Platonismus und hellenistische Philosophie

Krämer, Hans-Joachim, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1971

Inhaltsverzeichnis

EINLEITUNG

I. ÄLTERE UND NEUERE AKADEMIE

II. THEOLOGIE UND PRINZIPIENLEHRE VOM TIMAIOS ZUM FRÜHHELLENISMUS

III. ZUM HELLENISTISCHEN ARETE- UND EUDÄMONIEBEGRIFF

IV. EPIKURS LEHRE VOM MINIMUM

IV. EPIKURS LEHRE VOM MINIMUM. Exkurs: Die ‚Physik’ des Xenokrates und die fünf Argumente des Traktats De lineis insecabilibus

REGISTER. I. LITERATURVERZEICHNIS (ABKÜRZUNGEN)

REGISTER. II. VERZEICHNIS DER AUTOREN UND STELLEN (AUSWAHL)

REGISTER. III. VERZEICHNIS VON WÖRTERN UND BEGRIFFEN

REGISTER. IV. NAMENSVERZEICHNIS

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110843170/html

Learning Greek with Plato

A Beginner’s Course in Classical Greek

Frank Beetham, Liverpool: Liverpool Phoenix Press, 2007

 Description

Adult learners of ancient Greek are often attracted to it by the prospect of being able to read in the original a particular author or genre. Greek philosophical writing and Plato in particular is often the target. This book’s material has been tried and tested by the author over the years with adult classes, and can be used as a course textbook, or as a handbook for self-teaching. Each of 25 sections is clearly laid out – with tabulation of Greek word-forms and grammar. Each includes ample exercises and practice in reading Greek sentences. Readings in later sections consist of passages of continuous Greek from Plato’s Meno, a typical Platonic dramatic dialogue.

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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction: Background to Plato’s Meno

Section 1

The Alphabet, Punctuation and Accents

Section 2

The Verb « I am »

Asking Questions

Nouns and Declensions

Adjectives

Plurals

Section 3

Subjects and Verbs – Verb Endings

Personal Pronouns

Neuter Plural Subjects

Section 4

The Object

Accusative of Respect or Manner

Note on Greek Dialects

Section 5

Verbs – Middle and Passive Endings « This »,

Section 6

The Present Infinitive

Adverbs

The Genitive Case

Section 7

Conjunctions

The Dative Case

« Who? » and « What? »

« Someone » and « Something »

The Vocative Case

Third and Mixed Declension Adjectivess

Section 8

Prepositions

Verbs – Overview of Tenses

The Imperfect Tense

Augments

Translating Plato’s Meno 70a1-70c3

Section 9

The Perfect Tense

The Perfect Tense Middle and Passive

Translating Plato’s Meno 70c3-71c4

Section 10

Demonstrative Pronouns

Present Participles

The Perfect Active Participle

Middle and Passive Participles

Translating Plato’s Meno 71c5-72a5

Section 11

« Every »/ « All »

The Aorist Tense

The Weak Aorist Indicative Active

The Weak Aorist Indicative Middle

Kinds of Condition

Translating Plato’s Meno 72a6-72d3

Section 12

Multiple Questions

The Future Active

The Future Middle

The Subjunctive Mood

Infinitive as Subject and Object

Future and General Conditions

Translating Plato’s Meno 72d4-73c5

Section 13

Adjectives with Masculine for Feminine

The Optative Mood

Future Unlikely Conditions

Translating Plato’s Meno 73c6-74a6

Section 14

The Strong Aorist Active Tense

The Strong Aorist Middle Tense

Purpose Clauses

Translating Plato’s Meno 74a7-74e10

Section 15

Imperatives

Prohibitions

Strong and Doubtful Denials

Translating Plato’s Meno 74e11-75d7

Section 16

Contraction (Verbs)

Translating Plato’s Meno 75d7-76c3

Section 17

Relative Pronouns: « Who », « What », « Which », « That »

Translating Plato’s Meno 76c4-77a2

Section 18

The Aorist Passive Tense

Translating Plato’s Meno 77a2-77e4

Section 19

The Genitive Absolute

The Future Passive Tense

Translating Plato’s Meno 77e5-78c3

Section 20

Temporal Clauses

The Pluperfect Tense

Translating Plato’s Meno 78c4-79a2

Section 21

Contracted Adjective Endings (Third Declension)

Reported Speech

Accusative and Infinitive used for Reported Statements

Participle Construction with « Know » or « See »

