| Title | Platonopolis. Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Publication Place | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | O'Meara, Dominic J. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity — from Plotinus in the 3rd century to the 6th-century schools in Athens and Alexandria — neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. This book presents a reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved, rather than excluded, political ideas. A reconstruction of the political philosophy of these thinkers is proposed for the first time, including discussion of these Platonists’ conceptions of the function, structure, and contents of political science (including questions concerning political reform, law, justice, penology, religion, and political action), its relation to political virtue and to the divinization of soul and state. This book also traces the influence of these ideas on selected Christian and Islamic writers: Eusebius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and al-Farabi. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/XdU0h35redPduwd |
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| Title | Simplicius on the Place of the Philosopher in the City (In Epictetum chap. 32) |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2004 |
| Published in | The Greek strand in Islamic political thought. Proceedings of the conference held at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 16 - 27 June 2003 |
| Pages | 89-98 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | O’Meara, Dominic J. |
| Editor(s) | Gannagé, Emma |
| Translator(s) |
| The purpose of this paper is to propose some discussion of a passage in which a pagan Neoplatonist philosopher of the first half of the sixth century A. D. speaks of the function of the philosopher in political and social life. The Neoplatonist is Simplicius and the passage is found in chapter 32 of his commentary on the Manual of Epictetus. The date of this commentary is uncertain, but it has been argued that Simplicius refers in it to the anti-pagan measures taken by the Emperor Justinian in 529 which put an end to the activities of the Neoplatonist school at Athens and led to the exile in Persia of the school’s head, Damascius, accompanied by his pupil Simplicius and by other philosophers. My translation, given below (II), of the passage in Simplicius’ commentary is preceded (I) by some indications concerning the context in which the passage occurs and will be followed (III) by comments on themes present in the passage. [introduction, p. 89] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/WPQfZjkM4dK6We0 |
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| Title | Platonopolis. Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Publication Place | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | O'Meara, Dominic J. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity — from Plotinus in the 3rd century to the 6th-century schools in Athens and Alexandria — neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. This book presents a reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved, rather than excluded, political ideas. A reconstruction of the political philosophy of these thinkers is proposed for the first time, including discussion of these Platonists’ conceptions of the function, structure, and contents of political science (including questions concerning political reform, law, justice, penology, religion, and political action), its relation to political virtue and to the divinization of soul and state. This book also traces the influence of these ideas on selected Christian and Islamic writers: Eusebius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and al-Farabi. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/XdU0h35redPduwd |
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| Title | Simplicius on the Place of the Philosopher in the City (In Epictetum chap. 32) |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2004 |
| Published in | The Greek strand in Islamic political thought. Proceedings of the conference held at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 16 - 27 June 2003 |
| Pages | 89-98 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | O’Meara, Dominic J. |
| Editor(s) | Gannagé, Emma |
| Translator(s) |
The purpose of this paper is to propose some discussion of a passage in which a pagan Neoplatonist philosopher of the first half of the sixth century A. D. speaks of the function of the philosopher in political and social life. The Neoplatonist is Simplicius and the passage is found in chapter 32 of his commentary on the Manual of Epictetus. The date of this commentary is uncertain, but it has been argued that Simplicius refers in it to the anti-pagan measures taken by the Emperor Justinian in 529 which put an end to the activities of the Neoplatonist school at Athens and led to the exile in Persia of the school’s head, Damascius, accompanied by his pupil Simplicius and by other philosophers. My translation, given below (II), of the passage in Simplicius’ commentary is preceded (I) by some indications concerning the context in which the passage occurs and will be followed (III) by comments on themes present in the passage. [introduction, p. 89] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/WPQfZjkM4dK6We0 |
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