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Title Platonic Stoicism, Stoic Platonism : the dialogue between Platonism and Stoicism in antiquity / edited by Mauro Bonazzi and Christoph Helmig
Published Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 310 pages)
Series Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 ; 39
Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 ; 39.
Contents Le débat entre platonisme et stoïcisme sur la vie scolastique : Chrysippe, la Nouvelle Académie et Antiochus / Thomas Bénatouïl -- Alcuni esempi della relazione tra l'etica stoica e Platone / Francesca Alesse -- La lecture stoïcienne du laconisme à travers le filtre de Platon / Sophie Aubert -- L'Érôs pédagogique chez Platon et les Stoïciens / Valéry Laurand -- Platonism and Stoicism in Vergil's Aeneid / John Stevens -- Eudorus' psychology and Stoic ethics / Mauro Bonazzi -- Onomastic reference in Seneca : the case of Plato and the Platonists / Teun Tieleman -- Seneca, Plato and Platonism : the case of Letter 65 / Brad Inwood -- The Stoic background to the middle Platonist discussion of Fate / Robert Sharples -- Marcus Aurelius' Meditations : how Stoic and how Platonic? / Christopher Gill -- Platonismo e teoria della conoscenza Stoica tra II e III secolo d.C. / Riccardo Chiaradonna -- Calcidius on God / Gretchen Reydams-Schils
Summary This book examines the important but largely neglected issue of the interrelation between Platonism and Stoicism in Ancient Philosophy. Several renowned specialists in the fields of Stoic and Platonic analyse the intricate mutual influences between Stoic and Platonic philosophers in the Hellenistic period, the Imperial Age, and after. Although it has been repeatedly claimed that the phenomenon addressed in this book could best be labelled eclecticism, it emerges from the various articles collected here that the situation is much more complicated. Far from being eclectics, most Stoics and Plato
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-288) and indexes
Notes In English, French, or Italian
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Subject Plato -- Influence -- Congresses
SUBJECT Plato fast
Subject Stoics -- Congresses
Platonists -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Platonists
Stoics
Platonismus
Stoa
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Bonazzi, Mauro, 1973- editor.
Helmig, Christoph, editor.
ISBN 9461660286
9789461660282