Studies in Later Greek Philosophy and Gnosticism
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Studies in Later Greek Philosophy and Gnosticism

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Studies in Later Greek Philosophy and Gnosticism

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It is a curious fact that many of the sources for the Presocratic and Stoic philosophers are early Christian authors; similarly, one can even find an echo of Parmenides in a Gnostic treatise from Nag Hammadi. Such writers were often dependent for their knowledge on a whole chain of previous interpretations and traditions, and it is these with which Professor Mansfeld is here largely concerned. He has tried to discover what in an earlier writer - Plato, and Aristotle, of course, as well as the Early Greeks - was of interest to a later one, notably the Middle Platonists. These articles demonstrate the value of such an approach, showing how a familiarity with the later history of an idea, say in a Gnostic text, can contribute to the understanding of the idea itself; or how the study of the selection of ideas used by Philo, for instance, not only sheds light on his own projects, but also helps explain why some motifs survived and not others, and why philosophical thought took the directions it did.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040237700
Edition
0
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter I: Providence and the Destruction of the Universe in Barly Stoic Thought
  9. Chapter II: Resurrection Added: The interpretatio christiana of a Stoic Doctrine
  10. Chapter III: Techne: A New Fragment of Chrysippus
  11. Chapter IV: The Cleanthes Fragment in Cicero, De Natura Deorum II 24
  12. Chapter V: Sorne Stoics on the Soul (SVF I 136)
  13. Chapter VI: Three Notes on Albinus
  14. Chapter VII: Heraclitus, Empedocles and Others in a Middle Platonist Cento in Philo of Alexandria
  15. Chapter VIII: Heraclitus fr. B 63 D.-K.
  16. Chapter IX: On Two Fragments of Heraclitus in Clement of Alexandria
  17. Chapter X: Philosophy in the Service of Scripture: Philo's Exegetical Strategies
  18. Chapter XI: Review of: D. O'Brien, Pour interpréter Empédocle
  19. Chapter XII: Review of: P. Mastandrea, Un Neoplatonico Latino: Cornelio Labeone
  20. Chapter XIII: Alexander and the History of Neoplatonism
  21. Chapter XIV: Bad World and Demiurge: A 'Gnostic' Motif from Parmenides and Empedocles to Lucretius and Philo
  22. Chapter XV: Review of: L.J. Alderink, Creation and Salvation in Ancient Orphism
  23. Chapter XVI: Review of: D. Pesce, La Tavola di Cebete, and of J.T. Fitzgerald & J.M. White, The Tabula of Cebes
  24. Chapter XVII: Hesiod and Parmenides in Nag Hammadi
  25. Addenda et Corrigenda
  26. Index