Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism Studies on the Ancient Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo.

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism Studies on the Ancient Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo.

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 Phaedo . The ancient commentaries on the dialogue by Olympiodorus and Damascius offer a unique perspective on the reception of this be...

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Main Author: Gertz, Sebastian Ramon Philipp.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 12.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004222823.

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Plato. > Phaedo.
Death in literature.
Immortality (Philosophy)
Neoplatonism.

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505 0 0 |t Preliminary Material /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t Introduction /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t I. Olympiodorus On Suicide /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t II. Politics And Purification In Socrates' Second Defence (Phd. 63b-69e) /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t III. Syrianus And Damascius: Two Interpretations Of The Argument From Opposites In Plato's Phaedo (Phd. 69e-72d) /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t IV. Memory, Forgetfulness And Recollection In The Commentaries On Plato's Phaedo /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t V. The Affinity Argument In Plato's Phaedo /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t VI. The Final Argument In Plato's Phaedo /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t VII. After Death: The Phaedo Myth And Its Neoplatonic Interpreters /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t General Conclusions /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t Bibliography /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t Index rerum /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t Index nominum veterum et recentiorum /  |r S. R. P. Gertz --   |t Index locorum potiorum /  |r S. R. P. Gertz. 
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