Title | The Parmenides of Plato and the Origin of the Neoplatonic 'One' |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1928 |
Journal | Classical Quarterly |
Volume | 22 |
Issue | 3/4 (Jul. - Oct., 1928), |
Pages | 129–142 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Dodds, Eric R. |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
THE last phase of Greek philosophy has until recently been less intelli- gently studied than any other, and in our understanding of its development there are still lamentable lacunae. Three errors in particular have in the past prevented a proper appreciation of Plotinus' place in the history of philosophy. When this false trail was at length abandoned the fashion for orientalizing explanations persisted in another guise: to the earliest historians of Neo- platonism, Simon and Vacherot, the school of Plotinus was (in defiance of geographical facts) 'the school of Alexandria,' and its inspiration was mainly Egyptian. Vacherot says of Neoplatonism that it is 'essentially and radically oriental, having nothing of Greek thought but its language and procedure.' Few would be found to-day to subscribe to so sweeping a pronouncement; but the existence of an important oriental element in Plotinus' thought is still affirmed by many French and German writers. [p. 129] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ElUfvVkaaeLIJVk |
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Title | The Parmenides of Plato and the Origin of the Neoplatonic 'One' |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1928 |
Journal | Classical Quarterly |
Volume | 22 |
Issue | 3/4 (Jul. - Oct., 1928), |
Pages | 129–142 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Dodds, Eric R. |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
THE last phase of Greek philosophy has until recently been less intelli- gently studied than any other, and in our understanding of its development there are still lamentable lacunae. Three errors in particular have in the past prevented a proper appreciation of Plotinus' place in the history of philosophy. When this false trail was at length abandoned the fashion for orientalizing explanations persisted in another guise: to the earliest historians of Neo- platonism, Simon and Vacherot, the school of Plotinus was (in defiance of geographical facts) 'the school of Alexandria,' and its inspiration was mainly Egyptian. Vacherot says of Neoplatonism that it is 'essentially and radically oriental, having nothing of Greek thought but its language and procedure.' Few would be found to-day to subscribe to so sweeping a pronouncement; but the existence of an important oriental element in Plotinus' thought is still affirmed by many French and German writers. [p. 129] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ElUfvVkaaeLIJVk |
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