Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study in Its Development from the Stoics to Origen

by G. R. Boys-Stones

Overview

This book traces, for the first time, a revolution in philosophy which took place during the early centuries of our era. It reconstructs the philosophical basis of the Stoics' theory that fragments of an ancient and divine wisdom could be reconstructed from mythological traditions, and shows that Platonism was founded on an argument that Plato had himself achieved a full reconstruction of this wisdom, and that subsequent philosophies had only regressed once again in their attempts to "improve" on his achievement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198152644
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/24/2001
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)