Robinson's Podcast
Robinson's Podcast
Robinson Erhardt
71 - Peter Adamson: Plotinus, Porphyry, and Neoplatonism
1 hour 32 minutes Posted Apr 3, 2023 at 3:30 pm.
Introduction
What’s Interesting About Neoplatonism?
The Etymology of “Neoplatonism”
Where was Neoplatonism?
The Great Plotinus
Plotinus’ Metaphysics
Plotinus and Theology
Plotinus on Evil
Porphyry, His Logic, and Arguments for Vegetarianism CLIP
Iamblichus
Proclus
0:00
1:32:11
Download MP3
Show notes
Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London. He’s also the host of the podcast History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps and the author of the book series by the same name. Robinson and Peter talk about Neoplatonism—a philosophical movement in late antiquity—and its great thinkers, including Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus, as well as the many issues they thought and wrote about, such as evil, theology, logic, and vegetarianism. 
OUTLINE:
Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com
Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.