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Late Antique EpistemologyOther Ways to Truth&#160;Vassilopoulou, P., Clark, S. (Eds.), 2009&#160;Late Antique Epistemology explores the techniques used by late antique philosophers to discuss truth. Non-rational ways to discover truth, or to reform the soul, have usually been thought inferior to the philosophically approved techniques of rational argument, suitable for the less philosophically inclined, for children, savages or the uneducated. Religious rituals, oracles, erotic passion, madness may all have served to waken courage or remind us of realities obscured by everyday concerns. What is unusual in the late antique classical philosophers is that these techniques were reckoned as reliable as reasoned argument, or better still. Late twentieth century commentators have offered psychological explanations of this turn, but only recently had it been accepted that there might also have been philosophical explanations, and that the later antique philosophers were not necessarily deluded.(Text by the editors)&#160;Contents&#160;Introduction - Vassilopoulou, PanayiotaPart 1 - Rituals, Religion and Reality1. Porphyry and the Debate Over Traditional Religious Practices - Busine, Aude2. St John in Amelius’ Seminar - Dillon, John3. Eternal Time and Temporal Expansion: Proclus’ Golden Ratio - Kutash, Emilie F.4. Having Sex with the One: Erotic Mysticism in Plotinus and the Problem of Metaphor - Mazur, Zeke&#160;Part II - Crossing Boundaries5. Ibn Ṭufayl and the Wisdom of the East: On Apprehending the Divine - Kukkonen, Taneli6. Plotinus, Porphyry, and India: A Re-Examination - Lacrosse, Joachim7. Animation of Statues in Ancient Civilizations and Neoplatonism - Uzdavinys, Algis&#160;Part III - Art and Poetry8. Platonists and the Teaching of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity - Heath, Maclcom9. Proclus’ Notion of Poetry - Kuisma, Oiva10. The Homeric Tradition in Ammonius and Asclepius - Manolea, Christina-Panagiota Manolea&#160;Part IV - Later Influences11. Nous and Geist: Self-Identity and Methodological Solipsism in Plotinus and Hegel - Rerchman, Robert M.12. Μεστὰ πάντα σημείων. Plotinus, Leibniz, and Berkeley on Determinism - Bertini, Daniele13. Proclus Americanus - Bregman, Jay14. Ecology’s Future Debt to Plotinus and Neoplatonism - Corrigan, Kevin15. Heathen Martyrs or Romish Idolaters: Socrates and Plato in Eighteenth-Century England - Poster, CarolConclusion - Clark, Stephen R. L.Glossary - Prepared by Crystal AddeyIndex of NamesSubject Index