This book traces, for the first time, a revolution in philosophy
which took place during the early centuries of our era. It
reconstructs the philosophical basis of the Stoics' theory that
fragments of an ancient and divine wisdom could be reconstructed
from mythological traditions, and shows that Platonism was founded
on an argument that Plato had himself achieved a full
reconstruction of this wisdom, and that subsequent philosophies had
only regressed once again in their attempts to 'improve' on his
achievement. The significance of this development is highlighted
through parallel studies of the Hellenistic debate over the status
of Jewish culture; and of the philosophical beginnings of
Christianity, where the notions of 'orthodoxy' and 'heresy' in
particular are shown to be tools in the construction of a unified
history of Christian philosophy stretching back to primitive
antiquity.
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