Traditional And Cosmic Gods In Later Plato And The Early Academy
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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.
Author | : Vilius Bartninkas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2023-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009322591 |
Shows how Plato's distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods sheds new light on his relation to Greek religion.
Author | : Paul Kalligas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2020-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108426441 |
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato's Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years. Also includes the first complete annotated translation in English of Philodemus' History of the Academy, preserved on a papyrus from Herculaneum.
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.
Author | : Manuel Cojocaru |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 165 |
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ISBN | : 3031619137 |
Author | : Vilius Bartninkas |
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Release | : 2019 |
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004504699 |
This book assembles an international team of scholars to move forward the study of Plato’s conception of time, to find fresh insights for interpreting his cosmology, and to reimagine the Platonic tradition.
Author | : Karsten Friis Johansen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 727 |
Release | : 2005-06-20 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134798253 |
Translated into English for the first time, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought.
Author | : Christina Hoenig |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2018-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108415806 |
The book explores the development of Platonic philosophy by Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. Discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how they contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism.
Author | : Jostein Gaarder |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 735 |
Release | : 2007-03-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466804270 |
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.