The Badia Fiesolana

The Badia Fiesolana

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  • Author: Angela Dressen
  • Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
  • ISBN: 3643908083
  • Category : History
  • Languages : it
  • Pages : 217

The monastery of the Badia Fiesolana on the outskirts of Florence has often been seen as a secondary project of the Medici. However new research has shown that the family's involvement in its financial, cultural, intellectual, religious and artistic affairs is central to its development under Cosimo and Lorenzo de'Medici during the 15th century. In the remarkable setting of the Badia, where art and architectural structure was studied anew, erudite abbots encountered learned humanists. The proceedings of a conference held in 2013 shed new light on cultural and scholarly life in and around Florence. Angela Dressen is Andrew W. Mellon Librarian at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Klaus Pietschmann is Professor for Musicology at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz.


Argumenta in dialogos Platonis: Platoninterpretation und ihre Hermeneutik von der Antike bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts : Akten des Internationalen Symposions vom 27.-29. April 2006 im Istituto Svizzero di Roma

Argumenta in dialogos Platonis: Platoninterpretation und ihre Hermeneutik von der Antike bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts : Akten des Internationalen Symposions vom 27.-29. April 2006 im Istituto Svizzero di Roma

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  • Author: Kaspar Howald
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Hermeneutics
  • Languages : de
  • Pages : 496

Mit der BHR will das Schweizerische Institut in Rom (SIR) die traditionsreiche, seit 1954 bestehende Publikationsreihe unter einem zeitgemass sowie einheitlich gestalteten Erscheinungsbild fortfuhren. Inhaltlich handelt es sich vornehmlich um von Institutsmitgliedern verfasste Monographien sowie um Publikationen zu den im SIR veranstalteten wissenschaftlichen Tagungen und Seminaren. Das Denken Platons bildet die Grundlage der gesamten abendlandischen Philosophie. Jedoch bietet sein Verstandnis bedeutende Schwierigkeiten; diese resultieren aus Platons Wahl, einerseits seine Philosophie in die Form des sokratischen Dialogs giessen, andererseits Objekte des Denkens postuliert zu haben, die sogenannten 'Ideen', welche einen autonomen Seinsbereich bilden. Seit der Antike bis heute haben die Interpreten Platons immer wieder neue Strategien entwickelt, um die besonderen Schwierigkeiten des Verstehens Platons uberwinden zu konnen. Dieses Werk liefert die erste historisch-systematische Untersuchung daruber, welche Interpretationsgrundsatze, d.h. welche Hermeneutik, die Interpreten uber die Jahrhunderte hinweg geleitet hat, um eine je neue und andere Deutung des attischen Philosophen zu entwickeln und in einem Kommentar darzulegen. Der hier angezeigte erste Band enthalt die Geschichte der Platon-Hermeneutik und -Interpretation von den Mittelplatonikern bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der zweite Band wird die Epoche des Historismus und seine Auswirkungen bis in die aktuelle Gegenwart beleuchten.


The Arabic Plotinus

The Arabic Plotinus

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  • Author: Peter Adamson
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781463207182
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 260

The so-called "Theology of Aristotle" is a translation of the Enneads of Plotinus, the most important representative of late ancient Platonism. It was produced in the 9th century CE within the circle of al-Kindī, one of the most important groups for the early reception of Greek thought in Arabic. In part because the "Theology" was erroneously transmitted under Aristotle's authorship, it became the single most important conduit by which Neoplatonism reached the Islamic world. It is referred to by such thinkers as al-Fārābī, in an attempt to demonstrate the agreement between Platonism and Aristotelianism, Avicenna, who wrote a set of comments on the text, and later on thinkers of Safavid Persia including Mullā Ṣadrā. Yet the "Theology" is not just a translation. It may in fact more accurately be described as a creative paraphrase, which takes frequent liberties with the source text and even includes whole paragraphs' worth of new material. Adamson's book offers a philosophical interpretation of the changes introduced in the Arabic version. It is argued that these changes were in part intended to show the relevance of Plotinus' thought for contemporary Islamic culture, for instance by connecting the Neoplatonist theory of the First Principle to theological disputes within Islam over the status of God's attributes. At the same time the paraphrase reflects a tendency to harmonize the various strands of Greek thought, so that a critique by Plotinus of Aristotle's theory of the soul is subtly changed into a defense of Aristotle's theory against a possible misinterpretation. The upshot, or so Adamson argues, is that the "Theology" needs to be read as an original philosophical work in its own right, and understood within the context of the ʿAbbāsid era.


The Classical Tradition

The Classical Tradition

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  • Author: Anthony Grafton
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN: 9780674035720
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1188

The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.


CICERO

CICERO

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  • Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521882249
  • Category : History
  • Languages : la
  • Pages : 259

A 2010 Latin text and commentary for Cicero's career-making speech defending Sextus Roscius on the charge of murdering his father.


The Continuum Companion to Plato

The Continuum Companion to Plato

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  • Author: Gerald A. Press
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1441161414
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 377

Plato, mathematician, philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, is, together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, universally considered to have laid the foundations of Western philosophy. His philosophical dialogues remain among the most widely read and influential of all philosophical texts and his enduring influence on virtually every area of philosophical enterprise cannot be exaggerated. This comprehensive and accessible guide to Plato's life and times includes more than 140 entries, written by a team of leading experts in the field of ancient philosophy, covering every aspect of Plato's thought. The Companion presents details of Plato's life, historical, philosophical and literary context, synopses of all the dialogues attributed to Plato, a comprehensive overview of the various features, themes and topics apparent in the dialogues, and a thorough account of his enduring influence and the various interpretative approaches applied to his thought throughout the history of philosophy. This is an essential reference tool for anyone working in the field of ancient philosophy.


Commentary on Plato's Timaeus

Commentary on Plato's Timaeus

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  • Author: Proclus
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521845955
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 218

Proclus' Commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. This edition offers the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It provides an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato's dialogue, while also presenting Proclus' own views on the meaning and significance of Platonic philosophy. The present volume, the third in the edition, offers a substantial introduction and notes designed to help readers unfamiliar with this author. It presents Proclus' version of Plato's account of the elements and the mathematical proportions which bind together the body of the world.


The Platonic Alcibiades I

The Platonic Alcibiades I

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  • Author: François Renaud
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1316390306
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

Although it was influential for several hundred years after it first appeared, doubts about the authenticity of the Platonic Alcibiades I have unnecessarily impeded its interpretation ever since. It positions itself firmly within the Platonic and Socratic traditions, and should therefore be approached in the same way as most other Platonic dialogues. It paints a vivid portrait of a Socrates in his late thirties tackling the unrealistic ambitions of the youthful Alcibiades, urging him to come to know himself and to care for himself. François Renaud and Harold Tarrant re-examine the drama and philosophy of Alcibiades I with an eye on those interpreters who cherished it most. Modern scholars regularly play down one or more of the religious, erotic, philosophic or dramatic aspects of the dialogue, so ancient Platonist interpreters are given special consideration. This rich study will interest a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy.


Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity

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  • Author: Harold Tarrant
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004355383
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 679

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity demonstrates the variety of ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as author, as philosopher, and as leading intellectual light, from his own pupils until the sixth century CE.


Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

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  • Author: Marguerite Johnson
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1472504461
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

This carefully focussed volume covers aspects of the background to Alcibiades I; the philosophical issues it raises and its relationship to other Platonic texts.