Boethus' Psychology and the Neoplatonists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11585208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H B Gottschalk (1LEEDS University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1-3 |
| Pages | 243-257 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phronesis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8868 • E-ISSN: 1568-5284 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156852886x00146 |
| OpenAlex | W1977274869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Three writers of late antiquity, all of them Neoplatonists, refer to the psychological doctrine of a certain Boethus. Several philosophers of that name are known, and the fragments have been variously assigned to the Stoic, Boethus of Sidon, who lived in the middle of the second century BC, and his Peripatetic namesake, active about a century later. ' The purpose of this article is to see what exactly we can learn about this thinker from the extant fragments and then to determine which of the various Boethi he is most likely to have been. Our richest source is Porphyry, who wrote a work in five2 books entitled Against Boethus on the soul (IfIQos Bo6rov nErr Vvxfi;), from which nine quotations have been preserved by Eusebius.3 The first four fragments come from the first book of Pophyry's work (ap. Euseb. PE 11.28, II
Ancient philosophy · Art · Doctrine · Epistemology · Extant taxon · Literature · Middle Ages · Soul · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |