From Plato to Platonism / / Lloyd P. Gerson.

"Gerson's book is a highly valuable, well-written contribution to Platonism research. It persuasively makes a case for understanding Plato's philosophy as a coherent system that has an intricate and meaningful relation to later Platonistic philosophical positions. From this point, Pla...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2017
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1. Plato and His Readers
  • 1. Was Plato a Platonist?
  • 2. Socrates and Platonism
  • 3. Reading the Dialogues Platonically
  • 4. Aristotle on Plato and Platonism
  • Part 2. The Continuing Creation of Platonism
  • 5. The Old Academy
  • 6. The Academic Skeptics
  • 7. Platonism in the ‘Middle’
  • 8. Numenius of Apamea
  • Part 3. Plotinus: “Exegete of the Platonic Revelation”
  • 9. Platonism as a System
  • 10. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (1)
  • 11. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (2)
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum