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Post-Hellenistic Philosophy

A Study in Its Development from the Stoics to Origen

  • Hardback
  • 252 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

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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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  • Author

    George Boys-stones (professor Of Classics And Philosophy, Professor Of Classics And Philosophy, University Of Toronto)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    March 2001

  • Weight

    473g

  • Page Count

    252

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198152644

  • ISBN-10

    0198152647

  • Eden Code

    1225515

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