Author : John Douglas Turner
Release : 2011
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Book Synopsis Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage: Parmenides interpretation from Plotinus to Damascius by : John Douglas Turner
Download or read book Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage: Parmenides interpretation from Plotinus to Damascius written by John Douglas Turner. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of Volume 1 is the dissolution of firm boundaries for thinking about the tradition of Parmenides interpretation from the Old Academy through Middle Platonism and Gnosticism. The volume suggests a radically different interpretation of the history of thought from Plato to Proclus than is customary by arguing against Proclus s generally accepted view that there was no metaphysical interpretation of the Parmenides before Plotinus in the third century C.E.