STEM Ed+ Commons | D. Gregory MacIsaac | Activity https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/dgmacisaac/activity/ Activity feed for D. Gregory MacIsaac. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3b055c3de3637ab581c7e25dbbda9fae D. Gregory MacIsaac's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1915781/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:36:16 +0000 0 8a12652357cdff5d0a4a514e816e7951 D. Gregory MacIsaac's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1910871/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:37:24 +0000 0 ba7ec5295f019b3d9b7c3b478675d8ee D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The False Appearance of the Sophist Himself in the First Six Definitions of Plato’s Sophist in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900002/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:06:04 +0000 The key to how the definitions in Sophist fit together is the seventh definition, the maker of false appearances. The first six definitions are a false appearance of the sophist himself, as a businessman who sells an art of disputation to rich young men. Because this is a deception, to unmask him we need to supplement the brief descriptions in…[Read more]

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A calendar of Calls for Papers: https://endoxa.blog/cfps-calendar/

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A calendar of Calls for Papers: https://endoxa.blog/cfps-calendar/

]]> 819cd3370c97d6c91e6af87afa05f249 D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited On Proclus as a Platonic Exegete in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775527/ Wed, 23 Mar 2022 02:23:50 +0000 A response to John Finamore, “The Divided Line and the Cave in Proclus' Republic Commentary.”

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]]> 0 32d5dabb0a1409ecc9442b7b7ac2631a D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The Nous of the Partial Soul in Proclus’ Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680629/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:26:02 +0000 In this paper I will examine Proclus’ Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato in order to shed light on his doctrine of the partial soul’s nous. Proclus’ epistemology is in many ways the heart of his system. The human soul is a microcosm, and because each of its faculties corresponds to one or other order of the macrocosm, the soul’s knowled…[Read more]

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]]> 0 ea5fa04777ed332776bfad1d6a9150bc D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited Phantasia between Soul and Body in Proclus' Euclid Commentary in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680620/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:25:30 +0000 Proclus discusses imagination (phantasia) in the second prologue to his Euclid commentary. In his discussion, he describes phantasia in terms which make it seem like a passive screen, onto which geometrical figures are projected. However, he also speaks of phantasia in this text in terms which make it seem active, as if it were the projector…[Read more]

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]]> 0 3030c0977e5900ae247ae02bba37c2b3 D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited Platonic Deconstruction: A Review Essay of Stephen Gersh's Neoplatonism After Derrida https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680492/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:51:00 +0000 Neoplatonism after Derrida is a significant study of the history of philosophy, and covers ground rarely explored before, in an extremely thorough, fruitful, and persuasive manner. However, it poses serious interpretive problems for the reader. It presents an extremely detailed and complex analysis of both Neoplatonism and Derridean…[Read more]

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