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71 - Peter Adamson: Plotinus, Porphyry, and Neoplatonism

71 - Peter Adamson: Plotinus, Porphyry, and Neoplatonism

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Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy
at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Professor of
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London. He’s
also the host of the podcast History of Philosophy Without Any
Gaps and the author of the book series by the same name. Robinson
and Peter talk about Neoplatonism—a philosophical movement in
late antiquity—and its great thinkers, including Plotinus,
Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus, as well as the many issues
they thought and wrote about, such as evil, theology, logic, and
vegetarianism.

OUTLINE:

02:14 Introduction

7:30 What’s Interesting About Neoplatonism?

5:35 The Etymology of “Neoplatonism”

11:36 Where was Neoplatonism?

19:48 The Great Plotinus

23:56 Plotinus’ Metaphysics

32:30 Plotinus and Theology

39:46 Plotinus on Evil

1:00:15 Porphyry, His Logic, and Arguments for Vegetarianism CLIP

1:18:31 Iamblichus

1:24:02 Proclus

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