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This chapter provides an overview of late antique and medieval transformative philosophies. The first section discusses the following key topics: Plotinus’s transformative system of philosophy, his development of key elements of Plato’s thought, and his own unique positions; methodological modifications and changing contexts in the Neoplatonic transformation of the soul in Porphyry and Iamblichus; Augustine’s Judeo-Christian adaptation and alteration of such key elements of transformative philosophy; and Proclus’s system of anagogic self-transformation toward the One–Good. The second section focuses on additional aspects of transformative philosophy in medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Neoplatonic lore, namely regarding Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Boethius, Eriugena, Isaac Israeli, Ibn Sina, Master Eckhart, Nicolaus de Cusa, and others.

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Late Antique and Medieval Transformative Philosophies

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    2026年

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  • David Bartosch

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This chapter provides an overview of late antique and medieval transformative philosophies. The first section discusses the following key topics: Plotinus’s transformative system of philosophy, his development of key elements of Plato’s thought, and his own unique positions; methodological modifications and changing contexts in the Neoplatonic transformation of the soul in Porphyry and Iamblichus; Augustine’s Judeo-Christian adaptation and alteration of such key elements of transformative philosophy; and Proclus’s system of anagogic self-transformation toward the One–Good. The second section focuses on additional aspects of transformative philosophy in medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Neoplatonic lore, namely regarding Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Boethius, Eriugena, Isaac Israeli, Ibn Sina, Master Eckhart, Nicolaus de Cusa, and others.