Relative Clauses, Direct and Indirect Questions

Translating Plato’s Meno 79a3-79c10

Section 22

(« Because »)

(« Although »)

Numerals

Multiple Negatives

Translating Plato’s Meno 79d1-79e6

Section 23

Irregular Adjectives

Comparatives and Superlatives

Translating Plato’s Meno 79e7-80b7

Section 24

Translating Plato’s Meno 80b8-81a10

Section 25

Impersonal Verbs

Accusative Absolute

Verbal Adjectives

Reflexive Pronouns

Translating Plato’s Meno 81a10-81e6

Appendices

Cases and Prepositions

Summary of Voice, Mood, Tense and Aspect in the Greek Verb

Word Order

Duals

Numerals

Declension of Nouns, Adjectives and Pronouns

Reference List of Verb Endings and Irregular Verbs

Answers

Word List

Principal Tenses of Some of the More Difficult Verbs

Index

Link

https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/series/series-12370/

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Mystical Monotheism

A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology

John Peter Kenney, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010

Description

In this engaging and provocative study, John Peter Kenney examines the emergence of monotheism within Greco-Roman philosophical theology by tracing the changing character of ancient realism from Plato through Plotinus. Besides acknowledging the philosophical and theological significance of such ancient thinkers as Plutarch, Numenius, Alcinous, and Atticus, he demonstrates the central importance of Plotinus in clarifying the relation of the intelligible world to divinity. Kenney focuses especially on Plotinus’s novel concept of deity, arguing that it constitutes a type of mystical monotheism based upon an ultimate and inclusive divine One beyond description or discursive knowledge. Presenting difficult material with grace and clarity, Kenney takes a wide-ranging view of the development of ancient Platonic theology from a philosophical perspective and synthesizes familiar elements in a new way. His is a revisionist thesis with significant implications for the study of Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian thought in this period and for the history of Western religious thought in general.

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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

I The Foundations of Hellenic Monotheism

1 Degrees of Reality

2 Divine Ideas

3 The Emergence of Hellenic Monotheism

4 The Demiurgic Theology of Plutarch

5 Early Platonic Theism

II The Demotion of the Demiurge

1 Numenius and the Degrees of Divinity

2 The Didaskalikos of Alcinous

3 The Exemplarism of the Athenian School

4 Middle Platonic Theology

III The Mystical Monotheism of Plotinus

1 Divine Simplicity

2 Intellect and Ideas

3 Hid Divinity

Conclusion: Mystical Monotheism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Link

https://www.persee.fr/doc/assr_0335-5985_1996_num_96_1_1049_t1_0101_0000_2

Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy

An Introduction

Stephen Clark, London: Bloomsbury, 2013

Description

Although the Greeks were responsible for the first systematic philosophy of which we have any record, they were not alone in the Mediterranean world and were happy to draw inspiration from other traditions; traditions that are now largely neglected by philosophers and scholars. This book tells the story of ‘Greek Philosophy’, paying due attention to its historical context and the contributions made by Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians and even barbarians from northern Europe. Stephen Clark provides a narrative history of the philosophical traditions that took shape over several centuries in the Mediterranean world and offers a comprehensive survey of this crucial period in the history of philosophy. The book includes a thorough historical and philosophical overview of all the key thinkers, events and ideas that characterized the period and explores in detail central themes such as the contest of gods and giants, the contrast between the reality and appearance, and the idea of the philosopher. Ideal for undergraduate students, this concise and accessible book provides a comprehensive guide to a fascinating period in the history of philosophy.

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Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Map

1. Beginnings

2. Influence from Outside

3. Inspired Thinkers

4. Travellers and Stay-at-Homes

5. Divine Plato

6. The Aristotelian Synthesis

7. Living the Philosophical Life

8. Ordinary and Supernatural Lives

9. Late Antiquity

10. An End and a Beginning

Endnotes

Recommended Reading

Works Cited

Index

Link

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ancient-mediterranean-philosophy-9781441123596/

The Origins of the Platonic System

Platonisms of the Early Empire and their Philosophical Contexts

Bonazzi M., Opsomer J. (eds), Leuven: Peeters, 2009

Description

From the 1st century BC onwards followers of Plato began to systematize Plato’s thought. These attempts went in various directions and were subjected to all kinds of philosophical influences, especially Aristotelian, Stoic, and Pythagorean. The result was a broad variety of Platonisms without orthodoxy. That would only change with Plotinus. This volume, being the fruit of the collaboration among leading scholars in the field, addresses a number of aspects of this period of system building with substantial contributions on Antiochus and Alcinous and their relation to Stoicism; on Pythagoreanising tendencies in Platonism; on Eudorus and the tradition of commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories; on the creationism of the Jewish Platonist Philo of Alexandria; on Ammonius, the Egyptian teacher of Plutarch; on Plutarch’s discussion of Socrates’ guardian spirit. The contributions are in English, French, Italian and German.

