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Essays on Plato’s Epistemology

By: Franco Trabattoni

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Essays on Plato’s Epistemology

By: Franco Trabattoni

An Innovating approach to Plato’s philosophy Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato’s Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato’s philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato’s philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thought. Moreover, the two sides are often associated, respectively, with a metaphysical and an anti-metaphysical approach. This book, continuing a line of thought that is nowadays strongly present in the secondary literature – and also followed by the author in over thirty years of research –, maintains that a third way of thinking is required. Against the widespread view that an anti-dogmatic philosophy must go together with an anti-metaphysical stance, Trabattoni shows that for Plato, on the contrary, a sober and reasonable assessment of both the powers and limits of human reason relies on a proper metaphysical outlook.

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9462700591

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From Death to Life: Key Themes in Plato's Phaedo

By: Franco Trabattoni

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From Death to Life: Key Themes in Plato's Phaedo

By: Franco Trabattoni

This book addresses a range of highly debated problems among scholars of Plato’s Phaedo and provides an overall interpretation of the dialogue.

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The Philosophy of the Few against the Christians

An Inquiry into the Textual Transmission of Porphyry’s Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles

By: Pier Franco Beatrice

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The Philosophy of the Few against the Christians

An Inquiry into the Textual Transmission of Porphyry’s Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles

By: Pier Franco Beatrice

This book gives us a new perspective on the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles by Porphyry of Tyre (ca. 232/305 CE), demonstrating that much of what we thought we knew about this work and its fragments is mistaken. Here, for the first time, the attempt is made at reconstructing the original text by following the vicissitudes of its reception and transmission from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance up to modern scholarship. The extensive and painstaking study of the surviving fragments leads to the radically innovative conclusion that this encyclopedic treatise, written by Porphyry in the last decades of the 3rd century CE, consisted of fifteen books organized in various sections. After an initial discussion of the nature of theurgy and of its subordinate role with respect to philosophy, Porphyry describes the entire history of Greek philosophy from Homer up to his own teacher Plotinus, to then go on to present “introductions” to the seven encyclical disciplines whose study is required for the comprehension of theosophy, that is, the esoteric speculation on the three parts of philosophy: anthropology-ethics, physics, and metaphysics-theology. By harmonizing the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and the Chaldean Oracles, Porphyry intends to present the complete and definitive philosophic system, with the aim of showing the universal way for the liberation of the souls of initiates and of contextually fighting the final battle of the Greco-Roman civilization against Christianity.

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Essays on Plato’s Epistemology

By: Franco Trabattoni

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Essays on Plato’s Epistemology

Essays on Plato’s Epistemology

From Death to Life: Key Themes in Plato's Phaedo

From Death to Life: Key Themes in Plato's Phaedo

The Philosophy of the Few against the Christians

The Philosophy of the Few against the Christians

Essays on Plato’s Epistemology

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