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Author | : George Boys-Stones |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2017-12-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108229484 |
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'Middle' Platonism has some claim to be the single most influential philosophical movement of the last two thousand years, as the common background to 'Neoplatonism' and the early development of Christian theology. This book breaks with the tradition of considering it primarily in terms of its sources, instead putting its contemporary philosophical engagements front and centre to reconstruct its philosophical motivations and activity across the full range of its interests. The volume explores the ideas at the heart of Platonist philosophy in this period and includes a comprehensive selection of primary sources, a significant number of which appear in English translation for the first time, along with dedicated guides to the questions that have been, and might be, asked about the movement. The result is a tool intended to help bring the study of Middle Platonism into mainstream discussions of ancient philosophy.
Author | : George Boys-Stones |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2017-12-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521838580 |
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'Middle' Platonism has some claim to be the single most influential philosophical movement of the last two thousand years, as the common background to 'Neoplatonism' and the early development of Christian theology. This book breaks with the tradition of considering it primarily in terms of its sources, instead putting its contemporary philosophical engagements front and centre to reconstruct its philosophical motivations and activity across the full range of its interests. The volume explores the ideas at the heart of Platonist philosophy in this period and includes a comprehensive selection of primary sources, a significant number of which appear in English translation for the first time, along with dedicated guides to the questions that have been, and might be, asked about the movement. The result is a tool intended to help bring the study of Middle Platonism into mainstream discussions of ancient philosophy.
Author | : John M. Dillon |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801483165 |
Download The Middle Platonists, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Table of Contents Preface Abbreviations 1 The Old Academy and the Themes of Middle Platonism 1 2 Antiochus of Ascalon: The Turn to Dogmatism 52 3 Platonism at Alexandria: Eudorus and Philo 114 4 Plutarch of Chaeroneia and the Origins of Second-Century Platonism 184 5 The Athenian School in the Second Century A.D. 231 6 The 'School of Gaius': Shadow and Substance 266 7 The Neopythagoreans 341 8 Some Loose Ends 384 Bibliography 416 Afterword 422 General Index 453 Index of Platonic Passages 458 Modern Authorities Quoted 459.
Author | : George Boys-Stones |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1047 |
Release | : 2017-12-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108228097 |
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'Middle' Platonism has some claim to be the single most influential philosophical movement of the last two thousand years, as the common background to 'Neoplatonism' and the early development of Christian theology. This book breaks with the tradition of considering it primarily in terms of its sources, instead putting its contemporary philosophical engagements front and centre to reconstruct its philosophical motivations and activity across the full range of its interests. The volume explores the ideas at the heart of Platonist philosophy in this period and includes a comprehensive selection of primary sources, a significant number of which appear in English translation for the first time, along with dedicated guides to the questions that have been, and might be, asked about the movement. The result is a tool intended to help bring the study of Middle Platonism into mainstream discussions of ancient philosophy.
Author | : George Boys-Stones |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2020-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198857327 |
Download Post-Hellenistic Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book traces, for the first time, a revolution in philosophy which took place during the early centuries of our era. It reconstructs the philosophical basis of the Stoics' theory that fragments of an ancient and divine wisdom could be reconstructed from mythological traditions, and shows that Platonism was founded on an argument that Plato had himself achieved a full reconstruction of this wisdom, and that subsequent philosophies had only regressed once again in their attempts to 'improve' on his achievement. The significance of this development is highlighted through parallel studies of the Hellenistic debate over the status of Jewish culture; and of the philosophical beginnings of Christianity, where the notions of 'orthodoxy' and 'heresy' in particular are shown to be tools in the construction of a unified history of Christian philosophy stretching back to primitive antiquity.
Author | : Michael Erler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2021-03-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108844006 |
Download Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sheds light on the meaning, import and philosophical outlook of the notion of authority throughout the Platonist tradition.
Author | : John M. Dillon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Neoplatonism |
ISBN | : 9780715610916 |
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'Middle Platonists' is a work that focuses on the period of intellectual activity which flourished from the time of the "dogmatist" Antiochus Aschalon (ca. 80 BC) to Ammonius Saccas (ca. 220 AD), the mysterious "teacher" of the great Plotinus.
Author | : R. W. Sharples |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-10-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139491520 |
Download Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a collection of sources, many of them fragmentary and previously scattered and hard to access, for the development of Peripatetic philosophy in the later Hellenistic period and the early Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations which continue to be influential even today. Many of the passages are here translated into English for the first time, including the whole of the summary of Peripatetic ethics attributed to 'Arius Didymus'.
Author | : Max J. Lee |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2020-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3161496604 |
Download Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Max J. Lee examines the philosophies of Platonism and Stoicism during the Greco-Roman era and their rivals including Diaspora Judaism and Pauline Christianity on how to transform a person's character from vice to virtue. He describes each philosophical school's respective teachings on diverse moral topoi such as emotional control, ethical action and habit, character formation, training, mentorship, and deity." --provided by publisher
Author | : Simon Swain |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2007-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191569496 |
Download Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Polemon of Laodicea (near modern Denizli, south-west Turkey) was a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a key member of the intellectual movement known as the Second Sophistic. Among his works was the Physiognomy, a manual on how to tell character from appearance, thus enabling its readers to choose friends and avoid enemies on sight. Its formula of detailed instruction and personal reminiscence proved so successful that the book was re-edited in the fourth century by Adamantius in Greek, translated and adapted by an unknown Latin author of the same era, and translated in the early Middle Ages into Syriac and Arabic. The surviving versions of Adamantius, Anonymus Latinus, and the Leiden Arabic more than make up for the loss of the original. The present volume is the work of a team of leading Classicists and Arabists. The main surviving versions in Greek and Latin are translated into English for the first time. The Leiden Arabic translation is authoritatively re-edited and translated, as is a sample of the alternative Arabic Polemon. The texts and translations are introduced by a series of masterly studies that tell the story of the origins, function, and legacy of Polemon's work, a legacy especially rich in Islam. The story of the Physiognomy is the story of how one man's obsession with identifying enemies came to be taken up in the fascinating transmission of Greek thought into Arabic.