Selections From the Prometheus Trust Conferences, 2006-2010

Edited by Linda H Woodward. This volume brings together 14 papers presented at the first five annual conferences of the Prometheus Trust. The collection attempts to reflect the nature of these conferences, which bring together academic specialists, academics stepping outside their specialism, and non-academics. The hope is that the contributors are drawn by a common love of wisdom so that each is willing to cross those mental boundaries which habit so often allows – almost unnoticed – to circumscribe our understanding, and each is willing to share the insights of their own pursuit of truth in whatever fields and down whatever paths they have chosen. 224 pages. Paperback. Contents Are you a Platonist? - John H. Spencer Speaking the vision - Martha Lyn Autonomy and the justification of philosophy - Mark Piper Pagan polytheism, the theoi meilichioi and the theoi maimaktikoi in Graeco-Roman mysteries - Isha Gamlath Suhrawardi and Plotinus on self-knowledge as illumination - Samir Mahmoud