From Stoicism to Platonism : the development of philosophy, 100 BCE-100 CE / edited by Troels Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engberg-Pedersen, Troels, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Stoics.

Platonists.

Physical Description:

x, 399 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"From Stoicism to Platonism describes the change in philosophy from around 100 BCE, when monistic Stoicism was the strongest dogmatic school in philosophy, to around 100 CE, when dualistic Platonism began to gain the upper hand - with huge consequences for all later Western philosophy and for Christianity. It is distinguished by querying traditional categories like 'eclecticism' and 'harmonization' as means of describing the period. Instead, it highlights different strategies of 'appropriation' of one school's doctrines by philosophers from the other school, with all philosophers being highly conscious of their own identity. The book also sets out to break down the traditional boundaries between, on the one hand, the study of Greco-Roman philosophy in the period and, on the other hand, that of contemporary Hellenistic Jewish and early Christian writings with a philosophical profile. In these ways, the book opens up an immensely fruitful period in the history of philosophy."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: A Historiographical Essay / Troels Engberg-Pedersen

2. Plato, Chrysippus and Posidonius' Theory of Affective Movements / A. G. Long

3. Cicero's Plato / Malcolm Schofield

4. Are We Nearly There Yet? Eudorus on Aristotle's Categories / George Boys-Stones

5. Stoicism and Platonism in `Arius Didymus' / Myrto Hatzimichali

6. Oikeiosis in Stoicism, Antiochus and Arius Didymus / Christopher Gill

7. The Platonist Appropriation of Stoic Epistemology / Mauro Bonazzi

8. "Becoming like God" in Platonism and Stoicism / Gretchen Reydams-Schils

9. From Stoicism to Platonism: The Difficult Case of Philo of Alexandria's De Providentia I / David T. Runia

10. From Cicero to Philo of Alexandria: Ascending and Descending Axes in the Interpretation of Platonism and Stoicism / Carlos Levy

11. The Love of Wisdom: Middle Platonism and Stoicism in the Wisdom of Solomon / Gregory E. Sterling

12. Seneca and Epictetus on Body, Mind and Dualism / A. A. Long

13. The Dilemma of Paul's Physics: Features Stoic-Platonist or Platonist-Stoic? / Stanley Stowers

14. The Legacy of Musonius Rufus / Brad Inwood

15. Stoic and Platonic Reflections on Naming in Early Christian Circles: Or, What's in a Name? / Harold W. Attridge

16. Is Plutarch Really Hostile to the Stoics? / Jan Opsomer

17. Peripatetic Appropriations of Oikeiosis: Alexander, Mantissa Chapter 17 / Charles Brittain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781107166196

1107166195

OCLC:

959262301