Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism write by Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz. This book was released on 2011-07-27. Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study focuses on the ancient commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo by Olympiodorus and Damascius and aims to present the relevance of their challenging and valuable readings of the dialogue to Neoplatonic ethics.
Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism
Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism write by Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz. This book was released on 2011-07-27. Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study focuses on the ancient commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo by Olympiodorus and Damascius and aims to present the relevance of their challenging and valuable readings of the dialogue to Neoplatonic ethics.
Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion
Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion write by Marsilio Ficino. This book was released on 2008. Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino's extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.
PLOTINUS Ennead IV.7
PLOTINUS Ennead IV.7 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook PLOTINUS Ennead IV.7 write by Barrie Fleet. This book was released on 2016-03-30. PLOTINUS Ennead IV.7 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ennead IV.7 is a very early treatise (second according to Porphyry's chronological table), and unlike the many treatises devoted to attempts at untangling various issues Plotinus found problematic in Plato's thinking, this one presents the teachings of the other main schools current in Plotinus' day: the Stoics, Epicureans, Pythagoreans, and Peripatetics, all of whom presented soul as something material or as contingent upon material soul, and so as being neither truly immortal nor imperishable. It includes observations on many mainly Stoic doctrines on perception, memory, sensation, thought, virtue, powers of material bodies, mixture and reproduction (Chapters 1-83); on Pythagorean attunement (84); and on Peripatetic entelechy (85). In Chapters 9-10 Plotinus presents, in broad terms, Plato's doctrines on soul's immortality-mainly that of the individual soul, but a fortiori that of the soul of the cosmos. These chapters offer some of Plotinus' most powerful prose. He is not concerned to prove the soul's immortality-that was an uncontroversial tenet of Platonism, to be taken for granted. In this treatise Plotinus is laying down the indisputable foundations for his later writings.
Aristotle and Other Platonists
Aristotle and Other Platonists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aristotle and Other Platonists write by Lloyd P. Gerson. This book was released on 2017-12-01. Aristotle and Other Platonists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposition to Plato's. But it was not always thus."—from the Introduction In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the "harmony" of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity. He aims to show that the twentieth-century view that Aristotle started out as a Platonist and ended up as an anti-Platonist is seriously flawed. Gerson examines the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle based on their principle of harmony. In considering ancient studies of Aristotle's Categories, Physics, De Anima, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics, the author shows how the principle of harmony allows us to understand numerous texts that otherwise appear intractable. Gerson also explains how these "esoteric" treatises can be seen not to conflict with the early "exoteric" and admittedly Platonic dialogues of Aristotle. Aristotle and Other Platonists concludes with an assessment of some of the philosophical results of acknowledging harmony.