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Table of contents

INTRODUCTION

Mauro Bonazzi, Jan Opsomer

Thomas BÉNATOUÏL, Qewría et vie contemplative du stoïcisme au platonisme: Chrysippe, Panétius, Antiochus et Alcinoos

Mauro BONAZZI, Antiochus’ Ethics and the Subordination of Stoicism

Gregor STAAB, Das Kennzeichen des neuen Pythagoreismus innerhalb der kaiserzeitlichen Platoninterpretation: „Pythagoreischer“ Dualismus und Einprinzipienlehre im Einklang

Riccardo CHIARADONNA, Autour d’Eudore: Les débuts de l’exégèse des Catégories dans le Moyen Platonisme

Franco TRABATTONI, Philo, De opificio mundi, 7-12

Jan OPSOMER, M. Annius Ammonius, a Philosophical Profile

Pierluigi DONINI, Il silenzio di Epaminonda, i demoni e il mito: il platonismo di Plutarco nel De genio Socratis

INDEX OF ANCIENT NAMES

INDEX OF MODERN NAMES

INDEX LOCORUM

Link

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010.08.31/

The Ascent to the Good

The Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues from Symposium to Republic

Franciso L. Lisi (ed), Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007

Description

Praised and condemned by totalitarians and democrats, liberals, fascists and communists, progressives and conservatives, Plato’s Republic is one of the most influential writings in the history of political ideas. In its central books the philosopher puts in the mouth of Socrates the principles of its challenging political construction. The defense of the philosophical government in Plato’s Republic reveals the necessity of distinguishing true philosophers from false ones. This issue leads to the central question of the Good, the principle that constitutes the foundation of philosophical knowledge and of political activity. Once this principle has been introduced, the subsequent question turns on the education of the philosophers, which occupies Book VII. The present volume contains contributions to the main issues developed in Books V-VII of the Republic, on which the attention of scholarship in the past 100 years has focused, practical philosophy, metaphysics, dialectics, and the question of the Good.

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Table of contents

Introduction

  1. The foundations of politics in the central books of the Republic – Francisco L. Lisi

Part I Philosophical Government and Education

  1. Politici e filosofi sulla nave della città – Silvia Gastaldi
  2. Elementi di una fenomenologia della massa nella Repubblica di Platone – Marco Russo
  3. Physis in Republic V 471c – VII 541b – Gottfried Heinemann
  4. Cultivating Intellectual Virtue in Plato’s Philosopher-Rulers – John Cleary
  5. L’innovazione platonica nell’allegoria della caverna – Silvia Campese

Part II Being and Dialectics

  1. ΕΙΝΑΙ, ΟΥΣΙΑ e ΟΝ nei libri centrali della Repubblica – Francesco Fronterotta
  2. Glaucone e i misteri della dialettica – Mario Vegetti

Part III The Good

  1. L’analogia solare del VI libro della Repubblica – Francesca Calabi
  2. La potenza del “Buono” – Franco Ferrari
  3. The Form of the Good – Francisco L. Lisi
  4. El sembrador divino (phutourgós) – Luc Brisson
  5. L’interpretazione del Bene nella Dissertazione XI del Commento alla Repubblica di Proclo – Michelle Abbatte

Bibliography

Index locorum

Link

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498574617/Ascent-to-the-Good-The-Reading-Order-of-Plato%E2%80%99s-Dialogues-from-Symposium-to-Republic

Platonism and Forms of Intelligence

Dillon, John & Zovko, Marie-Elise (eds), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012

Description

The volume contains a collection of papers presented at the International Symposium, which took place in Hvar, Croatia, in 2006. In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in the study of Plato, Platonism and Neoplatonism. Taking the position that it is of vital importance to establish an ongoing dialogue among scientists, artists, academics, theologians and philosophers concerning pressing issues of common interest to humankind, this collection of papers endeavours to bridge the gap between contemporary research in Platonist philosophy and other fields where insights gained from the study of Plato and Platonist philosophy can be of consequence and benefit.

