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Plato and Theodoret

Name: Plato and Theodoret
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521300650
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The Christian Appropriation of Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance

Autor: Niketas Siniossoglou

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Editura: Cambridge University Press

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In late antiquity Plato's philosophy became a battlefield between the competing discourses and rival...

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Autor

Niketas Siniossoglou

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2011

Pagini

280

EAN

9780521300650

ISBN

0521300657

Enbook ID

02027192

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

330

Dimensiuni

140 x 216 x 15

Descriere completă

In late antiquity Plato's philosophy became a battlefield between the competing discourses and rival intellectual paradigms represented by Hellenism and Christianity. Focusing on Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Graecarum Affectionum Curatio, Dr Siniossoglou examines the philosophical, rhetorical and political dimensions of the Neoplatonic–Christian conflict of interpretations over Plato. He shows that the apologist's aim was to procure a radical shift in Hellenic intellectual identity through the appropriation of Platonic concepts and terminology. The apologetical strategies of appropriation are confronted with the perspective of the intended audience, the Hellenic elite, by means of comparative discourse analysis. The outcome is a reconstruction of a vital trial of strength between Neoplatonic hermeneutics and the Christian rhetorical mode of rewriting Plato. The 2008 volume concludes that the fundamental Hellenic–Christian opposition outweighed any linguistic merging that might have occurred between the two systems, and that this opposition outlived the dominance of Christianity in late antique society and politics.