03588nam 2200625 450 991081588900332120200520144314.00-8014-6917-10-8014-6918-X10.7591/9780801469183(CKB)3710000000072589(OCoLC)865565828(CaPaEBR)ebrary10812578(SSID)ssj0001059746(PQKBManifestationID)11593712(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059746(PQKBWorkID)11086425(PQKB)11043713(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510089(MdBmJHUP)muse28789(DE-B1597)478543(OCoLC)979622663(DE-B1597)9780801469183(Au-PeEL)EBL3138548(CaPaEBR)ebr10812578(CaONFJC)MIL683590(MiAaPQ)EBC3138548(EXLCZ)99371000000007258920130315d2013 uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtccrFrom Plato to Platonism /Lloyd P. GersonIthaca :Cornell University Press,2013.1 online resource (358 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-52308-8 0-8014-5241-4 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.part 1. Plato and his readers -- part 2. The continuing creation of Platonism -- part 3. Plotinus : "exegete of the Platonic revelation".Was Plato a Platonist? 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 From Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. Gerson argues that the ancients were 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."Gerson 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. In conclusion, Gerson shows that Late Antique philosophers such as Proclus were right in regarding Plotinus as "the great exegete of the Platonic revelation."PlatonistsPlatonists.184CD 3063rvkGerson Lloyd P303020MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815889003321From Plato to Platonism1384416UNINA