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Pages: 236
Authors: Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-27 - Publisher: BRILL

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The belief in the immortality of the soul has been described as one of the “twin pillars of Platonism” and is famously defended by Socrates in Plato’s Pha
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This study focuses on the ancient commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo by Olympiodorus and Damascius and aims to present the relevance of their challenging and valu
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Categories: History
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Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino
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"Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university studen
The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul
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Authors: Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth
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Plato's doctrine of the soul, its immaterial nature, its parts or faculties, and its fate after death (and before birth) came to have an enormous influence on t