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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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Lloyd P. Gerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of many books, including
Aristotle and Other Platonists, also from Cornell, and
Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato, and editor of
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity.
Zusammenfassung
Lloyd P. Gerson argues that Plato was a Platonist and challenges fundamental assumptions about how Plato’s teachings have come to be understood.
