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Apr 19, 2024
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Goucher College 2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PHL 227 - Neoplatonism: the Perennial Philosophy (3 Cr.)
The “neo” in “Neoplatonism” describes the appropriation of key elements in Plato’s thought in an application that Plato never intended and could not foresee. These versions of Plato’s thought are the ones that Western Culture received and that have dominated Christianity and many aspects of western culture to this day. Focusing on the origins of Neoplatonism, we study Plotinus’ Enneads in detail. We will also read Porphyry the Phoenician’s Isagoge and Boethius’, Consolation of Philosophy and trace the development of Neoplatonism into its ubiquitous modern appropriation in modern philosophy (especially Hegel’s dialectical logic), theology and literature. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor. Fall semester, offered 2014-15 and alternate years. Rose.
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