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Table of contents

  1. Platonism and the Physical and Sensible Conditions of Intelligence.

The Origin and Nature of Intelligence – Doner, Jonathan

Embodying Intelligence: Animals and Us in Plato’s Timaeus – Carpenter, Amber

The Question of Platonic Division and Modern Epistemology – Kaldis, Byron

Intelligenza e Intelligibilità nel Timeo di Platone – Ferrari, Franco

  1. Platonism and the Ethical Nature of Intelligence.

Irony and the Care of the Soul in Plato’s Early Dialogues – Zovko, Jure

Stepping into the Same Rivers: Consciousness, Personal Identity and the Metaphysical Foundations for Global Ethics – / Kolak, Daniel

  1. Platonism on the Intelligent Conditions of Intelligence and Intelligibility.

Thinking about Thought. An Inquiry into the Life of Platonism – de Haas, F. A. J.

Zum Begriff des ‚Geistes‘ in der Frühen Neuzeit. Überlegungen am Beispiel Francesco Patrizi da Chersos – Leinkauf, Thomas

Reminiscence in Plato – Brisson, Luc

Platonismo e scienze della mente: cosa è l’intuizione? – Fronterotta, Francesco

  1. Platonism on Intellect, Infinity, and the Intelligibility of Concepts of God.

The Notion of Infinity in Plotinus and Cantor – Mentzeniotis, Dionysis / Stamatellos, Giannis

Nous: Unity in Difference – Beierwaltes, Werner

The One of the Soul and the ‘Flower of the Intellect’. Models of Hyper-intellection in Later Neoplatonism – Dillon, John

The Influence of Platonism on St. Thomas Aquina’s Concept of Mind – Quinn, Patrick

Liberté divine chez Plotin et Jamblique (Traité 39 [VI 8] 7, 11-15 et De mysteriis III, 17-20) – Narbonne, Jean-Marc

  1. Platonism and Forms of Intelligence in Art and Education.

Intelligible Beauty and Artistic Creation: The Renaissance Platonism of Judah Abravanel – Hughes, Aaron

La liberté est dans la mémoire: Zur Notwendigkeit des auswendigen Spiels am Beispiel der Werke von Alexander Skrjabin – Stoupel, Vladimir

The Way Up and the Way Back is the Same: The Ascent of Cognition in Plato’s Analogies of the Sun, the Line and the Cave and the Path Intelligence Takes – Zovko, Marie-Élise

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1524/9783050061115/html

Plato’s Parmenides and Its Heritage

Volume 1: History and interpretation from the Old Academy to Later Platonism and Gnosticism

John D. Turner et Kevin Corrigan, Leyde: Brill, 2011

Description

Ce volume revient sur l’assertion de Proclus qui est généralement acceptée par la recherche et selon laquelle il n’y a pas d’interprétation métaphysique du Parménide avant Plotin. En effet, des traces d’une telle interprétation assez tôt dans le temps, comme le démontrent les différentes contributions. L’ouvrage est divisé en deux parties, la première « Plato, from the Old Academy to Middle Platonism » et la seconde « Middle Platonic and Gnostic Texts ». C’est cette seconde partie qui nous intéresse ici, particulièrement cinq articles qui évoquent les liens entre écrits gnostiques et le Parménide. Trois d’entre eux discutent notamment les résultats des recherches de Michel Tardieu et Pierre Hadot sur le Zostrien et Marius Victorinus, témoignant de leur importance. Dans « The Platonizing Sethian Treatises, Marius Victorinus’s Philosophical Sources, And Pre-Plotinian Parmenides Commentaries » (p. 131-172), John D. Turner comment le Parménide est devenu un texte de référence pour des auteurs gnostiques au tournant du iiie siècle, comme cela a été le cas chez les philosophes médio-platoniciens. Ceci amène l’auteur à revenir sur le Commentaire anonyme sur le Parménide, pour lequel il adopte une datation préplotinienne, et sur les parallèles entre le Zostrien et Marius Victorinus mis en lumière par Michel Tardieu et Pierre Hadot. Il renforce l’hypothèse d’une source commune, qui pourrait être un commentaire du Parménide, différent toutefois, voire antérieur au Commentaire anonyme du manuscrit de Turin. En annexe, l’auteur donne citations et tableaux comparatifs utiles à la compréhension de son argumentation. Johanna Brankaer s’interroge sur l’existence d’une spéculation hénologique chez les gnostiques (p. 173-194, « Is There a Gnostic ‘Henological’ Speculation ? »), pour répondre par la positive. Elle ne présente pas un panorama de ce que l’on trouve dans l’ensemble des écrits gnostiques, mais uniquement dans quatre écrits qui relèvent de ce que des chercheurs appellent « séthiens »[1] : Les Trois Stèles de Seth, Zostrien, Marsanès et Allogène. Elle relève les passages où il est question de l’Un et s’intéresse plus particulièrement au lexique utilisé pour parler des réalités supérieures et pour exprimer l’unité et/ou l’unicité. Elle aurait pu citer Jean Daniel-Dubois qui aussi des pages au lexique de l’unité/l’unicité, même s’il aborda le Traité Tripartite et non pas un écrit « séthien »[2]. Concernant les rapports entre le Zostrien et Marius Victorinus, contrairement à la plupart des chercheurs, elle insiste sur les différences. Volker Henning Drecoll, dans « The Greek Text behind the Parallel Sections in Zostrianos and Marius Victorinus » (p. 195-212) revient sur les travaux de Michel Tardieu et de Pierre Hadot. Il considère que les parallèles entre le Zostrien et Marius Victorinus sont finalement modestes et concernent des expressions qui sont communes dans les textes philosophiques de l’époque. Il discute ensuite l’hypothèse d’une source commune, d’une part celle avancée par Michel Tardieu et d’autre part celle proposée par Abramowski. Il en vient à suggérer une autre hypothèse : Marius Victorinus aurait connu directement ou indirectement (par l’intermédiaire d’un texte néoplatonicien) la version grecque du Zostrien, une version qui par ailleurs aurait pu être modifiée au moment de sa traduction en copte. Pour le moment, il ne voit pas d’arguments contre cette (double) hypothèse. Les deux articles suivants font intervenir dans la discussion les Oracles chaldaïques. John D. Turner, dans « The Chaldean Oracles and the Metaphysics of the Sethian Platonizing Treatises” (p. 213-232) étudie les structures métaphysiques et les fonctions des différentes entités, successivement dans les Oracles, dans les écrits « séthiens » platonisant et dans le Commentaire anonyme, pour faire ressortir les points de rencontre entre ces trois ensembles scripturaires. Quant à Luc Brisson, dans « A Criticism of the Chaldaean Oracles and of the Gnostics in Columns IX and X of the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides » (p. 233-241), revient sur la critique du Commentaire de deux interprétations concernant la possibilité de connaître l’Un (fragment 4, colonnes IX et X). Luc Brisson relève les traits qui caractérisent la seconde interprétation critiquée, celle qui se fonde sur l’autorité des Oracles chaldaïques et il pointe sur la mention de l’audace. Selon lui, cette mention pourrait suggérer que ces interprètes seraient des gnostiques. La lecture de ces articles fut stimulante, et ces articles ne manqueront pas d’intéresser tous ceux qui s’intéressent aux rapports entre écrits et idées philosophiques et gnostiques. On peut souligner aussi que la discussion s’élargit à trois « partenaires » : les écrits platoniciens, les écrits gnostiques et les Oracles chaldaïques.

