Lloyd P. Gerson: From Plato to Platonism

Cover: 9781501710636 | From Plato to Platonism | Lloyd P. Gerson | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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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 were 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."

Über den Autor

Lloyd P. Gerson

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part 1. Plato and His Readers

1. Was Plato a Platonist?

Plato and Platonism

Ur-Platonism

From Plato to Platonism

2. Socrates and Platonism

The 'Socratic Problem'

Gregory Vlastos

Terry Penner

Christopher Rowe

3. Reading the Dialogues Platonically

Plato and Developmentalism

Plato the Artist, Plato the Philosopher

Plato's Self-Testimony

4. Aristotle on Plato and Platonism

Aristotle and Ur-Platonism

Aristotle's Testimony on the Mathematization of Forms

Aristotle's Criticism of the Mathematization of Forms

Part 2. The Continuing Creation of Platonism

5. The Old Academy

Speusippus and First Principles

Speusippean Knowledge

Xenocrates

6. The Academic Skeptics

What Is Academic Skepticism?

Skepticism, Rationalism, and Platonism

7. Platonism in the 'Middle'

Antiochus of Ascalon

Plutarch of Chaeronea

Alcinous

8. Numenius of Apamea

On the Good

Part 3. Plotinus: "Exegete of the Platonic Revelation"

9. Platonism as a System

The First Principle of All

Intellect

Soul

Matter

10. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (1)

Matter in the Platonic System

Substance and Becoming

Categories in the Intelligible World

The One and the Indefinite Dyad

The Good Is Eros

11. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (2)

Human and Person

Assimilation to the Divine

Moral Responsibility

Conclusion

Bibliography

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781501710636
ISBN-10:	150171063X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gerson, Lloyd P.
Hersteller:	Cornell University Press
Maße:	232 x 155 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Lloyd P. Gerson
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.12.2017
Gewicht:	0,58 kg

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