James M. Ambury (Pennsylvania King's College)

Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I

Crafting the Contemplative

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together both works to reveal a common vision of philosophy as it was understood in the lecture halls of late antiquity, this monograph is the only book-length study exclusively devoted to the reception of the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades I in the commentaries of Proclus (412â 485 AD) and Olympiodorus (495â 60 AD).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 236mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781009100212
• ISBN-10: 1009100211
• Artikelnr.: 70146338

Autorenporträt

James M. Ambury is Associate Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous articles on the Platonic tradition, and the co-editor (with Andy German) of Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy (Cambridge 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Curriculum and Contemplative
1. The Self-Knowledge Necessity: Opening Remarks
2. Exalting Eros: Proem (103a1-106c2)
3. How Should I Live?: The Elenctic Section (106c3-119a7)
4. What Do I Want?: The Protreptic Section (119a8-124a8)
5. Who Am I?: The Maieutic Section (124a8-135e8).