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Table de matières

  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • SECTION 1: PLATO, FROM THE OLD ACADEMY TO MIDDLE PLATONISM
    • The Place of the Parmenidesin Plato’s Thought and in the Subsequent Tradition – Kevin Corrigan
    • Speusippus’s Neutral Conception of the One and Plato’s ParmenidesGerald Bechtle
    • The Fragment of Speusippus in Column I of the Anonymous Commentary on the ParmenidesLuc Brisson
    • Speusippus and the Ontological Interpretation of the ParmenidesJohn Dillon
    • The Indefinite Dyad in Sextus Empiricus’s Report (Adversus Mathethematicos 10.248-283) and Plato’s ParmenidesThomas Szlezák
    • Plato and Parmenides in Agreement: Ammonius’s Praise of God as One – Being in Plutarch’s The E at DelphiZlatko Pleše
    • Moderatus, E. R. Dodds, and the Development of Neoplatonist Emanation – J. Noel Hubler
  • SECTION 2: MIDDLE PLATONIC AND GNOSTIC TEXTS
    • The Platonizing Sethian Treatises, Marius Victorinus’s Philosophical Sources, and Pre-Plotinian Parmenides Commentaries – John D. Turner
    • Is There a Gnostic « Henological » Speculation? – Johanna Brankaer
    • The Greek Text behind the Parallel Sections in Zostrianosand Marius Victorinus – Volker Henning Drecoll
    • The Chaldaean Oracles and the Metaphysics of the Sethian Platonizing Treatises – John D. Turner
    • A Criticism of the Chaldaean Oracles and of the Gnostics in Columns IX and X of the Anonymous Commentary on the ParmenidesLuc Brisson
    • The Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides and Aristotle’s Categories: Some Preliminary Remarks – Gerald Bechtle
    • Negative Theology and Radical Conceptual Purification in the Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s ParmenidesAlain Lernould
    • A Criticism of Numenius in the Last Columns (XI-XIV) of the Anonymous Commentary on the ParmenidesLuc Brisson
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Subject – Name Index
  • Index Locorum

[1] Restreindre ainsi le propos de son article à quatre écrits « séthiens » sous un intitulé général « la spéculation gnostique » semble faire des « séthiens » les seuls gnostiques, une position qui rejoindrait celle de David Brakke, The Gnostics, . Je ne suis pas sûre toutefois que ce soit la position de l’auteure, mais le titre pourrait prêter à confusion. De plus, ce titre général par rapport aux écrits choisis (sans que le choix ne soit justifié, comme s’il allait de soi vu la thématique de l’ouvrage) pourrait suggérer que pour trouver une spéculation hénologique, il faut se tourner vers les écrits « séthiens ». Je n’en suis pas sûre ; lire par exemple le Traité Tripartite.

[2] Jean-Daniel Dubois, « L’utilisation du grec dans le texte valentinien copte du Traité tripartite », dans Jean-Marc Narbonne et Paul-Hubert Poirier, Gnose et philosophie. Études en hommage à Pierre Hadot, Québec – Paris, 2009, p. 37-38.

Lien

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The Platonic Heritage

Further Studies in the History of Platonism and Early Christianity

John Dillon, Ashgate Variorum, London: Routledge, 2012

Description

Cet ouvrage constitue un recueil des articles publiés entre 1996 et 2006. Cinq articles ont retenu notre attention plus particulièrement étant donné leur lien plus direct avec la thématique de notre cahier :  Plotinus, Speusippus and the Platonic Parmenides; The social role of the philosopher in Athens in the 2nd century CE: some remarks; Pedantry and pedestrianism? Some reflections on the middle Platonic commentary tradition; Monotheism in the Gnostic tradition; An unknown Platonist on God. Voici la présentation générale de l’ouvrage, faite par l’éditeur : 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.

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Table of contents

The riddle of the Timaeus: is Plato sowing clues?;

Plotinus, Speusippus and the Platonic Parmenides;

The Timaeus in the old Academy;

Philip of Opus and the theology of Plato’s Laws;

Atomism in the old Academy;

Theophrastus’ critique of the old Academy in the Metaphysics;

The pleasures and perils of soul-gardening;

Asômatos: nuances of incorporeality in Philo;

Thrasyllus and the Logos;

Plutarch’s debt to Xenocrates;

Plutarch and the inseparable intellect;

Plutarch and God: theodicy and cosmogony in the thought of Plutarch;

Plutarch’s use of unidentified quotations;

The social role of the philosopher in Athens in the 2nd century CE: some remarks; Pedantry and pedestrianism? Some reflections on the middle Platonic commentary tradition;

Monotheism in the Gnostic tradition;

An unknown Platonist on God;

Holy and not so holy: on the interpretation of late antique biography;

Plotinus on whether the stars are causes;

Iamblichus’ Noera Theoria of Aristotle’s Categories;

Iamblichus’ identifications of the subject-matters of the hypotheses;

Iamblichus on the personal daemon;

The theology of Julian’s Hymn to King Helios;

A case-study in commentary: the neoplatonic exegesis of the Prooimia od Plato’s dialogues;

Damascius on procession and return;

‘The eye of the soul’: the doctrine of the higher consciousness in the neoplatonic and sufic traditions;

Indexes

Link

https://www.routledge.com/The-Platonic-Heritage-Further-Studies-in-the-History-of-Platonism-and-Early/Dillon/p/book/9781138110335