From Plato to Platonism Gerson Lloyd P.Paperback
From Plato to Platonism Gerson Lloyd P.Paperback Was Plato a Platonist? In From Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative,…
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From Plato to Platonism Gerson Lloyd P.Paperback
Was Plato a Platonist? In From Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato's own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries.
He arrives at this conclusion in an especially ingenious manner, challenging fundamental assumptions about how Plato's teachings have come to be understood. Gerson argues that the ancients were correct in their assessment. Through deft readings of the philosophical principles found in Plato's dialogues and in the Platonic tradition beginning with Aristotle, he shows that Platonism, broadly conceived, is the polar opposite of naturalism and that the history of philosophy from Plato until the seventeenth century was the history of various efforts to find the most consistent and complete
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