{"product_id":"from-plato-to-platonism-paperback-softback-9781501710636","title":"From Plato to Platonism (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501710636","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrom Plato to Platonism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLloyd P. Gerson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501710636\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.1 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e..the book is an important achievement. It is full of precious observations and suggestions. Even if someone is not fully convinced by the application of such an historical set of criteria he will find the book a highly rewarding reading.\u003c\/p\u003e - Péter Lautner (The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition) \u003cp\u003eGerson's book is a highly valuable, well-written contribution to Plato nism research. It persuasively makes a case for understanding Plato's philosophy as a coherent system that has an intricate and meaningful relation to later Platonistic philosophical positions. From this point, Plato appears as a Platonist indeed.\u003c\/p\u003e - Claas Lattman (CLASSICAL JOURNAL)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Gerson's book is a highly valuable, well-written contribution to Platonism research. It persuasively makes a case for understanding Plato's philosophy as a coherent system that has an intricate and meaningful relation to later Platonistic philosophical positions. From this point, Plato appears as a Platonist indeed.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e — Claas Lattman ― \u003ci\u003eCLASSICAL JOURNAL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWas Plato a Platonist?\u003c\/b\u003e 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. In \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Plato to Platonism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Lloyd P. Gerson argues that the ancients are correct in their assessment. He arrives at this conclusion in an especially ingenious manner, challenging fundamental assumptions about how Plato’s teachings have come to be understood. 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 version of \"anti-naturalism.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGerson contends that the philosophical position of Plato-Plato’s own Platonism, so to speak-was produced out of a matrix he calls \"Ur-Platonism.\" According to Gerson, Ur-Platonism is the conjunction of five \"antis\" that in total arrive at anti-naturalism: anti-nominalism, anti-mechanism, anti-materialism, anti-relativism, and anti-skepticism. Plato’s Platonism is an attempt to construct the most consistent and defensible positive system uniting the five \"antis.\" It is also the system that all later Platonists throughout Antiquity attributed to Plato when countering attacks from critics including Peripatetics, Stoics, and Sceptics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn conclusion, Gerson shows that Late Antique philosophers such as Proclus were right in regarding Plotinus as \"the great exegete of the Platonic revelation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Plato and His Readers\u003cbr\u003e 1. Was Plato a Platonist?\u003cbr\u003e Plato and Platonism\u003cbr\u003e Ur-Platonism\u003cbr\u003e From Plato to Platonism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Socrates and Platonism\u003cbr\u003e The 'Socratic Problem'\u003cbr\u003e Gregory Vlastos\u003cbr\u003e Terry Penner\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Rowe\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reading the Dialogues Platonically\u003cbr\u003e Plato and Developmentalism\u003cbr\u003e Plato the Artist, Plato the Philosopher\u003cbr\u003e Plato's Self-Testimony\u003cbr\u003e 4. Aristotle on Plato and Platonism\u003cbr\u003e Aristotle and Ur-Platonism\u003cbr\u003e Aristotle's Testimony on the Mathematization of Forms\u003cbr\u003e Aristotle's Criticism of the Mathematization of Forms\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. The Continuing Creation of Platonism\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Old Academy\u003cbr\u003e Speusippus and First Principles\u003cbr\u003e Speusippean Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e Xenocrates\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Academic Skeptics\u003cbr\u003e What Is Academic Skepticism?\u003cbr\u003e Skepticism, Rationalism, and Platonism\u003cbr\u003e 7. Platonism in the 'Middle'\u003cbr\u003e Antiochus of Ascalon\u003cbr\u003e Plutarch of Chaeronea\u003cbr\u003e Alcinous\u003cbr\u003e 8. Numenius of Apamea\u003cbr\u003e On the Good\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Plotinus: \"Exegete of the Platonic Revelation\"\u003cbr\u003e 9. Platonism as a System\u003cbr\u003e The First Principle of All\u003cbr\u003e Intellect\u003cbr\u003e Soul\u003cbr\u003e Matter\u003cbr\u003e 10. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (1)\u003cbr\u003e Matter in the Platonic System\u003cbr\u003e Substance and Becoming\u003cbr\u003e Categories in the Intelligible World\u003cbr\u003e The One and the Indefinite Dyad\u003cbr\u003e The Good Is Eros\u003cbr\u003e 11. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (2)\u003cbr\u003e Human and Person\u003cbr\u003e Assimilation to the Divine\u003cbr\u003e Moral Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656054665496,"sku":"9781501710636","price":22.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/from-plato-to-platonism-paperback-softback-9781501710636","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}