Product Description: Le platonisme ne se réduit pas à l'exégèse des dialogues de Platon; il se nourrit de la confrontation avec Aristote et les écoles de philosophie hellénistiques. C'est pourquoi cet ouvrage se présente comme une recherche sur les rapports entre le platonisme et les stoïciens, les épicuriens et les sceptiques à l'époque impériale...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume are all devoted to Plato's Theaetetus. In the first part, each of the three definitions of knowlege given in the dialogue are examined in turn. The second part then studies the various readings, interpretations and uses that were made of the Theaetetus throughout history, from Ancient times to Montaigne, constituting thus a rich and complex heritage...read more

Product Description: Studies of the notion of theoria and of the contemplative life have often been restricted to Plato and Aristotle. This volume shows that aspirations to contemplation and the life of the intellect survived long after the classical period, turning into topics of heated debates, powerful arguments and original applications throughout the Hellenistic, imperial, and late antique periods...read more

Product Description: The volume collects the most important papers Pierluigi Donini wrote in the last three decades with the aim of promoting a better assessment of post-hellenistic philosophy. The philosophical relevance of post-hellenistic philosophy is now widely (though not yet universally) recognized...read more

Product Description: From the 1st century BC onwards, followers of Plato began to systematize Plato's thought. These attempts went in various directions and were subjected to all kinds of philosophical influences, especially Aristotelian, Stoic, and Pythagorean...read more

Product Description: "The present volume collects the papers presented at the Colloquium on Platonismo e pitagorismo in eta imperiale, held in Villa Feltrinelli at Gargnano (Lake Garda) on 14-16 April 2005"--P. [7].