The Platonic Heritage
The Platonic Heritage

Author: John Dillon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1351219200

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This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition. Once again, the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the Old Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism, to the Neoplatonists and beyond. Particular concerns evidenced in the papers are the continuities in the Platonic tradition, and the setting of philosophers in their social and cultural contexts, while at the same time teasing out the philosophical implications of particular texts. Such topics are addressed as atomism in the Old Academy, Philo's concept of immateriality, Plutarch's and Julian's views on theology, and peculiar features of Iamblichus' exegeses of Plato and Aristotle, but also the broader questions of the social position of the philosopher in second century A.D. society, and the nature of ancient biography.

The Platonic Heritage
The Platonic Heritage

Author: John M. Dillon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781409446620

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In this third collection of articles by John Dillon, the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the Old Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism, to the Neoplatonists and beyond. Individual topics include atomism in the Old Academy, Philo's concept of immateriality, Plutarch's and Julian's views on theology, and peculiar features of Iamblichus' exegeses of Plato and Aristotle, but also the broader questions of the social position of the philosopher in second century A.D. society, and the nature of ancient biography.

John Stuart Mill’s Platonic Heritage
John Stuart Mill’s Platonic Heritage

Author: Antis Loizides

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2013-03-22

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0739173944

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This book explores various connections of John Stuart Mill’s thought to ancient Greek philosophy primarily in relation to his conception of happiness. It argues that a better understanding of Mill’s background in ancient Greek thought and his reading(s) of Plato’s dialogues leads to innovative interpretations of his moral and political thought.

Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage: Its Reception in Neoplatonic, Jewish, and Christian Texts
Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage: Its Reception in Neoplatonic, Jewish, and Christian Texts

Author: John Douglas Turner

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 158983450X

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Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage presents in two volumes ground-breaking results in the history of interpretation of Plato's Parmenides, the culmination of six years of international collaboration by the SBL Annual Meeting seminar, “Rethinking Plato's Parmenides and Its Platonic, Gnostic and Patristic Reception” (2001–2007).Volume 2 examines and establishes for the first time evidence for a significant knowledge of the Parmenides in Philo, Clement, and patristic sources. It offers an extensive and balanced analysis of the case for and against the various possible attributions of date and authorship of the Anonymous Commentary in relation to Gnosticism, Middle Platonism, and Neoplatonism and argues that on balance the case for a pre-Plotinian authorship is warranted. It also undertakes for the first time in this form an examination of the Parmenides in relation to Jewish and Christian thought, moving from Philo and Clement through Origen and the Cappadocians to Pseudo-Dionysius. The contributors to Volume 2 are Matthias Vorwerk, Kevin Corrigan, Luc Brisson, Volker Henning Drecoll, Tuomas Rasimus, John F. Finamore, John M. Dillon, Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Gerald Bechtle, David T. Runia, Mark Edwards, Jean Reynard, and Andrew Radde-Gallwitz.

Platonism and Its Christian Heritage
Platonism and Its Christian Heritage

Author: John M. Rist

Publisher: Variorum Publishing

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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This collection of essays by John M. Rist deals with Platonism in the Imperial Roman age and with its various and complicated relationships with the growing Christian recognition of the necessity to think.