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Informationen zum Autor Troels Engberg-Pedersen is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen. He has moved freely between the disciplines of classics, ancient philosophy and Christian theology (the New Testament), and has published major monographs on Aristotle's Ethics, Stoic ethics, the Apostle Paul (and Stoicism) and, most recently, the Gospel of John (and philosophy). Klappentext This book explores the process during 100 BCE-100 CE by which dualistic Platonism became the reigning school in philosophy. Zusammenfassung A team of experts explores the change in philosophy from around 100 BCE! when monistic Stoicism was the strongest dogmatic school in philosophy! to around 100 CE! when dualistic Platonism began to gain the upper hand - with huge consequences for all later Western philosophy and for Christianity. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: a historiographical essay Troels Engberg-Pedersen; 2. Plato, Chrysippus and Posidonius' theory of affective movements A. G. Long; 3. Cicero's Plato Malcolm Schofield; 4. Are we nearly there yet? Eudorus on Aristotle's Categories George Boys-Stones; 5. Stoicism and Platonism in Arius Didymus Myrto Hatzimichali; 6. Oikei¿sis in Stoicism, Antiochus and Arius Didymus Christopher Gill; 7. The Platonist appropriation of Stoic epistemology Mauro Bonazzi; 8. 'Becoming like God' in Platonism and Stoicism Gretchen Reydams-Schils; 9. From Stoicism to Platonism: the difficult case of Philo of Alexandria's De providentia I David T. Runia; 10. From Cicero to Philo of Alexandria: ascending and descending axes in the interpretation of Platonism and Stoicism Carlos Lévy; 11. The love of wisdom: Middle Platonism and Stoicism in the Wisdom of Solomon Gregory E. Sterling; 12. Seneca and Epictetus on body, mind and dualism A. A. Long; 13. The dilemma of Paul's physics: features Stoic-Platonist or Platonist-Stoic? Stanley Stowers; 14. The legacy of Musonius Rufus Brad Inwood; 15. Stoic and Platonic reflections on naming in early Christian circles: or what's in a name? Harold W. Attridge; 16. Is Plutarch really hostile to the Stoics? Jan Opsomer; 17. Peripatetic appropriations of oikei¿sis: Alexander, Mantissa, chapter 17 Charles Brittain; Bibliography; Index of passages; General index....
