Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition
Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition

Author: Mark Joyal

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1351897349

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This book, which honours the career of a distinguished scholar, contains essays dealing with important problems in Plato, the Platonic tradition, and the texts and transmission of Plato and later Platonic writers. It ranges from the discussion of issues in individual Platonic dialogues to the examination of Platonism in the Middle Ages. The essays are written by leading scholars in the field and reflect the current state of knowledge on the various problems under discussion. The collection as a whole testifies to the importance of the Platonic writings for the history of ideas, and to the vitality that the study of these writings continues to possess.

Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition
Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-02-14

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9004504699

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This book assembles an international team of scholars to move forward the study of Plato’s conception of time, to find fresh insights for interpreting his cosmology, and to reimagine the Platonic tradition.

The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages
The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages

Author: Stephen Gersh

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-02-06

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 3110908492

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This collection of essays delineates the history of the rather disparate intellectual tradition usually labeled as "Platonic" or "Neoplatonic". In chronological order, the book covers the most eminent philosophic schools of thought within that tradition. The most important terms of the Platonic tradition are studied together with a discussion of their semantic implications, the philosophical and theological claims associated with the terms, the sources that furnish the terms, and the intellectual traditions aligned with or opposed to them. The contributors thereby provide a vivid intellectual map of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Contributions are written in English or German.

Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition
Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition

Author: Mark Joyal

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1351897357

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This book, which honours the career of a distinguished scholar, contains essays dealing with important problems in Plato, the Platonic tradition, and the texts and transmission of Plato and later Platonic writers. It ranges from the discussion of issues in individual Platonic dialogues to the examination of Platonism in the Middle Ages. The essays are written by leading scholars in the field and reflect the current state of knowledge on the various problems under discussion. The collection as a whole testifies to the importance of the Platonic writings for the history of ideas, and to the vitality that the study of these writings continues to possess.

Who Speaks for Plato?
Who Speaks for Plato?

Author: Gerald Alan Press

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780847692194

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These essays examine a crucial premise of traditional readings of Plato's dialogues: that Plato's own philosophical dialogues can be read off the statements made in the dialogues by Socrates and other leading characters. The text argues that no character should be read as Plato's mouthpiece.

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.

Studies on Plato, Aristotle and Proclus
Studies on Plato, Aristotle and Proclus

Author: John Joseph Cleary

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9004233237

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John J. Cleary (1949 2009) was an internationally recognised authority in ancient Greek philosophy. This volume of penetrating studies of Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus, philosophy of mathematics, and ancient theories of education, display Cleary s range of expertise and originality of approach.

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism
Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Author: Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-07-27

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9004215050

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The belief in the immortality of the soul has been described as one of the “twin pillars of Platonism” and is famously defended by Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo. The ancient commentaries on the dialogue by Olympiodorus and Damascius offer a unique perspective on the reception of this belief in the Platonic tradition. Through a detailed discussion of topics such as suicide, the life of the philosopher and arguments for immortality, this study demonstrates the commentators’ serious engagement with problems in Plato’s text as well as the dialogue's importance to Neoplatonic ethics. The book will be of interest to students of Plato and the Platonic tradition, and to those working on ancient ethics and psychology.

Plato's Gods
Plato's Gods

Author: Gerd Van Riel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1317079922

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This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation of the status of Plato's gods and the relation between metaphysics and theology according to Plato. Starting from an examination of Plato's views of religion and the relation between religion and morality, Gerd Van Riel investigates Plato's innovative ways of speaking about the gods. This theology displays a number of diverging tendencies - viewing the gods as perfect moral actors, as cosmological principles or as celestial bodies whilst remaining true to traditional anthropomorphic representations. Plato's views are shown to be unified by the emphasis on the goodness of the gods in both their cosmological and their moral functions. Van Riel shows that recent interpretations of Plato's theology are thoroughly metaphysical, starting from aristotelian patterns. A new reading of the basic texts leads to the conclusion that in Plato the gods aren't metaphysical principles but souls who transmit the metaphysical order to sensible reality. The metaphysical principles play the role of a fated order to which the gods have to comply. This book will be invaluable to readers interested in philosophical theology and intellectual history.