Platonic Inquiries. Selected Papers from the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies

C. D'AMICO; JOHN FINAMORE; NATALIA STROK

The Prometheus Trust

Lugar: Westbury; Año: 2017 p. 353

978 1 898910 855

The papers in this volume were originally given at the 13th annual conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from June 15th through 19th in 2015. The papers cover a multitude of topics. The editors have placed them in chronological order by ancient author and topic. The papers in this volume cover an expanse of roughly 2,300 years from the 4th Century B.C.E. to the 20th Century C.E. Such is the extent of Platonic influence over time and geographical space. The basic concepts of Platonism include epistemological issues concerning the extent of and limits to human knowing, ethical issues concerning the right course of action and how we can recognize it, political issues concerning the right kind of rule, and psychological theories about the immortality of the soul. These ideas, which exercised the minds of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, continued to affect philosophies in the Roman Empire, the Middle East, Medieval Christendom, Renaissance Europe, and the modern world.