Post-Hellenistic Philosophy
A Study of Its Development from the Stoics to Origen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10696310 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R W Sharples (0000-0001-6892-5059), George Boys‐Stones |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 573 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Post-Hellenistic philosophy: A study of its development from the Stoics to Origen, G R Boys-Stones, 2001 |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1556429 |
| OpenAlex | W1593722254 |
| Language | EN |
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. The significance of this development is highlighted through parallel studies of the Hellenistic debate over the status of Jewish culture; and of the philosophical beginnings of Christianity, where the notions of 'orthodoxy' and 'heresy' in particular are shown to be tools in the construction of a unified history of Christian philosophy stretching back to primitive antiquity
Ancient philosophy · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Early Christianity · Eastern philosophy · Epicureanism · Epistemology · Heresy · Judaism · Literature · Mythology · Orthodoxy · Platonism · Stoicism · Theology · Western philosophy · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza
Religious Intercrossing in Late Antique Eurasia
Bears, Gates, and Solstices
Historical Approaches to Epistemic Authority
The Influence of Eusebius’ Chronicle on the Apologetic Treatises of Cyril of Alexandria and Augustine of Hippo
Galen, Divination and the Status of Medicine
Varro’s Divine Antiquities
Augustine and the Trinity
The Demiurge in Ancient Thought
Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics
Christianity and Roman Society
The intellectual debate between Christians and pagans
Apuleius' Platonism
Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion
Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs in its Intellectual Context
Communicating Cynicism
Stoic linguistics, Plato's Cratylus , and Augustine's De dialectica
What is Platonism?
Lucretius on what language is not
Common sense
Philosophical Life in Cicero's Letters
Varro's anti-analogist
Ancient Philosophical Poetics
Providence and Religion in Middle Platonism
Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition
Epicurus and his predecessors on the origin of language
Aristotelianism in the First Century BCE
The Stoics on the origin of language and the foundations of etymology
Between Jews and Heretics
Al-Ghazālī on the Origins of Ethics
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |