From Plato to Platonism

# Read ! From Plato to Platonism by Lloyd P. Gerson ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. From Plato to Platonism THE SUMMARY OF THE STUDY OF ALL CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY! Gary Moore AS the summary of the study of all Classical philosophy, 1] the whole history of Neoplatonism including especially the REJECTION by modern scholars is LOGICALLY reexamined as the dual lens of Platonism (but where did it come from? Why is it so different from Presocratic philosophy?) and Aristotelianism (Where did IT come from if its MAJOR SOURCE is NOT Plato? What is the solid evidence that Aristotle is NOT through and through

From Plato to Platonism

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Rating : 4.28 (684 Votes)
Asin : 150171063X
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 360 Pages
Publish Date : 2017-07-21
Language : English

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This work enhances Gerson's considerable reputation as an interpreter of the Greek philosophical tradition."John Dillon, Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, author of The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy "This is a fascinating bookerudite yet accessiblethat rejects the nineteenth-century split, widely accepted in the modern world, between a supposed originary 'Plato' and the subsequent history of Platonism. It persuasively makes a case for understanding Plato's philosophy as a coherent system that has an intricate and meaningful relation to later Platonistic philosophical positions. Gerson formulates in a new way the basic presuppositions behind Platonism and works them out with proper attention to the Old Academy, the New Academy, and the 'Middle' Platonists in a way that has not been done before, as well a

THE SUMMARY OF THE STUDY OF ALL CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY! Gary Moore AS "the summary of the study of all Classical philosophy", 1] the whole history of Neoplatonism including especially the REJECTION by modern 'scholars' is LOGICALLY reexamined as the dual lens of Platonism (but where did it come from? Why is it so different from Presocratic philosophy?) and Aristotelianism (Where did IT come from if its MAJOR SOURCE is NOT Plato? What is the solid evidence that Aristotle is NOT through and through 'Platonic' and what does "Platonic" PRECISELY mean here?) 2] All the terms ONLY emotionally - from Christianity - grounded in Aristotle by modern scholars (from the Enlightenment on) such as "God", "love", "d

Gerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of many books, including Aristotle and Other Platonists and From Plato to Platonism, also from Cornell, and Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato, and editor of The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity.. Lloyd P

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. 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 PlatoPlato’s own Platonism, so to speakwas 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. Gerson argues that the ancients were correct in their assessment. Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern sc

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