Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition

Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition
Author: Michael Erler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-03-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108922457

All disciplines can count on a noble founder, and the representation of this founder as an authority is key in order to construe a discipline's identity. This book sheds light on how Plato and other authorities were represented in one of the most long-lasting traditions of all time. It leads the reader through exegesis and polemics, recovery of the past and construction of a philosophical identity. From Xenocrates to Proclus, from the sceptical shift to the re-establishment of dogmatism, from the Mosaic of the Philosophers to the Neoplatonist Commentaries, the construction of authority emerges as a way of access to the core of the Platonist tradition.

Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Epicurean Tradition

Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Epicurean Tradition
Author: Michael Erler
Publisher: Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2023-10-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3796548555

Schwabe Epicurea Herausgegeben von Michael Erler und Wolfgang Rother In dieser Reihe erscheinen Texte, Kommentare und Studien zu Epikur und zur epikureischen Tradition bis zur Neuzeit. Dem wissenschaftlichen Beirat gehören an: Graziano Arrighetti (Pisa), Jürgen Hammerstaedt (Köln), Carlos Levy (Paris), Anthony A. Long (University of California, Berkeley), Francesca Longo Auricchio (Napoli), Antony McKenna (Saint-étienne), Günther Mensching (Hannover), Martin Mulsow (Erfurt), Dirk Obbink (Oxford), Gianni Paganini (Vercelli), David Sedley (Christs College, Cambridge), Edoardo Tortarolo (Vercelli) Die Reihe ist offen für die internationale Forschung. Die Bücher können in Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch oder Italienisch abgefasst werden.

Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy

Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy
Author: Vilius Bartninkas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2023-04-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1009322621

This book sheds new light on Plato's cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods. A close reading of the later dialogues shows that the two families of gods are routinely deployed to organise and structure Plato's accounts of the origins of the universe and of humanity and its social institutions, and to illuminate the moral and political ideals of philosophical utopias. Vilius Bartninkas argues that the presence of the two kinds of gods creates a dynamic, yet productive, tension in Plato's thinking which is unmistakable and which is not resolved until the works of his students. Thus the book closes by exploring how the cosmological and religious ideas of Plato's later dialogues resurfaced in the Early Academy and how the debates initiated there ultimately led to the collapse of this theological distinction.

The Realm of Mimesis in Plato

The Realm of Mimesis in Plato
Author: Mariangela Esposito
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2022-12-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004534547

Orality versus writing is a vexed issue in Plato, but is it necessarily an opposition? This book places Plato’s work in the realm of mimesis and argues that we do not necessarily have to see this issue as demonstrating a straightforward opposition.

Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I

Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I
Author: James M. Ambury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1009100211

The first book-length study exclusively devoted to the commentaries of Proclus and Olympiodorus on the Platonic Alcibiades I.

Porphyry in Syriac

Porphyry in Syriac
Author: Yury Arzhanov
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2024-07-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3111388166

In 2021, a previously unknown treatise by Porphyry of Tyre, which has been preserved in a Syriac translation, was made available to historians of philosophy: Porphyry, On Principles and Matter (De Gruyter, 2021). This text not only enlarges our knowledge of the legacy of the most prominent disciple of Plotinus but also serves as an important witness to Platonist discussions of first principles and of Plato’s concept of prime matter in the Timaeus. The aim of the present volume of collected studies is two-fold. On the one hand, it brings up an update to the state of the art of our knowledge of Porphyry’s philosophy and of his role in the transmission of the earlier philosophical materials, especially those of the Middle Platonic works. On the other hand, it focuses on the questions of the reception of Porphyry’s legacy, both by Greek and Latin Platonists (with special interest in Calcidius) and by Christian Oriental authors (with particular focus on the Syriac tradition). The primary audience of the book will be scholars and graduate students in ancient and late ancient Greek philosophy, Orientalists and scholars interested in the Christian reception of Greek philosophy, in the studies of the Christian Orient, as well as in Greek, Latin, and Syriac philology.

The Entangled Enoch: 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity

The Entangled Enoch: 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity
Author: Grant Macaskill
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2024-05-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004695095

This study reframes and reorients the study of 2 Enoch, moving beyond debates about Christian or Jewish authorship and considering the work in the context of eclectic and erudite cultures in late antiquity, particularly Syria. The study compares the work with the Parables of Enoch and then with a variety of writings associated with late antique Syrian theology, demonstrating the distinctively eclectic character of 2 Enoch. It offers new paradigms for research into the pseudepigrapha.

Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy

Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy
Author: Jenny Bryan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2018-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316510042

Offers a collection of essays exploring notions of authority and authorship through ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.