The Neoplatonic Socrates - 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 The Neoplatonic Socrates write by Danielle A. Layne. This book was released on 2014-08-21. The Neoplatonic Socrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that would surprise many of his contemporaries, who excoriated the philosopher for corrupting youth. The problem of who Socrates "really" was—the true history of his activities and beliefs—has long been thought insoluble, and most recent Socratic studies have instead focused on reconstructing his legacy and tracing his ideas through other philosophical traditions. But this scholarship has neglected to examine closely a period of philosophy that has much to reveal about what Socrates stood for and how he taught: the Neoplatonic tradition of the first six centuries C.E., which at times decried or denied his importance yet relied on his methods. In The Neoplatonic Socrates, leading scholars in classics and philosophy address this gap by examining Neoplatonic attitudes toward the Socratic method, Socratic love, Socrates's divine mission and moral example, and the much-debated issue of moral rectitude. Collectively, they demonstrate the importance of Socrates for the majority of Neoplatonists, a point that has often been questioned owing to the comparative neglect of surviving commentaries on the Alcibiades, Gorgias, Phaedo, and Phaedrus, in favor of dialogues dealing explicitly with metaphysical issues. Supplemented with a contextualizing introduction and a substantial appendix detailing where evidence for Socrates can be found in the extant literature, The Neoplatonic Socrates makes a clear case for the significant place Socrates held in the education and philosophy of late antiquity. Contributors: Crystal Addey, James M. Ambury, John F. Finamore, Michael Griffin, Marilynn Lawrence, Danielle A. Layne, Christina-Panagiota Manolea, François Renaud, Geert Roskam, Harold Tarrant.
The Neoplatonic Socrates
The Neoplatonic Socrates - 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 The Neoplatonic Socrates write by Harold Tarrant. This book was released on 2014. The Neoplatonic Socrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Theophany
Theophany - 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 Theophany write by Eric D. Perl. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Theophany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The work of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite stands at a cusp in the history of thought: it is at once Hellenic and Christian, classical and medieval, philosophical and theological. Unlike the predominantly theological or text-historical studies which constitute much of the scholarly literature on Dionysius, Theophany is completely philosophical in nature, placing Dionysius within the tradition of ancient Greek philosophy and emphasizing, in a positive light, his continuity with the non-Christian Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus. Eric D. Perl offers clear expositions of the reasoning that underlies Neoplatonic philosophy and explains the argumentation that leads to and supports Neoplatonic doctrines. He includes extensive accounts of fundamental ideas in Plotinus and Proclus, as well as Dionysius himself, and provides an excellent philosophical defense of Neoplatonism in general.
Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature
Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature - 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 Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature write by James Wilberding. This book was released on 2012-04-05. Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume dispels the idea that Platonism was an otherworldly enterprise which neglected the study of the natural world. Leading scholars examine how the Platonists of late antiquity sought to understand and explain natural phenomena: their essays offer a new understanding of the metaphysics of Platonism, and its place in the history of science.
Neoplatonic Philosophy
Neoplatonic Philosophy - 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 Neoplatonic Philosophy write by John M. Dillon. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Neoplatonic Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most comprehensive collection of Neoplatonic writings available in English, this volume provides translations of the central texts of four major figures of the Neoplatonic tradition: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus. The general Introduction gives an overview of the period and takes a brief but revealing look at the history of ancient philosophy from the viewpoint of the Neoplatonists. Historical background--essential for understanding these powerful, difficult, and sometimes obscure thinkers--is provided in extensive footnotes, which also include cross-references to other works relevant to particular passages.
