From Plato to Platonism (eBook)

Lloyd P. Gerson (Autor)

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2013
360 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-6917-6 (ISBN)

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"e;Gersons book is a highly valuable, well-written contribution to Platonism research. It persuasively makes a case for understanding Platos philosophy as a coherent system that has an intricate and meaningful relation to later Platonistic philosophical positions. From this point, Plato appears as a Platonist indeed."e;- Claas Lattman - CLASSICAL JOURNALWas Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato's own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries. In From Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. Gerson argues that the ancients are correct in their assessment. He arrives at this conclusion in an especially ingenious manner, challenging fundamental assumptions about how Plato's teachings have come to be understood. Through deft readings of the philosophical principles found in Platos dialogues and in the Platonic tradition beginning with Aristotle, he shows that Platonism, broadly conceived, is the polar opposite of naturalism and that the history of philosophy from Plato until the seventeenth century was the history of various efforts to find the most consistent and complete version of "e;anti-naturalism."e;Gerson contends that the philosophical position of PlatoPlato's own Platonism, so to speakwas produced out of a matrix he calls "e;Ur-Platonism."e; According to Gerson, Ur-Platonism is the conjunction of five "e;antis"e; that in total arrive at anti-naturalism: anti-nominalism, anti-mechanism, anti-materialism, anti-relativism, and anti-skepticism. Plato's Platonism is an attempt to construct the most consistent and defensible positive system uniting the five "e;antis."e; It is also the system that all later Platonists throughout Antiquity attributed to Plato when countering attacks from critics including Peripatetics, Stoics, and Sceptics.In conclusion, Gerson shows that Late Antique philosophers such as Proclus were right in regarding Plotinus as "e;the great exegete of the Platonic revelation."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.11.2013
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Gewicht: 28 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Ancient Greek History • ancient Greek philosophers • ancient greek studies • Ancient Philosophy • aristotle and plato • books for classics students • books to understand plato • Classical Philosophy • greek philosophers • Greek Philosophy • History of Philosophy • History of Religions • intro of philosophy • Middle Platonism • philosophy of Socrates • Plato • platonic tradition • Platonism • Platonist • plato's dialouges • Plato's philosophy • Plotinus • reading plato • socrates and plato • socrates and platonism • studying classical philosophy • survey of philopsophy • understanding ancient philosophy • understanding platoism • understanding socrates • ur-platonism • what did plato believe • who was plato
• ISBN-10: 0-8014-6917-1 / 0801469171
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-6917-6 / 9780801469176