Authority and Authoritative Texts

in the Platonist Tradition

Michael Erler, Jan Erik Hebler & Federico M. Petrucci, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021

Description

All disciplines can count on a noble founder, and the representation of this founder as an authority is key in order to construe a discipline’s identity. This book sheds light on how Plato and other authorities were represented in one of the most long-lasting traditions of all time. It leads the reader through exegesis and polemics, recovery of the past and construction of a philosophical identity. From Xenocrates to Proclus, from the sceptical shift to the re-establishment of dogmatism, from the Mosaic of the Philosophers to the Neoplatonist Commentaries, the construction of authority emerges as a way of access to the core of the Platonist tradition.

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Table of contents

Introduction

By Michael Erler, Jan Erik Heßler, Federico M. Petrucci

Chapter 1 – Xenocrates’ Invention of Platonism

By David Sedley

Chapter 2 – An Iconography of Xenocrates’ Platonism

By David Sedley

Chapter 3 – Arcesilaus’ Appeal to Heraclitus as a Philosophical Authority for His Sceptical Stance

By Anna Maria Ioppolo

Chapter 4 – Authority beyond Doctrines in the First Century bc

Antiochus Model For Plato S Authority

By Federico M. Petrucci

Chapter 5 – Authority and Doctrine in the Pseudo-Pythagorean Writings

By Bruno Centrone

Chapter 6 – Constructing Authority

A Re Examination Of Some Controversial Issues In The Theology Of Numenius

By Alexandra Michalewski

Chapter 7 – Plutarch’s E at Delphi

The Hypothesis of Platonic Authority

By George Boys-Stones

Chapter 8 – Aristotle’s Physics as an Authoritative Work in Early Neoplatonism

Plotinus And Porphyry

By Riccardo Chiaradonna

Chapter 9 – Conflicting Authorities? Hermias and Simplicius on the Self-Moving Soul

By Saskia Aerts

Chapter 10 – Kathēgemōn: The Importance of the Personal Teacher in Proclus and Later Neoplatonism

By Christian Tornau

Chapter 11 – ‘In Plato we can see the bad characters being changed by the good and instructed and purified.’

Attitudes To Platonic Dialogue In Later Neoplatonism

By Anne Sheppard

Index Locorum

General Index

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/authority-and-authoritative-texts-in-the-platonist-tradition/951DF3CB9BE1C3EF472B9A00AA29C24F

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