TY - BOOK AU - Robertson,David ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Word and meaning in ancient Alexandria: theories of language from Philo to Plotinus AV - BR115.L25 R58 2008eb U1 - 401 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate Pub. Ltd. KW - Language and languages KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Philosophy KW - Christian literature, Early KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Philo -- Divine logos and human language -- Characteristics of mind -- Immateriality of mind -- The physical and the immaterial -- The nature of meaning -- The inferiority of speech -- The stoic legacy -- Clement -- The divine logos -- Dialectic and language -- The intelligibility of language -- Language, immateriality, and prayer -- Origen -- Christian platonism, psychology -- The immateriality of mind -- Voice and language -- Mind and body in language -- Other influences -- Plotinus -- The metaphysics of language -- Image and representation -- The logos of plotinus -- Limitations of language, origins of language -- The nature of language -- Soul and body, light and sound -- Language and communion -- Soul connection -- The unity of souls in politics; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10226940 ER -