From Stoicism to Platonism: The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE–100 CE

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Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Cambridge University Press, Feb 13, 2017 - History - 399 pages
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: A Historiographical Essay -- Chapter 2 Plato, Chrysippus and Posidonius' Theory of Affective Movements -- Chapter 3 Cicero's Plato -- Chapter 4 Are We Nearly There Yet? Eudorus on Aristotle's Categories -- Chapter 5 Stoicism and Platonism in 'Arius Didymus' -- Chapter 6 Oikeiōsis in Stoicism, Antiochus and Arius Didymus -- Chapter 7 The Platonist Appropriation of Stoic Epistemology -- Chapter 8 "Becoming like God" in Platonism and Stoicism -- Chapter 9 From Stoicism to Platonism: The Difficult Case of Philo of Alexandria's De Providentia I -- Chapter 10 From Cicero to Philo of Alexandria: Ascending and Descending Axes in the Interpretation of Platonism and Stoicism -- Chapter 11 The Love of Wisdom: Middle Platonism and Stoicism in the Wisdom of Solomon -- Chapter 12 Seneca and Epictetus on Body, Mind and Dualism -- Chapter 13 The Dilemma of Paul's Physics: Features Stoic-Platonist or Platonist-Stoic? -- Chapter 14 The Legacy of Musonius Rufus -- Chapter 15 Stoic and Platonic Reflections on Naming in Early Christian Circles: Or, What's in a Name? -- Chapter 16 Is Plutarch Really Hostile to the Stoics? -- Chapter 17 Peripatetic Appropriations of Oikeiōsis:: Alexander, Mantissa Chapter 17 -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index
 

Contents

Plato Chrysippus and Posidonius Theory
27
Ciceros Plato
47
Are We Nearly There Yet? Eudorus on Aristotles Categories
67
Stoicism and Platonism in Arius Didymus
80
Oikeiōsis in Stoicism Antiochus and Arius Didymus
100
The Platonist Appropriation of Stoic Epistemology
120
Becoming like God in Platonism and Stoicism
142
The Difficult Case of Philo
159
Seneca and Epictetus on Body Mind and Dualism
214
Features StoicPlatonist
231
The Legacy of Musonius Rufus
254
Stoic and Platonic Reflections on Naming in Early
277
Is Plutarch Really Hostile to the Stoics?
296
Alexander
322
Bibliography
348
Index Locorum
373

Ascending
179
Middle Platonism and Stoicism
198

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Troels Engberg-Pedersen is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen. He has moved freely between the disciplines of classics, ancient philosophy and Christian theology (the New Testament), and has published major monographs on Aristotle's Ethics, Stoic ethics, the Apostle Paul (and Stoicism) and, most recently, the Gospel of John (and philosophy).

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