TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hadot,Ilsetraut
TI  - Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato
T2  - Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition Series
SN  - 9789004281592
AV  - B177 
U1  - 186.4 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Plato
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Philosophy, Ancient
KW  - Neoplatonism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Religious Orientation of the Alexandrian Neoplatonists from Theon of Alexandria to the Contemporaries of Ammonius, Son of Hermias -- 2. The Opinions of K. Verrycken, R. Sorabji, and L. Cardullo on the Subject of the Doctrinal Position of Ammonius, Son of Hermias, and on the Harmonizing Tendency -- 3. The Meaning of the Term 'Harmonization' and Its Historical Background -- 4. Some Characteristic and Permanent Features of the Tendency toward Harmonization of the Philosophies of Plato and Aristotle in Middle- and Neoplatonism -- The Harmonizing Tendency from Porphyry to Simplicius -- 1. Porphyry (circa 234-305/310) -- 2. Iamblichus (3rd/4th Century) -- 3. Themistius (circa 317-388) -- 3.1. The Speeches -- 3.2. The Paraphrases -- 4. Plutarch of Athens (Died 431/32) and His Student Hierocles of Alexandria (End of the 4th and 1st Half of the 5th Century) -- 5. Syrianus (1st Half of the 5th Century) -- 6. Macrobius (Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, circa 400) -- 7. Hermias of Alexandria (Student of Syrianus around 430) -- 8. Proclus (412-485) -- 9. The Harmonizing Tendency in the Introductions to the Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories of Ammonius and His School (Philoponus, Olympiodorus, David [Elias]) and in Simplicius -- 9.1. Aristotle as Plato's Successor -- 9.2. The Division of Aristotle's Works in a Neoplatonic Spirit -- 9.3. The Neoplatonic One is the End (τέλος) of Both Plato's and Aristotle's Philosophy -- 9.4. A Neoplatonic Exegetical Principle: Aristotle's Deliberate Obscurity (ἀσάφεια) in His Properly Philosophical Works -- 9.5. The Duty of the Exegete: To Bring to Light the Deep Agreement between the Philosophies of Aristotle and Plato -- 9.6. Aristotle as a Philosopher Inferior to Plato; 10. Did the Tendency of Ammonius' School to Harmonize the Philosophies of Aristotle and Plato Bear a Greater Resemblance to the Intense Tendency of Iamblichus, or to the Limited One of Syrianus-Proclus? -- 11. The Compositional Procedure of the Neoplatonic Commentaries -- 12. The Harmonizing Tendency in Damascius and His Students Simplicius and Priscianus of Lydia -- Epilogue -- Bibliographical Index
N2  - Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato by Ilsetraut Hadot deals with the Neoplatonist tendency to harmonize the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle
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