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A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.
Author : Lloyd Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110848834X
A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.
Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 1996-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139825259
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine. He thought of himself as a disciple of Plato, but in his efforts to defend Platonism against Aristotelians, Stoics, and others, he actually produced a reinvigorated version of Platonism that later came to be known as 'Neoplatonism'. In this volume, sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' complex system. They place Plotinus in the history of ancient philosophy while showing that he was a founder of medieval philosophy.
Author : Tom Stern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107161363
Provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of Nietzsche's philosophy, his key works and themes, his major influences and his legacy.
Author : David Vincent Meconi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107025338
This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.
Author : David Sedley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521775038
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. A team of leading specialists surveys the developments of the period and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. There are also separate chapters on how philosophy in the ancient world interacted with religion, literature and science, and a final chapter traces the seminal influence of Greek and Roman philosophy down to the seventeenth century. Practical elements such as tables, illustrations, a glossary, and extensive advice on further reading make it an ideal book to accompany survey courses on the history of ancient philosophy. It will be an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the philosophical thought of this rich and formative period.
Author : John N. Deck
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 1967-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1442638184
Plotinus has been so highly regarded as a mystic that his importance as a philosopher has sometimes been thrown into eclipse. Yet neoplatonic philosophy lives in and through his works; indeed, his original development of Platonic and Aristotelian themes stands as a kind of summation of Greek philosophy as it first came to be known in the Christian West. In Nature, Contemplation, and the One, Professor Deck has undertaken a reappraisal of Plotinus' thought from the standpoint of a central doctrine in the Enneads, that of nature as contemplation. This new view enables him to show that the producing of the physical world by means of contemplation is an internally consistent doctrine with ramifications throughout the Plotinian view of being, causality, and the generation of a plural universe by the self-subsistent One. The result is a systematic account of Plotinus' major teachings, and a fresh view of their meaning and philosophic importance. Professor Deck has appended a new translation of the parts of the Enneads which are central to the doctrine of nature as contemplation, and his study proceeds by careful reference to the original texts. Students, philosophers, and historians will welcome this important and unusually clear-headed approach to a major figure in Western thought.
Author : Pierre Hadot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226311944
Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's lucid translation—complete with a useful chronology and analytical bibliography—at last makes this book available to the English-speaking world. Hadot carefully examines Plotinus's views on the self, existence, love, virtue, gentleness, and solitude. He shows that Plotinus, like other philosophers of his day, believed that Plato and Aristotle had already articulated the essential truths; for him, the purpose of practicing philosophy was not to profess new truths but to engage in spiritual exercises so as to live philosophically. Seen in this light, Plotinus's counsel against fixation on the body and all earthly matters stemmed not from disgust or fear, but rather from his awareness of the negative effect that bodily preoccupation and material concern could have on spiritual exercises.
Author : Tarmo Toom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108491863
Presents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.
Author : James Hankins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827480
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished international team of contributors, call these assumptions into question, emphasizing both the continuity with scholastic philosophy and the role of Renaissance philosophy in the emergence of modernity. They explore the ways in which the science, religion and politics of the period reflect and are reflected in its philosophical life, and they emphasize the dynamism and pluralism of a period which saw both new perspectives and enduring contributions to the history of philosophy. This will be an invaluable guide for students of philosophy, intellectual historians, and all who are interested in Renaissance thought.
Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1501716964
"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.