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
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