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Author : Kevin Corrigan,John Douglas Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004158412
By questioning the modern categories of Plato and Platonism, this book offers new ways of reading the Platonic dialogues and the many traditions that resonate in them from Antiquity to Post-Modernity.
Author : Drew A. Hyland
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791484555
Explores interpretations of Plato by Heidegger, Derrida, Irigaray, Cavarero, and Gadamer.
Author : Scott Berman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350080225
What are the objects of science? Are they just the things in our scientific experiments that are located in space and time? Or does science also require that there be additional things that are not located in space and time? Using clear examples, these are just some of the questions that Scott Berman explores as he shows why alternative theories such as Nominalism, Contemporary Aristotelianism, Constructivism, and Classical Aristotelianism, fall short. He demonstrates why the objects of scientific knowledge need to be not located in space or time if they are to do the explanatory work scientists need them to do. The result is a contemporary version of Platonism that provides us with the best way to explain what the objects of scientific understanding are, and how those non-spatiotemporal things relate to the spatiotemporal things of scientific experiments, as well as everything around us, including even ourselves.
Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801469176
Was 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 Plato's 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 "anti-naturalism." Gerson contends that the philosophical position of Plato—Plato’s own Platonism, so to speak—was produced out of a matrix he calls "Ur-Platonism." According to Gerson, Ur-Platonism is the conjunction of five "antis" 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 "antis." 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 "the great exegete of the Platonic revelation."
Author : Douglas Hedley,Sarah Hutton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402064074
This collection of essays offers an overview of the range and breadth of Platonic philosophy in the early modern period. It examines philosophers of Platonic tradition, such as Cusanus, Ficino, and Cudworth. The book also addresses the impact of Platonism on major philosophers of the period, especially Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Shaftesbury and Berkeley.
Author : Alexander J. B. Hampton,John Peter Kenney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108741401
Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding of the Christian theological tradition. At times, Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with an intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternatively, it has been considered a compromising influence, conflicting with the faith's revelatory foundations and distorting its inherent message. In both cases the fundamental importance of Platonism, as a force which Christianity defined itself by and against, is clear. Written by an international team of scholars, this landmark volume examines the history of Christian Platonism from antiquity to the present day, covers key concepts, and engages issues such as the environment, natural science and materialism.
Author : John Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426916
Explores the process by which the intellectual speculations pursued by Plato assumed the nature of a philosophical system.
Author : James Robert Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136580383
This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others. Beginning with accounts of both approaches, Brown defends Platonism by arguing that only a Platonistic approach can account for concept acquisition in a number of special cases in the sciences. He also argues for a particular view of applied mathematics, a view that supports Platonism against Naturalist alternatives. Not only does this engaging book present the Platonist-Naturalist debate over mathematics in a comprehensive fashion, but it also sheds considerable light on non-mathematical aspects of a dispute that is central to contemporary philosophy.
Author : Christian Hengstermann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350172982
This collection provides the first in-depth introduction to the theory of the religious imagination put forward by renowned philosopher Douglas Hedley, from his earliest essays to his principal writings. Featuring Hedley's inaugural lecture delivered at Cambridge University in 2018, the book sheds light on his robust concept of religious imagination as the chief power of the soul's knowledge of the Divine and reveals its importance in contemporary metaphysics, ethics and politics. Chapters trace the development of the religious imagination in Christian Platonism from Late Antiquity to British Romanticism, drawing on Origen, Henry More and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, before providing a survey of alternative contemporary versions of the concept as outlined by Karl Rahner, René Girard and William P. Alston, as well as within Indian philosophy. By bringing Christian Platonist thought into dialogue with contemporary philosophy and theology, the volume systematically reveals the relevance of Hedley's work to current debates in religious epistemology and metaphysics. It offers a comprehensive appraisal of the historical contribution of imagination to religious understanding and, as such, will be of great interest to philosophers, theologians and historians alike.
Author : Algis Uždavinys
Publisher : The Matheson Trust
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781908092076
A book on the religious, mystic origins and substance of philosophy. This is a critical survey of ancient and modern sources and of scholarly works dealing with Orpheus and everything related to this major figure of ancient Greek myth, religion and philosophy. Here poetic madness meets religious initiation and Platonic philosophy. This book contains fascinating insights into the usually downplaid relations between Egyptian initiation, Greek mysteries and Plato's philosophy and followers, right into Hellenistic Neoplatonic and Hermetic developments.
Author : Mauro Bonazzi,Jan Opsomer
Publisher : Peeters
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : 904292182X
From the 1st century BC onwards followers of Plato began to systematize Plato's thought. These attempts went in various directions and were subjected to all kinds of philosophical influences, especially Aristotelian, Stoic, and Pythagorean. The result was a broad variety of Platonisms without orthodoxy. That would only change with Plotinus. This volume, being the fruit of the collaboration among leading scholars in the field, addresses a number of aspects of this period of system building with substantial contributions on Antiochus and Alcinous and their relation to Stoicism; on Pythagoreanising tendencies in Platonism; on Eudorus and the tradition of commentaries on Aristotle's Categories; on the creationism of the Jewish Platonist Philo of Alexandria; on Ammonius, the Egyptian teacher of Plutarch; on Plutarch's discussion of Socrates' guardian spirit. The contributions are in English, French, Italian and German.
Author : Anna Baldwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521403085
This is the first comprehensive overview of the influence of Platonism on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Yeats, Pound and Iris Murdoch, used Platonic themes and images within their own imaginative work.
Author : Mauro Bonazzi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009253420
The first comprehensive account of Platonism from the foundation of Plato's Academy in the fourth century BC to late antiquity.
Author : Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107166196
This book explores the process during 100 BCE-100 CE by which dualistic Platonism became the reigning school in philosophy.
Author : Alcinous,Albinus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003450413
The Handbook of Platonism, or Didaskalikos, attributed to Alcinous (long identified with the Middle Platonist Albinus, but on inadequate grounds), is a central text of later Platonism. In Byzantine times, in the Italian Renaissance, and even up to 1800, it was regarded as an ideal introduction to Plato's thought. In fact it is far from being this, but it is an excellent source for our understanding of Platonism in the second century AD. Neglected after a more accurate view of Plato's thought established itself in the nineteenth century, the Handbook is only now coming to be properly appreciated for what it is. It presents a survey of Platonist doctrine, divided into the topics of Logic, Physics, and Ethics, and pervaded with Aristotelian and Stoic doctrines, all of which are claimed for Plato. John Dillon presents an English translation of this work, accompanied by an introduction and a philosophical commentary in which he disentangles the various strands of influence, elucidates the complex scholastic tradition that lies behind, and thus reveals the sources and subsequent influence of the ideas expounded.