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Platonic PathwaysSelected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies&#160;Edited by John F Finamore and Danielle A. Layne, 2018&#160;This anthology of 16 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2016 annual conference.(Text by the editors)&#160;Contents:&#160;The Significance of Initiation Rituals in Plato’s Meno - Michael RomeroPlato’s Timaean Psychology - John FinamoreThe Creative Thinker: A New Reading of Numenius fr. 16.10-12 - Joshua LangsethFirst Philosophy, Abstract Objects, and Divine Aseity: Aristotle and Plotinus - Robert M. BerchmanPlotinus on philia and its Empedoclean origin - Giannis StamatellosIn What Sense Does the One Exist? Existence and Hypostasis in Plotinus - Michael Wiitala and Paul DiRadoA Double-Edged Sword: Porphyry on the Perils and Profits of Demonological Inquiry - Seamus O’NeillAlienation and Divinization: Iamblichus’ Theurgic Vision - Gregory ShawIamblichus’ method for creating Theurgic Sacrifice - Sam WebsterThe Understanding of Time and Eternity in the polemic between Eunomius, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa - Tomasz StępieńTension in the soul: A Stoic/Platonic concept in Plutarch, Proclus, and Simplicius - Marilynn LawrencePeritrope in Damascius as the Apparatus of Speculative Ontology - Tyler TrittenMysticism, Apocalypticism, and Platonism - Ilaria RamelliPhilosophy and Commentary: Evaluating Simplicius on the Presocratics - Bethany ParsonsFrom Embryo to Saint: a Thomist Account of Being Human - Melissa Rovig Vanden BoutFrom the Neoplatonizing Christian Gnosticism of Philip K. Dick to the Neoplatonizing Hermetic Gnosticism of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Jay Bregman