Plato and Platonism and Related Esoteric Essays: Theosophical Classics

Plato and Platonism and Related Esoteric Essays: Theosophical Classics
Author: Helena P. Blavatsky
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2019-12-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1631184326

Four notable esoteric authors examine the works of Plato and his impact on the Theosophical and Esoteric belief systems. Included here are: The Teachings of Plato, Plato and Platonism, The Platonic Philosopher's Creed and Plato's Conception of the Function of True Art.

Essays on the Esoteric Tradition of Karma: Theosophical Classics

Essays on the Esoteric Tradition of Karma: Theosophical Classics
Author: Helena P. Blavatsky
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2019-12-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1631184261

Three prominent esoteric writers explore the tradition of karma, especially as it relates to Theosophy. Included here is: Karma, Aphorisms on Karma, Karma in the Desatir, Thoughts on Karma, Men Karmic Agents, Is Karma Only Punishment?, Is Poverty Bad Karma?, Thoughts on Karma and Reincarnation, Karma-Nemesis and Elementary Lessons on Karma.

An Outline of Theosophy: Theosophical Classics

An Outline of Theosophy: Theosophical Classics
Author: C. W. Leadbeater
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2020-01-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1631184520

Renowned esoteric author, C. W. Leadbeater, breaks down the philosophy of Theosophical belief. What it is, the principles, religious aspects and much more.

The Winged Chariot

The Winged Chariot
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004247548

The volume discusses important chapters of Platonic philosophy, including its pre-Socratic origins and later developments. It particularly focusses on the relationship between Plato's logico-semantics and his metaphysics. Plato's linguistic views are deeply rooted in the Platonic metaphysical system, and vice versa. The strong connection between the two and its development into the Middle Ages form a major subject of this volume. Other themes featuring in this book are Plato's philosophy of nature, his epistemology, his theology, his cosmology, as well as his conception of the soul and his philosophy of art. Contributors include: E.P. Bos, Frans A.J. de Haas, Maria Kardaun, C.H. Kneepkens, Jaap Mansfeld, Denis O’Brien, Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Willemien Otten, David T. Runia, and Joke Spruyt. Publications by L.M. de Rijk: • La philosophie au moyen âge, ISBN: 978 90 04 06936 7 • Aristotle: Semantics and Ontology. Volume I: General Introduction. The Works on Logic, ISBN: 978 90 04 12324 3 • Aristotle: Semantics and Ontology. Volume II: The Metaphysics. Semantics in Aristotle's Strategy of Argument, ISBN: 978 90 04 12467 7 • Peter of Spain (Petrus Hispanus Portugalensis). Edited by L.M. de Rijk, Syncategoreumata. First Critical Edition with an Introduction and Indexes, ISBN: 978 90 04 09434 5 • Edited and Translated by L.M. de Rijk, Nicholas of Autrecourt: His Correspondence with Master Giles and Bernard of Arezzo, ISBN: 978 90 04 09988 3 • Giraldus Odonis O.F.M. Edited by L.M. de Rijk, Opera Philosophica. Vol. I: Logica. Critical Edition from the Manuscripts, ISBN: 978 90 04 10950 6 • Giraldus Odonis O.F.M. Edited by L.M. de Rijk, Opera Philosophica. Vol. II: De intentionibus, ISBN: 978 90 04 11117 2

Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy III

Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy III
Author: John P. Anton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1989-07-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0791495043

The Plato who emerges from these essays is the seminal thinker, the profound philosopher, the master of dialectic who offers, together with his insights into reality and human values, a systematically developed set of powerful devices for the articulation and defence of his ideas. In each case the discussion unfolds not as advocacy of Platonic doctrines but as critical assessment of argument, and is meant as judicious explication of the logical form of significant theses often believed, during centuries of Platonic commentary, to be cornerstones of a monumental speculative system. It demonstrates a shared and strikingly high regard for Plato as a major thinker in the western philosophical tradition, a recognition that the dialogues he wrote continue to exert influence as well as attract theoretical attention. Taken together with the material on Plato in Volume II, Volume III displays a definite continuity in direction, scope, and quality, strengthening the conviction that Platonic scholarship has entered a new and different phase and has consolidated the approach that this new movement introduced.

The Vitality of Platonism, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)

The Vitality of Platonism, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)
Author: James Adam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-06-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781330470107

Excerpt from The Vitality of Platonism, and Other Essays These essays were read by my husband as papers or lectures on various occasions. The Divine Origin of the Soul was published in Cambridge Praelections, 1906, and The Moral and Intellectual Value of Classical Education in the Emmanuel College Magazine, Vol. vii. I have to thank the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press and the editor of the magazine respectively for their kind permission to reprint them. The Vitality of Platonism was read to the Classical Society at Aberdeen University in 1902, and to a similar society in Edinburgh in the following year. The Doctrine of the Logos in Heraclitus is a paper read before the Oxford University Philological Society in 1906. The essay entitled The Hymn of Cleanthes contains the substance of three lectures delivered in 1906 at Westminster College, Cambridge, before a Summer School of Theology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Defining Platonism

Defining Platonism
Author: John F. Finamore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780996930536

This collection of essays surveys a wide range of methods of Platonic interpretation, ranging from the dialogues themselves, to Middle and Neoplatonic interpretations of Plato's writings, to modern uses of Platonism. As a philosophical movement, Platonism is broadly conceived, covering schools and philosophers beginning with Plato and his immediate followers and extending through contemporary philosophers. The history of Platonism begins, of course, with Plato himself. But his adoption of the dialogue style and his active engagement with students in his Academy, where he certainly used dialectic techniques, led almost immediately to questioning what Plato's doctrines actually were. His student Aristotle raised questions of interpretations and invoked esoteric teachings not present in the written works. The earliest heads of the Academy struggled with Plato's texts as well, creating rival interpretations. These early discussions gave rise to later ones, and Platonism became simultaneously a dogmatic philosophy and a source of sometimes-heated debate of what the master intended. From its inception, Platonism was a dynamic philosophy, open to varied interpretations on different fronts while also maintaining a common core of beliefs. Platonism gave rise to methods of interpretation that centered on historical, ethical, political, or metaphysical questions engendered by Plato's writings. The ancient commentators reflected the teachings of their predecessors, and with only a few schools in the Greco-Roman world, many of their students studying under the same teachers, meant a heightened continuity in the tradition of interpretation. This volume honors the seventy-fifth birthday of John Dillon, the great scholar of Platonism whose scholarship had a pivotal role in defining Platonism as a philosophical movement in contemporary academia.