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Defining Platonism - Essays on Plato, Middle and Neoplatonism, and Modern Platonism (Hardcover)
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Defining Platonism - Essays on Plato, Middle and Neoplatonism, and Modern Platonism (Hardcover)
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This collection of essays surveys a wide range of methods of
Platonic interpretation, ranging from the dialogues themselves, to
Middle and Neoplatonic interpretations of Plato’s writings, to
modern uses of Platonism. As a philosophical movement, Platonism is
broadly conceived, covering schools and philosophers beginning with
Plato and his immediate followers and extending through
contemporary philosophers. The history of Platonism begins, of
course, with Plato himself. But his adoption of the dialogue style
and his active engagement with students in his Academy, where he
certainly used dialectic techniques, led almost immediately to
questioning what Plato’s doctrines actually were. His student
Aristotle raised questions of interpretations and invoked esoteric
teachings not present in the written works. The earliest heads of
the Academy struggled with Plato’s texts as well, creating rival
interpretations. These early discussions gave rise to later ones,
and Platonism became simultaneously a dogmatic philosophy and a
source of sometimes-heated debate of what the master intended. From
its inception, Platonism was a dynamic philosophy, open to varied
interpretations on different fronts while also maintaining a common
core of beliefs. Platonism gave rise to methods of interpretation
that centered on historical, ethical, political, or metaphysical
questions engendered by Plato’s writings. The ancient
commentators reflected the teachings of their predecessors, and
with only a few schools in the Greco-Roman world, many of their
students studying under the same teachers, meant a heightened
continuity in the tradition of interpretation. This volume honors
the seventy-fifth birthday of John Dillon, the great scholar of
Platonism whose scholarship had a pivotal role in defining
Platonism as a philosophical movement in contemporary academia.
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