Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage: Parmenides interpretation from Plotinus to Damascius
Author | : John Douglas Turner |
Publisher | : Brill Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789004169302 |
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The theme of Volume 1 is the dissolution of firm boundaries for thinking about the tradition of Parmenides interpretation from the Old Academy through Middle Platonism and Gnosticism. The volume suggests a radically different interpretation of the history of thought from Plato to Proclus than is customary by arguing against Proclus s generally accepted view that there was no metaphysical interpretation of the Parmenides before Plotinus in the third century C.E.