Education
Ph.D. in Classics and Philosophy, University of Münster, Germany, 1998
M.A. (“Staatsexamen”) in Classics, University of Münster, 1994
Awards
Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2001-2003
Member of the Academia Platonica Septima Monasteriensis, 2005
Areas of Specialization
Ancient philosophy, Plato, Plotinus, Neoplatonism, philosophical hymnology
Publications
Books:
Plotins Schrift "Über den Geist, die Ideen und das Seiende" (Enneade V 9 [5]). Text, translation, commentary. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 145. Munich – Leipzig: Saur, 2001.
Co-edited Books:
Der Platonismus in der Antike. Grundlagen – System – Entwicklung. Index zu den Bänden 1–4. Compiled by M. Baltes in collaboration with A. Hüffmeier, M.-L. Lakmann and M. Vorwerk. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1997.
Baltes, M., DIANOHMATA. Kleine Schriften zu Platon und zum Platonismus. Edited by A. Hüffmeier, M.-L. Lakmann and M. Vorwerk. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 123. Stuttgart – Leipzig: Teubner, 1999.
In Pursuit
of “Wissenschaft.” Festschrift in Honor of William M. Calder III, On the
Occasion of his 75th Birthday.
Edited by St. Heilen, R. Kirstein, R. Scott Smith, St. Trzaskoma, R. van der
Wal, and M. Vorwerk. Hildesheim, Zürich, and New York: Olms, 2008.
Articles:
"Plato on Virtue: Definitions of 'sophrosune' in Plato's Charmides and in Plotinus, Enneads 1.2 (19)." American Journal of Philology 122 (2001): 29-47.
"Mythos und Kosmos. Zur Topographie des Jenseits im Er–Mythos des Platonischen Staates (614 b 2 - 616 b 1)." Philologus 146 (2002): 46-64.
"Zauber oder Argument? Die 'epoidoi muthoi' in Platon, Nomoi X (903 A 10–905 D 1)." In Plato's Laws: From Theory into Practice. Proceedings of the VI Symposium Platonicum. Selected papers.
Edited by S. Scolnicov and L. Brisson,
81-86. International Plato Studies 15. St. Augustin: Academia, 2003.
"Citizenship of the Heavenly Fatherland: A Platonist Alternative to the Stoic Concept of Cosmopolitanism. " In Polis and Cosmopolis: Problems of a Global Era. Vol. 2.
Edited by K. Boudouris,
230-40. Athens: Ionia Publications, 2003.
"Der
Arzt, der Koch und die Kinder: Rhetorik und Philosophie im Wettstreit."
In
Gorgias -- Menon. Selected Papers from the Seventh
Symposium Platonicum. Ed. by M. Erler and L. Brisson. International Plato
Studies 25, 297-302. St. Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2007.
Reviews:
Neoplatonic Philosophy. Introductory Readings. Edited by J. Dillon and L. P. Gerson. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett, 2004. In Classical Review 56 (2006): 88.
Proclus. On
the Existence of Evils. Translated by J. Opsomer and C. Steel. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press
2003. In Review of Metaphysics 60 (2007): 283-284.
O’Meara,
Dominic J. Platonopolis. Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. In Review of Metaphysics 61
(2008): 653-55.
Courses taught (since 2003)
PHIL 201 The Classical Mind
PHIL 202 The Modern Mind
PHIL 310 Philosophy of Art
PHIL 313 Philosophy of Human Nature
PHIL 747 Plotinus
PHIL 754 The Problem of Evil in Neoplatonic Philosophy
PHIL 774 Plato's Phaedo
