This Open Access book looks at Olympiodorus (AD
c. 500–570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, who delivered these lectures as an introduction to Plato with a biography. For us, they can serve as an accessible introduction to late Neoplatonism. Olympiodorus locates the
First Alcibiades at the start of the curriculum on Plato, because it is about self-knowledge. His pupils are beginners, able to approach the hierarchy of philosophical virtues, like the aristocratic playboy Alcibiades. Alcibiades needs to know himself, at least as an individual with particular actions, before he can reach the virtues of mere civic interaction. As Olympiodorus addresses mainly Christian students, he tells them that the different words they use are often symbols of truths shared between their faiths.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of British Columbia.
c. 500–570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, who delivered these lectures as an introduction to Plato with a biography. For us, they can serve as an accessible introduction to late Neoplatonism. Olympiodorus locates the
First Alcibiades at the start of the curriculum on Plato, because it is about self-knowledge. His pupils are beginners, able to approach the hierarchy of philosophical virtues, like the aristocratic playboy Alcibiades. Alcibiades needs to know himself, at least as an individual with particular actions, before he can reach the virtues of mere civic interaction. As Olympiodorus addresses mainly Christian students, he tells them that the different words they use are often symbols of truths shared between their faiths.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of British Columbia.
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Format EPUB ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9781472588319 ● Editor Michael (University of British Columbia, Canada) Griffin ● Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4075638 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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