Aristotle and Other Platonists

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6547208
AutoresLloyd P Gerson (0000-0001-7406-8022, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Páginas348
Fecha de publicación2017-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaAristotle and Other Platonists (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/9781501716966
OpenAlexW1537477618
Open LibraryOL33575981M
ISBN9781501716966
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDyXMzDwAAQBAJ
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas44

versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposition to Plato's. But it was not always thus.-from the Introduction In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity. He aims to show that the twentieth-century view that Aristotle started out as a Platonist and ended up as an anti-Platonist is seriously flawed. Gerson examines the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle based on their principle of harmony. In considering ancient studies of Aristotle's Categories, Physics, De Anima, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics, the author shows how the principle of harmony allows us to understand numerous texts that otherwise appear intractable. Gerson also explains how these esoteric treatises can be seen not to conflict with the early exoteric and admittedly Platonic dialogues of Aristotle. Aristotle and Other Platonists concludes with an assessment of some of the philosophical results of acknowledging harmony

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