This volume dispels the idea that Platonism was an otherworldly enterprise which neglected the study of the natural world. Leading scholars examine how the Plat

Traditional scholarship has generally neglected the philosophy of nature in Greek Neoplatonism. In the last few decades, however, this attitude has changed radi

This collection of essays written by leading Whitehead scholars bridges two important philosophical movements in Western philosophy separated by many centuries:

Original essays by leading scholars on Plotinus' philosophy of nature.

The Neoplatonists have a perfectionist view of freedom: an entity is free to the extent that it succeeds in making itself good. Free entities are wholly in cont