Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I - Crafting the Contemplative

"Bringing together both works to reveal a common vision of philosophy as it was understood in the lecture halls of late antiquity, this monograph is the only book-length study exclusively devoted to the reception of the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades I in the commentaries of Proclus (412-485 AD) and Olympiodorus (495-560 AD)"--

List of contents

Introduction: Curriculum and Contemplative; 1. The Self-Knowledge Necessity: Opening Remarks; 2. Exalting Eros: Proem (103a1-106c2); 3. How Should I Live?: The Elenctic Section (106c3-119a7); 4. What Do I Want?: The Protreptic Section (119a8-124a8); 5. Who Am I?: The Maieutic Section (124a8-135e8).

About the author

James M. Ambury is Associate Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous articles on the Platonic tradition, and the co-editor (with Andy German) of Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy (Cambridge 2019).

Summary

Bringing together both works to reveal a common vision of philosophy as it was understood in the lecture halls of late antiquity, this monograph is the only book-length study exclusively devoted to the reception of the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades I in the commentaries of Proclus (412–485 AD) and Olympiodorus (495–60 AD).

Foreword

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

Product details

• Authors: James M. Ambury, James M. (King''s College Ambury
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781009100212
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0910021-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Ancient World, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, c 1 to c 500 CE