supreme principle	61	(2)
The ontological position of the Demiurge in Hierocles' philosophical system	63	(36)
An interpretation of Hierocles' text on the theology of numbers	63	(19)
The historical background	82	(17)
Hierocles' Philosophical Ideas on Providence	99	(28)
The definition of Providence	101	(2)
The definition of the function of Heimarmene	103	(6)
Some negative definitions of the essence of Heimarmene	109	(1)
The relations between Providence and Heimarmene	110	(4)
Heimarmene, contingence, free will	114	(4)
The relations between Heimarmene and demons	118	(4)
The limits of free will	122	(1)
Conclusions	123	(4)
Bibliography	127	(6)
Indexes	133	(10)
Index of names and notions	133	(10)
Index of texts cited	143