From Plato to Platonism.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Plato and His Readers -- 1. Was Plato a Platonist? -- Plato and Platonism -- Ur-Platonism -- From Plato to Platonism -- 2. Socrates and Platonism -- The 'Socratic Problem' -- Gregory Vlastos -- Terry Penner -- Christopher Rowe -- 3. Reading the Dialogues Platonically -- Plato and Developmentalism -- Plato the Artist, Plato the Philosopher -- Plato's Self-Testimony -- 4. Aristotle on Plato and Platonism -- Aristotle and Ur-Platonism -- Aristotle's Testimony on the Mathematization of Forms -- Aristotle's Criticism of the Mathematization of Forms -- Part 2. The Continuing Creation of Platonism -- 5. The Old Academy -- Speusippus and First Principles -- Speusippean Knowledge -- Xenocrates -- 6. The Academic Skeptics -- What Is Academic Skepticism? -- Skepticism, Rationalism, and Platonism -- 7. Platonism in the 'Middle' -- Antiochus of Ascalon -- Plutarch of Chaeronea -- Alcinous -- 8. Numenius of Apamea -- On the Good -- Part 3. Plotinus: "Exegete of the Platonic Revelation" -- 9. Platonism as a System -- The First Principle of All -- Intellect -- Soul -- Matter -- 10. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (1) -- Matter in the Platonic System -- Substance and Becoming -- Categories in the Intelligible World -- The One and the Indefinite Dyad -- The Good Is Eros -- 11. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (2) -- Human and Person -- Assimilation to the Divine -- Moral Responsibility -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index Locorum.

Lloyd P. Gerson argues that Plato was a Platonist and challenges fundamental assumptions about how Plato's teachings have come to be understood.

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