From Stoicism to Platonism
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From Stoicism to Platonism

The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE–100 CE

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From Stoicism to Platonism

The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE–100 CE

About this book

From Stoicism to Platonism describes the change in philosophy from around 100 BCE, when monistic Stoicism was the strongest dogmatic school in philosophy, to around 100 CE, when dualistic Platonism began to gain the upper hand - with huge consequences for all later Western philosophy and for Christianity. It is distinguished by querying traditional categories like 'eclecticism' and 'harmonization' as means of describing the period. Instead, it highlights different strategies of 'appropriation' of one school's doctrines by philosophers from the other school, with all philosophers being highly conscious of their own identity. The book also sets out to break down the traditional boundaries between, on the one hand, the study of Greco-Roman philosophy in the period and, on the other hand, that of contemporary Hellenistic Jewish and early Christian writings with a philosophical profile. In these ways, the book opens up an immensely fruitful period in the history of philosophy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Chapter 1 Introduction: A Historiographical Essay
  9. Chapter 2 Plato, Chrysippus and Posidonius’ Theory of Affective Movements
  10. Chapter 3 Cicero’s Plato
  11. Chapter 4 Are We Nearly There Yet? Eudorus on Aristotle’s Categories
  12. Chapter 5 Stoicism and Platonism in ‘Arius Didymus’
  13. Chapter 6 Oikeiōsis in Stoicism, Antiochus and Arius Didymus
  14. Chapter 7 The Platonist Appropriation of Stoic Epistemology
  15. Chapter 8 “Becoming like God” in Platonism and Stoicism
  16. Chapter 9 From Stoicism to Platonism: The Difficult Case of Philo of Alexandria’s De Providentia I
  17. Chapter 10 From Cicero to Philo of Alexandria: Ascending and Descending Axes in the Interpretation of Platonism and Stoicism
  18. Chapter 11 The Love of Wisdom: Middle Platonism and Stoicism in the Wisdom of Solomon
  19. Chapter 12 Seneca and Epictetus on Body, Mind and Dualism
  20. Chapter 13 The Dilemma of Paul’s Physics: Features Stoic-Platonist or Platonist-Stoic?
  21. Chapter 14 The Legacy of Musonius Rufus
  22. Chapter 15 Stoic and Platonic Reflections on Naming in Early Christian Circles: Or, What’s in a Name?
  23. Chapter 16 Is Plutarch Really Hostile to the Stoics?
  24. Chapter 17 Peripatetic Appropriations of Oikeiōsis:: Alexander, Mantissa Chapter 17
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index Locorum
  27. General Index