LEADER 03563nam 2200613 450 001 9910464673803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6918-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801469183 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072589 035 $a(OCoLC)865565828 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10812578 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001059746 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11593712 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059746 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11086425 035 $a(PQKB)11043713 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510089 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138548 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28789 035 $a(DE-B1597)478543 035 $a(OCoLC)979622663 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801469183 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138548 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10812578 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683590 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072589 100 $a20130315d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom Plato to Platonism /$fLloyd P. Gerson 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (358 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-52308-8 311 $a0-8014-5241-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $apart 1. Plato and his readers -- part 2. The continuing creation of Platonism -- part 3. Plotinus : "exegete of the Platonic revelation". 330 $aWas 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." 606 $aPlatonists 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPlatonists. 676 $a184 700 $aGerson$b Lloyd P$0303020 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464673803321 996 $aFrom Plato to Platonism$91384416 997 $aUNINA