The Neoplatonic Socrates

The Neoplatonic Socrates / edited by Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant.

The Neoplatonic Socrates explores the portrait of the great philosopher as developed by the Platonists in the first six centuries C.E. and examines Neoplatonic attitudes toward themes relevant to the contemporary studies of Socrates.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Layne, Danielle A. (Editor), Tarrant, Harold (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Socrates.
Socrates
Neoplatonism.
Neo-Platonism.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Neoplatonism
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Table of Contents:
  • Socratic love in neoplatonism / Geert Roskam
  • Plutarch and Apuleius on Socrates's Daimonion / John F. Finamore
  • The Daimonion of Socrates: daimones and divination in neoplatonism / Crystal Addey
  • Socrates in the neoplatonic psychology of Hermias / Christina-Panagiola Manolea
  • The character of Socrates and the good of dialogue form: neoplatonic hermeneutics / Danielle A. Layne
  • Hypostasizing Socrates / Michael Griffin
  • Socratic character: Proclus on the function of erotic intellect / James M. Ambury
  • The elenctic strategies of Socrates: the Alcibiades I and the commentary of Olympiodorus / François Renaud
  • Akrasia and enkrateia in Simplicius's commentary on Epictetus's Encheiridion / Marilynn Lawrence
  • The many-voiced Socrates: the neoplatonist sensitivity to Socrates' change of register / Harold Tarrant
  • Conclusion / Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant
  • Appendix: the reception of Socrates in late antiquity--authors, texts, and notable references.

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