The Theology Of The Epinomis

Author : Vera Calchi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000803907

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The Theology of the Epinomis by Vera Calchi Pdf

This is the first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis. It argues that the work offers a revised Platonic conception of the divine better suited to the political-religious imperatives of the post-Classical age. The Epinomis is the ‘appendix’ to Plato’s Laws likely written by Plato’s student and disciple, Philip of Opus, who is believed to have taken care of the arrangement and posthumous editing of the Laws into twelve books. Through a comprehensive analysis of the Epinomis’ lexicon, and comparisons with the Corpus Platonicum, Vera Calchi offers readers an insight into the Epinomis’ philosophical and historical context, purpose, and legacy. Calchi argues that Philip effectively reshapes Plato’s metaphysical language into a theology premised on the immanence of God in the heavens. The resulting account of God’s providential activity in the cosmos, which offers a new way of thinking about morality and political order, can be regarded as a major step towards the cosmic theology of the Hellenistic period. The Theology of the Epinomis is suitable for students and scholars of ancient philosophy, particularly those working on the Epinomis and Platonic philosophy. It will also be of interest to those studying the history of religion and theology in antiquity.

Author : Theokritos Kouremenos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110601862

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Plato’s forms, mathematics and astronomy by Theokritos Kouremenos Pdf

Plato’s view that mathematics paves the way for his philosophy of forms is well known. This book attempts to flesh out the relationship between mathematics and philosophy as Plato conceived them by proposing that in his view, although it is philosophy that came up with the concept of beings, which he calls forms, and highlighted their importance, first to natural philosophy and then to ethics, the things that do qualify as beings are inchoately revealed by mathematics as the raw materials that must be further processed by philosophy (mathematicians, to use Plato’s simile in the Euthedemus, do not invent the theorems they prove but discover beings and, like hunters who must hand over what they catch to chefs if it is going to turn into something useful, they must hand over their discoveries to philosophers). Even those forms that do not bear names of mathematical objects, such as the famous forms of beauty and goodness, are in fact forms of mathematical objects. The first chapter is an attempt to defend this thesis. The second argues that for Plato philosophy’s crucial task of investigating the exfoliation of the forms into the sensible world, including the sphere of human private and public life, is already foreshadowed in one of its branches, astronomy.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1990 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317380573

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Routledge Library Editions: Aristotle by Various Pdf

Reissuing works originally published between 1938 and 1993, this set offers a range of scholarship covering Aristotle’s logic, virtues and mathematics as well as a consideration of De Anima and of his work on physics, specifically light. The first two books are in themselves a pair, which investigate the philosopher’s life and his lost works and development of his thought.

Author : Anton-Hermann Chroust
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317380658

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Aristotle: New Light on His Life and On Some of His Lost Works, Volume 2 by Anton-Hermann Chroust Pdf

Originally published in 1973. Aristotle’s early works probably belong to the formative era of his philosophic thought and as such contribute vitally to the understanding and evaluation of the development of his philosophy. This book shows that the philosophy propagated in these lost works indicates an undeniable Platonism, and thus seems to conflict with the basic doctrines in the traditional treatises collected in the Corpus Aristotelicum. Was the author of the lost early works and the later preserved treatises one and the same person, or were some of these treatises written by members of the Early Peripatus? This, the second of two volumes, discusses in detail certain decisive aspects of Aristotle’s early works. Fascinating hypotheses and conjectures put forward here provoke discussion and further investigation in the ‘Aristotelian Problem’.

Author : Vilius Bartninkas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009322591

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Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy by Vilius Bartninkas Pdf

Shows how Plato's distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods sheds new light on his relation to Greek religion.

Author : Proclus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Neoplatonism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013511097

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On the theology of Plato by Proclus Pdf

Author : Richard Bodeus,Richard Bodéüs,Richard Bodéü s
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791447278

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Aristotle and the Theology of the Living Immortals by Richard Bodeus,Richard Bodéüs,Richard Bodéü s Pdf

Bodeus argues that Aristotle is more closely aligned with popular Greek religion than is usually thought, and attention to the ethical and political writings reveals more about Aristotle's resources for conceiving the gods than study of his theoretical works.".

Author : Katarzyna Ja:zd:zewska,Katarzyna Jażdżewska
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192893352

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Greek Dialogue in Antiquity by Katarzyna Ja:zd:zewska,Katarzyna Jażdżewska Pdf

Greek Dialogue in Antiquity reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE - that is, roughly from Plato's death to the death of Philo of Alexandria. Although the genre of dialogue in antiquity has attracted a growing interest in the past two decades, the time covered in this book has remained overlooked and unresearched, with scholars believing that for much of this period the dialogue genre went through a period of decline and was revived only in the Roman times. The book carefully reassesses Post-Platonic and Hellenistic evidence, including papyri fragments, which have never been discussed in this context, and challenges the narrative of the dialogue's decline and subsequent revival, postulating, instead, the genre's unbroken continuity from the Classical period to the Roman Empire. It argues that dialogues and texts creatively interacting with dialogic conventions were composed throughout Hellenistic times, and proposes to reconceptualize the imperial period dialogue as evidence not of a resurgence, but of continuity in this literary tradition.

Author : John Ogilvie
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag AG
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Theology
ISBN : CORNELL:31924006238392

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The Theology of Plato by John Ogilvie Pdf

Author : William H. F. Altman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498529525

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The Guardians on Trial by William H. F. Altman Pdf

In this book, William H. F. Altman argues that it is not order of composition but reading order that makes Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phaedo “late dialogues,” and shows why Plato’s decision to interpolate the notoriously “late” Sophist and Statesman between Euthyphro and Apology deserves more respect from interpreters.

Author : Adam Drozdek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317124696

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Greek Philosophers as Theologians by Adam Drozdek Pdf

Concepts of God presented by Greek philosophers were significantly different from the image of the divine of popular religion and indicate a fairly sophisticated theological reflection from the very inception of Greek philosophy. This book presents a comprehensive history of theological thought of Greek philosophers from the Presocratics to the early Hellenistic period. Concentrating on views concerning the attributes of God and their impact on eschatological and ethical thought, Drozdek explains that theology was of paramount importance for all Greek philosophers even in the absence of purely theological or religious language.

Author : William H. F. Altman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739177693

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The German Stranger by William H. F. Altman Pdf

The German Stranger provides a guide to Leo Strauss that situates his thought in the context of National Socialism; by destroying any middle ground between 'Athens' and 'Jerusalem,' Strauss undermined modernity's secular bulwark against political theology. Once National Socialism is understood as an atheistic religion re-enacted by post-Revelation 'philosophers,' the German avatar of Plato's Athenian Stranger can be recognized as its principal theoretician.

Author : Phillip Sidney Horky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108423649

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Cosmos in the Ancient World by Phillip Sidney Horky Pdf

Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.

Author : Proclus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1908088028

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The Theology of Plato by Proclus Pdf

Author : Richard Bodeus
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791447286

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Aristotle and the Theology of the Living Immortals by Richard Bodeus Pdf

This book argues that Aristotle used "the most traditional Greek ideas about the gods" to develop and defend his physical, metaphysical, and ethical teachings. This revolutionary thesis stands in stark contrast to studies of Aristotle's texts that normally portray him as a "natural theologian" using rational tools to elaborate his own conception of God or the gods. Bodeus argues that Aristotle is more closely aligned with popular Greek religion than is usually thought, and attention to the ethical and political writings reveals more about Aristotle's resources for conceiving the gods than study of his theoretical works.