George Boys-Stones (Durham University Professor)

Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250

An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An accessible introduction to the most influential philosophical movement of the early centuries of our era. The book provides a comprehensive account of the philosophical views of 'Middle' Platonism, and source-texts in English translation represent the full range of thinkers involved and the subjects they tackled. It also includes sections of further reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 662
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1174g
• ISBN-13: 9780521838580
• ISBN-10: 0521838584
• Artikelnr.: 49209219

Autorenporträt

George Boys-Stones is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Durham University and has published widely on Middle Platonism among other topics. He is co-editor of The Platonic Art of Philosophy (Cambridge, 2013) and author of Post-Hellenistic Philosophy (2001), which laid the groundwork for this volume.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: studying middle platonism
1. Plato's authority and the history of philosophy
2. Making sense of the dialogues
Part I. Cosmology: 3. Causal principles for a non-materialist cosmology
4. The debate over matter and the problem of evil
5. Paradigm-forms
6. The creator god
7. Theories of creation
8. World soul and nature
9. Individual souls and their faculties
10. Living beings: gods, daimons, humans, animals, plants
11. Providence
12. Fate
Part II. Dialectic: 13. Epistemology
14. Logic
15. Aristotle's Categories: ontology and linguistics
16. The hierarchy of sciences
Part III. Ethics: 17. The goal of virtue and the ideal life
18. Ethical virtue and the management of the passions
19. Politics
20. The system of the Chaldaean Oracles
Glossary
References
Catalogue of platonists
Index of sources and references
Index to notes and further reading.