Husserl beruft sich immer wieder programmatisch auf Platon als den Gründervater der europäischen Philosophie, arbeitet jedoch die Bezüge der Phänomenologie zum Platonismus nie auf - obwohl er die "historische Rückbesinnung" auf die Urstiftung seines Denkens als wesentlichen Best…
This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others. Beginning with accounts of both approaches, Brown defends Pl…
The Middle Platonists consists of detailed chapters on figures of the period, outlining the Life and Works, Philosophy and conclusion for each Platonist. ‘Dillon's excellent work is the first book-length study in any language of the whole development of Platonism in the 300 year…
The middle platonists: 80 B.C. to A.D. 220
"In the first half of this book, Hugh S. Chandler updates the theory that rational creatures should be governed by "self love" and concludes that creatures that operate in this way should sometimes be quite nasty. Nevertheless, such creatures can be just as "rational" and "reaso…
Platonic legacies
by Sallis, John
fromSUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
Platonism and its Christian heritage
"In The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus's Mysticism, Zeke Mazur offers a radical reconceptualization of Plotinus with reference to Gnostic thought and praxis. A crucial element in the thought of the third-century CE philosopher Plotinus-his conception of mystical unio…
The Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard von Bingen's twelfth-century music-drama, is one of the first known examples of a large-scale composition by a named composer in the Western canon. Not only does the Ordo's expansive duration set it apart from its precursors, but also its complex ima…
