Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study in Its Development from the Stoics to Origen

ISBN-13: 9780198152644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 256 str.

G. R. Boys-Stones

Opis

This book traces, for the first time, a revolution in philosophy which took place during the early centuries of our era. It reconstructs the philosophical basis of the Stoics' theory that fragments of an ancient and divine wisdom could be reconstructed from mythological traditions, and shows that Platonism was founded on an argument that Plato had himself achieved a full reconstruction of this wisdom, and that subsequent philosophies had only regressed once again in their attempts to "improve" on his achievement.

Recenzje

Boys-Stones paints a far more exciting picture of the period than anyone else in this highly interesting and at times controversial book.

O autorze

Lecturer in Classics at the University of Durham.