Post-Hellenistic Philosophy : A Study of its Development from the Stoics to Origen
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0198857322
ISBN-13
9780198857327
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 9th, 2020
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
324 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.90 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500Philosophy of religionHistory of religionHistory of ideas
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This study argues that a revolution in the approach to philosophy took place during the first centuries of our era. Covering topics in Stoicism, Hellenistic antisemitism and Jewish apologetic, Platonism, and early Christian philosophy, it examines a trend to seek for the truth in antiquity which shaped the future course of Western thought.
This book traces, for the first time, a revolution in philosophy which took place during the early centuries of our era. It reconstructs the philosophical basis of the Stoics'' theory that fragments of an ancient and divine wisdom could be reconstructed from mythological traditions, and shows that Platonism was founded on an argument that Plato had himself achieved a full reconstruction of this wisdom, and that subsequent philosophies had only regressed once again in their attempts to ''improve'' on his achievement. The significance of this development is highlighted through parallel studies of the Hellenistic debate over the status of Jewish culture; and of the philosophical beginnings of Christianity, where the notions of ''orthodoxy'' and ''heresy'' in particular are shown to be tools in the construction of a unified history of Christian philosophy stretching back to primitive antiquity.
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