Neither One Nor Many: God and the Gods in Plotinus, Proclus, and Aquinas

Eric D. Perl is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles). He received his PhD from Yale University in 1991. He is the author of Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite (State University of New York Press, 2007), and has published numerous articles on Plato, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, and other figures in the Platonic tradition. He is currently working on a study called Thinking Being: The Continuity of Classical Metaphysics, addressing Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Thomas Aquinas. He can be reached at eperl@lmu.edu.