Author: IamblichusPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Iamblichus' Exhortation to the Study of Philosophy
Author: IamblichusIamblichus' Exhortation to the Study of Philosophy ; Fragments of Iamblichus
Author: Iamblichus's Exhortation to the Study of Philosophy. -- Fragments of Iamblichus. -- Excerpts from the Commentary of Proclus on the Chaldean Oracles. -- Plotinus' Diverse Cogitations
Author: IamblichusPublisher:
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Category : Neoplatonism
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Exhortation to the Study of Philosophy. Fragments of Iamblichus
Author: IamblichusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Iamblichus' Exhortation to the Study of Philosophy ; Fragments of Iamblichus. Excerpts from the Commentary of Proclus on the Chaldean Oracles. Plotinus' Diverse Cogitations. To which are Added The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
Author: Jamblichus (de Chalcis.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Iamblichus: Exhortation to Philosophy
Author: IamblichusPublisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781472584168
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Protrepticus of Iamblichus (about AD 250-before 325), priestly reformer of Neoplatonism and commentator on Aristotle, is an exhortation to philosophy. The work combines the influences of Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoras, and is important both for revelations about these sources and for understanding Iamblichus' philosophy in its own right. Whilst a significant portion draws on Aristotle's earlier Protrepticus by excerpting elements of his lost text, other sections look to Plato and to Pythagoras'Golden Verses and proverbs. By studying how Iamblichus presents passages from Plato, the translators are able to distinguish the verbatim citations from Aristotle, thus uncovering fragments of an otherwise lost Aristotelian work. The nature of Iamblichus' enterprise is also demonstrated, which is to assemble excerpted portions from his chosen sources into intellectually satisfying parcels with headnotes expressing what the reader should think about them. It is therefore possible to understand more about how Iamblichus sees Aristotle and how he conceives of Aristotle's place in the Platonic tradition and in the wider world of classical Greek philosophy. This English translation is the latest volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and makes this philosophical work accessible to a modern readership. The translation is accompanied by an introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography, glossary of translated terms and a subject index.
Iamblichis' Exhortation to the Study of Philosophy
Author: IamblichusIamblichus' Exhortation to the Study of Philosophy
Author: IamblichusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Iamblichus, the Exhortation to Philosophy
Author: IamblichusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Iamblichus: On the General Science of Mathematics
Author: John DillonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350127671
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
On the General Science of Mathematics is the third of four surviving works out of ten by Iamblichus (c. 245 CE–early 320s) on the Pythagoreans. He thought the Pythagoreans had treated mathematics as essential for drawing the human soul upwards to higher realms described by Plato, and downwards to understand the physical cosmos, the products of arts and crafts and the order required for an ethical life. His Pythagorean treatises use edited quotation to re-tell the history of philosophy, presenting Plato and Aristotle as passing on the ideas invented by Pythagoras and his early followers. Although his quotations tend to come instead from Plato and later Pythagoreanising Platonists, this re-interpretation had a huge impact on the Neoplatonist commentators in Athens. Iamblichus' cleverness, if not to the same extent his re-interpretation, was appreciated by the commentators in Alexandria.