Home Publications and Scholarly Work Books The One and its Relation to Intellect in Plotinus: A Commentary on Selected Texts, Philosophia Antiqua Vol. 49, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1988. 258p. Essays & Book Chapters “Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy of Mythology,” The European Legacy. Special Issue: “Philosophy: The Longing for Myth” - Guest Editors: Harold Tarrant & Rick Benitez, Vol. 12.2 (2007): 187-198. Link “Plotinus on the Being of the One,” in Metaphysical Patterns in Platonism: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern, ed. John Finamore & Robert Berchman, pp. 57-72, University Press of the South 2007. Link “Socrates and Religious Experience,” in The Blackwell Companion to Socrates, pp. 200-213, ed. S. Ahbel-Rappe & R. Kamtekar, Blackwell 2006. Link “New Editions of Iamblichus: A Review Essay,” Ancient Philosophy 25.2 (2005): 478-494. Link “The Roots of Platonism and Vedanta,” International Journal of Hindu Studies 9 (2005): 1-20. Link “The Limits of Rationalism in Socratic Philosophy,” Skepsis 15 (2004): 51-64. “Philosophy, Theology, and Magic: Gods and Forms in Iamblichus,” in Metaphysik und Religion: Zur Signatur des spätantiken Denkens, ed. T. Kobusch & M. Erler, pp. 39-61, K. G. Saur Verlag, München 2002. Link “Mystical Theology and Spiritual Experience in Proclus’ Platonic Theology” in “Theologia Platonia”. Recueil d’études sur la Théologie Platonicienne de Proclus, en hommage à Henri-Donimique Saffrey et Leendert Gerrit Westerink, ed. C. Steel, pp. 291-310, Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2000. Link “Socrates the Mystic,” in Traditions of Platonism: Essays Presented to John Dillon, ed. John Cleary, pp. 29-51, Ashgate Publishing 1999. Link Review of Peter Kingsley, Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 422. $62.00. ISBN 0-19-814988-3. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.10.19. Link “Plotinian Mysticism in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 71 (1997): 339-365. Link “Non-discursive Thought in Plotinus and Proclus,” Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 8 (1997): 191-210. “The Metaphysics of the One,” in The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus, ed. L. Gerson, pp. 38-65, Cambridge University Press 1996. Link “Realism and Idealism in Plotinus,” Hermathena 157 (1994): 21-42. “Mystical Elements in the Thought of Plotinus,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt II.36.7: 5300-5330, ed. H. Temporini & W. Haase, pp. 5300-5330, De Gruyter, Tübingen 1994. “The Invulnerability of Goodness in the Ethics and Psychology of Plotinus,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Vol. VI (1990): 151-184. “Plotinus on the Inner Life of the One,” Ancient Philosophy 7 (1987): 163–89. “A Theoretical Interpretation of Hesiod’s Chaos,” Classical Philology 78 (1983): 212–19; reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Vol. 5, ed. Jelena Krspovic, Gale Research (1990): 163-66. Work in Progress “Ethics in Ancient India” in Grundlagen der Antiken Ethik / Foundations of Ancient Ethics, ed. J. Hardy and G. Rudebusch, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht (forthcoming 2009). Neoplatonic Mysticism in Late Antiquity: Selected Texts in Translation with Introduction & Commentary, Classics of Western Spirituality Series, Paulist Press, (forthcoming). The Continuum Companion to Socrates, ed. John Bussanich and Nicholas D. Smith, Continuum Publishing (forthcoming). Editor: The Art of Living: Essays by A.K. Coomaraswamy, Fons Vitae Press. Home

Publications and Scholarly Work

Books

The One and its Relation to Intellect in Plotinus: A Commentary on Selected Texts, Philosophia Antiqua Vol. 49, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1988. 258p.

Essays & Book Chapters

•“Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy of Mythology,” The European Legacy. Special Issue: “Philosophy: The Longing for Myth” - Guest Editors: Harold Tarrant & Rick Benitez, Vol. 12.2 (2007): 187-198. Link
•“Plotinus on the Being of the One,” in Metaphysical Patterns in Platonism: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern, ed. John Finamore & Robert Berchman, pp. 57-72, University Press of the South 2007. Link
•“Socrates and Religious Experience,” in The Blackwell Companion to Socrates, pp. 200-213, ed. S. Ahbel-Rappe & R. Kamtekar, Blackwell 2006. Link
•“New Editions of Iamblichus: A Review Essay,” Ancient Philosophy 25.2 (2005): 478-494. Link
•“The Roots of Platonism and Vedanta,” International Journal of Hindu Studies 9 (2005): 1-20. Link
•“The Limits of Rationalism in Socratic Philosophy,” Skepsis 15 (2004): 51-64.
•“Philosophy, Theology, and Magic: Gods and Forms in Iamblichus,” in Metaphysik und Religion: Zur Signatur des spätantiken Denkens, ed. T. Kobusch & M. Erler, pp. 39-61, K. G. Saur Verlag, München 2002. Link
•“Mystical Theology and Spiritual Experience in Proclus’ Platonic Theology” in “Theologia Platonia”. Recueil d’études sur la Théologie Platonicienne de Proclus, en hommage à Henri-Donimique Saffrey et Leendert Gerrit Westerink, ed. C. Steel, pp. 291-310, Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2000. Link
•“Socrates the Mystic,” in Traditions of Platonism: Essays Presented to John Dillon, ed. John Cleary, pp. 29-51, Ashgate Publishing 1999. Link
•Review of Peter Kingsley, Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 422. $62.00. ISBN 0-19-814988-3. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.10.19. Link
•“Plotinian Mysticism in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 71 (1997): 339-365. Link
•“Non-discursive Thought in Plotinus and Proclus,” Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 8 (1997): 191-210.
•“The Metaphysics of the One,” in The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus, ed. L. Gerson, pp. 38-65, Cambridge University Press 1996. Link
•“Realism and Idealism in Plotinus,” Hermathena 157 (1994): 21-42.
•“Mystical Elements in the Thought of Plotinus,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt II.36.7: 5300-5330, ed. H. Temporini & W. Haase, pp. 5300-5330, De Gruyter, Tübingen 1994.
•“The Invulnerability of Goodness in the Ethics and Psychology of Plotinus,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Vol. VI (1990): 151-184.
•“Plotinus on the Inner Life of the One,” Ancient Philosophy 7 (1987): 163–89.
•“A Theoretical Interpretation of Hesiod’s Chaos,” Classical Philology 78 (1983): 212–19; reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Vol. 5, ed. Jelena Krspovic, Gale Research (1990): 163-66.

Work in Progress

•“Ethics in Ancient India” in Grundlagen der Antiken Ethik / Foundations of Ancient Ethics, ed. J. Hardy and G. Rudebusch, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht (forthcoming 2009).
•Neoplatonic Mysticism in Late Antiquity: Selected Texts in Translation with Introduction & Commentary, Classics of Western Spirituality Series, Paulist Press, (forthcoming).
•The Continuum Companion to Socrates, ed. John Bussanich and Nicholas D. Smith, Continuum Publishing (forthcoming).
•Editor: The Art of Living: Essays by A.K. Coomaraswamy, Fons Vitae Press.

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