Matthias Vorwerk
Associate Professor
School of Philosophy
Catholic University of America
United States of America
Biography
1995-1998 Ph.D. in Greek and Latin Philology and in Philosophy (summa cum laude), University of Münster, Germany Doctoral dissertation: Plotinus, On Intellect, Ideas and Being (Enn. V 9 [5]). Text, translation, and commentary (director: Matthias Baltes) 1988-1994 Degree in Greek and Latin Philology (“Staatsexamen”), University of Münster.
Research Interest
Ancient philosophy, Plato, Plotinus, Neoplatonism, Philosophy of Human Nature.
Publications
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“Der Arzt, der Koch und die Kinder: Rhetorik und Philosophie im Wettstreit.†In Gorgias — Menon. Selected Papers from the Seventh Symposium Platonicum, edited by M. Erler and L. Brisson, 297–302. International Plato Studies 25. St. Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2007.
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“Plotinus and the Parmenides; Problems of Interpretation.†In Plato’s Parmenides and Its Heritage. Vol. 2, Reception in Patristic, Gnostic, and Christian Neoplatonic Texts, edited by J. D. Turner and K. Corrigan, 23–33. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010.
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“Maker or Father? Plotinus on the Demiurge.†In One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today, edited by R. D. Mohr and B. M. Sattler, 79–100. Las Vegas, Zurich, and Athens: Parmenides Publishing, 2010.
