From Plato to Platonism by Gerson, Lloyd P. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface Acknowledgments Part 1. Plato and His Readers

1. Was Plato a Platonist?

Plato and Platonism Ur-Platonism From Plato to Platonism

2. Socrates and Platonism

The ‘Socratic Problem’ Gregory Vlastos Terry Penner Christopher Rowe

3. Reading the Dialogues Platonically

Plato and Developmentalism Plato the Artist, Plato the Philosopher Plato’s Self-Testimony

4. Aristotle on Plato and Platonism

Aristotle and Ur-Platonism Aristotle’s Testimony on the Mathematization of Forms Aristotle’s Criticism of the Mathematicization of Forms

Part 2. The Continuing Creation of Platonism

5. The Old Academy

Speusippus and First Principles Speusippean Knowledge Xenocrates

6. The Academic Skeptics

What Is Academic Skepticism? Skepticism, Rationalism, and Platonism

7. Platonism in the ‘Middle’

Antiochus of Ascalon Plutarch of Chaeronea Alcinous

8. Numenius of Apamea

On the Good

Part 3. Plotinus: “Exegete of the Platonic Revelation”

9. Platonism as a System

The First Principle of All Intellect Soul Matter

10. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (1)

Matter in the Platonic System Substance and Becoming Categories in the Intelligible World The One and the Indefinite Dyad The Good Is Eros

11. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (2)

Human and Person Assimilation to the Divine Moral Responsibility

Conclusion Bibliography

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