Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Professor of Greek and Latin

rappe@umich.edu

Office Information:

Rm 2131, 435 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
phone: 734.936.6096

Classics; Classical Studies

Education/Degree:

B.A. '81, M.A. '85, Ph.D. '91, Berkeley

About

Special Interests:

Classical and Hellenistic philosophy
Neo-Platonism
Philosophy of language

Selected Publications:
Reading Neoplatonism
Translation of Damascius' Doubts and Solutions Concerning First Principles (forthcoming)
Blackwell Companion to Socrates (co-editor; forthcoming)
articles and chapters on Socrates, Neoplatonism, Cynics, and late antique religion

Field(s) of Study

Classical and Hellenistic philosophy
neo-Platonism
philosophy of language

About

Special Interests:

Classical and Hellenistic philosophy
Neo-Platonism
Philosophy of language

Field(s) of Study

Classical and Hellenistic philosophy
neo-Platonism
philosophy of language

Highlighted Work and Publications

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Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles (Aar Religions in Translation)

Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the Late Academy. Its survey of Neoplatonist metaphysics, discussion of transcendence, and compendium of late antique theologies, make it unique among all extant works of late antique philosophy. It has never before been translated into English.

The Problems and Solutions exhibits a thorough going critique of Proclean metaphysics, starting with the principle...