Aristotle and Other Platonists

Aristotle and Other Platonists

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  • Author: Lloyd P. Gerson
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN: 1501716964
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 348

"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.


Commentary and tradition

Commentary and tradition

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  • Author: Pierluigi Donini
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3110218720
  • Category : History
  • Languages : de
  • Pages : 469

The volume collects the most important papers Pierluigi Donini wrote in the last three decades with the aim of promoting a better assessment of post-hellenistic philosophy. By focusing on the mutual confrontation with Plato's and Aristotle's texts for the development of both Aristotelianism and Platonism, Donini's papers provide the readers


Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC

Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC

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  • Author: Malcolm Schofield
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139619802
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

This book presents an up-to-date overview of the main new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC, a period in which the dominance exercised in the Hellenistic age by Stoicism, Epicureanism and Academic Scepticism gave way to a more diverse and experimental philosophical scene. Its development has been much less well understood, but here a strong international team of leading scholars of the subject reconstruct key features of the changed environment. They examine afresh the evidence for some of the central Greek thinkers of the period, as well as illuminating Cicero's engagement with Plato both as translator and in his own philosophising. The intensity of renewed study of Aristotle's Categories and Plato's Timaeus is an especially striking outcome of their discussions. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and students interested in the history of Platonism and Aristotelianism.


Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato

Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato

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  • Author: Ilsetraut Hadot
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004281592
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 198

Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato by Ilsetraut Hadot deals with the Neoplatonist tendency to harmonize the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle.


Plato, Aristotle, Or Both?

Plato, Aristotle, Or Both?

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  • Author: Thomas Bénatouïl
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9783487145457
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278

This volume gathers an international team of renowned scholars in the fields of ancient greek philosophy, in order to explore the continuous but changing dialogue between Platonism and Aristotelianism from the early imperial age to the end of Antiquity. While most chapters concern Platonists (Philo, Plutarch, Plotinus, Syrianus, Proclus, Damascius, Philoponus), and their uses or criticism of Aristotle's doctrines, several chapters are also devoted to Peripatetic authors (Boethius and mostly Alexander of Aphrodisias) and their attitudes towards Plato's positions. Each of the eleven chapters draws the attention to specific polemical contexts and philosophical problems which made Platonists and Aristotelians unite against common adversaries like the Stoics, or split up, not only in the fields of metaphysics and cosmology, but also in epistemology, psychology and ethics.


Plato and Aristotle in Agreement?

Plato and Aristotle in Agreement?

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  • Author: George E. Karamanolis
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199264562
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 430

George Karamanolis breaks new ground in the study of later ancient philosophy by examining the interplay of the two main schools of thought, Platonism and Aristotelianism, from the first century BC to the third century AD. Arguing against prevailing scholarly assumption, he argues that the Platonists turned to Aristotle only in order to elucidate Plato's doctrines and to reconstruct Plato's philosophy, and that they did not hesitate to criticize Aristotle when judging him to be at odds with Plato. Karamanolis offers much food for thought to ancient philosophers and classicists.


Aristotelians and Platonists

Aristotelians and Platonists

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  • Author: Luigi Morelli
  • Publisher: iUniverse
  • ISBN: 1491781076
  • Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 408

At the heart of this book is Rudolf Steiner’s “culmination in the twentieth century,” or the convergence of the working of Aristotelians and Platonists for the renewal of culture. And questions arise. Where is the whole of the School of Michael at present? How can we characterize and honor one and the other stream, and avoid stereotypes and misunderstandings? This work approaches the matter in its historical unfolding, in three successive steps, in which Steiner/Aristotle’s and Plato/Schröer’s incarnations form a thread. The first tableau opens up in the previous Age of Michael, in Greece, when Plato and Aristotle inaugurated the work of the two Michaelic streams. The second addresses the Middle Ages, and centers around the contrast between Alain de Lille and Thomas Aquinas, between the School of Chartres and Scholasticism. Steiner’s and Schröer’s life tasks in the nineteenth century form the prelude to the present. The heart of the book, and its longest section, looks at the present. It contrasts the working of Aristotelians and Platonists in the natural sciences, in psychology and in the social sciences. From the ground of extensive observation and characterization, it then turns to pressing questions. What can Platonists learn from Aristotelians? And how about the reverse? Starting from the example of individuals meeting across the streams, how can we extend this understanding so that it becomes an ongoing practice and a cultural concern? How can Michaelic individuals and institutions work in ways that honor the whole of the Michaelic movement?


Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy II

Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy II

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  • Author: John Peter Anton
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 9780873956239
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 572

Papers presented to the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy since its beginnings in the 1950's.


New Essays on Plato and Aristotle (RLE: Plato)

New Essays on Plato and Aristotle (RLE: Plato)

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  • Author: Renford Bambrough
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136236376
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 194

What can the study of the history of ancient philosophy bring to the study of contemporary philosophical problems and questions? In New Essays on Plato and Aristotle eight distinguished philosophers address topics in Greek philosophy that are connected with current philosophical issues. All the essays are original and include Gilbert Ryle on Dialectic in the Academy and R. M. Hare on Plato’s indictment of mathematicians.


The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy

The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy

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  • Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 9780300041149
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220

One of this century's most important philosophers here focuses on Plato's Protagoras, Phaedo, Republic, and Philebus and on Aristotle's three moral treatises to show the essential continuity of Platonic and Aristotelian reflection on the nature of the good. "Well translated and usefully annotated by P. Christopher Smith.... Gadamer's book exhibits a broad and grand vision as well as a great love for the Greek thinkers."--Alexander Nehemas, New York Times Book Review "The translation is highly readable. The translator's introduction and frequent annotation provide special elucidation on points of doctrinal complexity, giving ample references to other works and rival interpretations."--Choice "This book is an important addition to the steadily growing number of Gadamer's works available in English. In it, we see Gadamer at his best, that is, engaged in the practice of interpreting important texts from the philosophical tradition, and also at his most controversial.... I enthusiastically recommend this...challenging book as one that rewards all efforts to understand the important claims it makes on its readers."--Francis J. Ambrosio, International Philosophy Quarterly Hans-Georg Gadamer is professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of numerous books, including two others translated by Smith: Dialogue and Dialectic: Eight Hermeneutical Studies on Plato and Hegel's Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies.