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The Posthumous Life of Plato

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Authors:
  1. František Novotný
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  1. Ludvík Svoboda
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  2. J. L. Barton

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-16
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  2. Antiquity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Plato’s First Successors

      • František Novotný
      Pages 19-25

    3. Aristotle and the Older Peripatetics

      • František Novotný
      Pages 26-39

    4. New schools: Zeno, Epicurus, Pyrrho

      • František Novotný
      Pages 40-47

    5. The Academy as the School of Uncertainty

      • František Novotný
      Pages 48-51

    6. Back to Certainty

      • František Novotný
      Pages 52-58

    7. In Rome. Cicero

      • František Novotný
      Pages 59-73

    8. Contacts with the Old Testament

      • František Novotný
      Pages 74-78

    9. Across the Boundaries of the Schools

      • František Novotný
      Pages 79-96

    10. Before Plotinus

      • František Novotný
      Pages 97-121

    11. First Contacts with Christianity

      • František Novotný
      Pages 122-150

    12. Plotinus and the Neo-Platonists

      • František Novotný
      Pages 151-176

    13. The Christian Fathers

      • František Novotný
      Pages 177-218

    14. Ancient Laudatory and Calumnious Legends on Plato

      • František Novotný
      Pages 219-235

    15. Interpretation, Criticism, Polemics

      • František Novotný
      Pages 236-261

    16. Other Responses and Effects

      • František Novotný
      Pages 262-275

  3. The Middle Ages and the New Age

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277
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    2. Entry into the Middle Ages in the East

      • František Novotný
      Pages 279-299

    3. The West before the Renaissance

      • František Novotný
      Pages 300-326
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About this book

Plato's earthly life ended in the year 347 B. C. At the same time, however, began his posthumous life - a life of great influence and fame leaving its mark on aU eras of the history of European learning -lasting until present times. Plato's philosophy has taken root earlier or later in innumerable souls of others, it has matured and given birth to new ideas whose proliferation further dissemi­ nated the vital force of the original thoughts. It happened sometimes, of course, that by various interpretations different and sometimes altogether contradictory thoughts were deduced from one and the same Platonic doctrine: this possibility is also characteristic of Plato's genius. Even though in the history of Platonism there were times less active and creative, the continuity of its tradition has never been completely interrupted and where there was no growth and progress, at least that what had been once accepted has been kept alive. When enquiring into Plato's influence on the development of learning, we shall above all consider the individual approach of various personalities to Plato's philosophy, personal Platonism, which at its best concerns itself with the literary heritage of Plato and though accessible was not always much sought for.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oxon, UK

    J. L. Barton

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Posthumous Life of Plato

  • Authors: František Novotný

  • Editors: Ludvík Svoboda, J. L. Barton

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9704-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: František Novotný — Ludvík Svoboda 1977

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-2060-6Due: 31 January 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-9706-6Published: 21 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9704-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 667

  • Topics: Classical Philosophy, History, general

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