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" Platonist philosophy 80 BC to AD 250 : "
George Boys-Stones.
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BL
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879021
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Boys-Stones, G. R.
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Platonist philosophy 80 BC to AD 250 : : an introduction and collection of sources in translation /\ George Boys-Stones.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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Cambridge source books in post-Hellenistic philosophy
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xiv, 648 pages ;; 24 cm.
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0521547393
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: 0521838584
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: 9780521547390
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: 9780521838580
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9781108229487 (PDF ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Introduction : studying middle Platonism -- Plato's authority and the history of philosophy -- Making sense of the dialogues -- I. Cosmology. Causal principles for a non-materialist cosmology -- The debate over matter and the problem of evil -- Paradigm forms -- The creator God -- Theories of creation -- World soul and nature -- Individual souls and their faculties -- Living beings : gods, daimons, humans, animals, plants -- Providence -- Fate -- II. Dialectic. Epistemology -- Logic -- Aristotle's Categories : ontology and linguistics -- The hierarchy of sciences -- III. Ethics. The goal : virtue and the ideal life -- Ethical virtue and the management of the passions -- Politics -- The system of the Chaldaean oracles.
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'Middle' Platonism has some claim to be the single most influential philosophical movement of the last two thousand years, as the common background to 'Neoplatonism' and the early development of Christian theology. This book breaks with the tradition of considering it primarily in terms of its sources, instead putting its contemporary philosophical engagements front and centre to reconstruct its philosophical motivations and activity across the full range of its interests. The volume explores the thinkers at the heart of Platonist philosophy in this period and includes a comprehensive selection of primary sources, a significant number of which appear in English translation for the first time, along with dedicated guides to the questions that have been, and might be, asked about the movement. The result is a tool which will help to bring the study of Middle Platonism into mainstream discussions of ancient philosophy.
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Church history-- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Sources.
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Platonists, Sources.
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Christianisme.
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Church history-- Primitive and early church.
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Church history.
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Église-- 30-600 (Église primitive)-- Sources.
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Platonisme-- Sources.
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Platonists.
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184
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B517.B679 2018
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