Description
The theme of Volume 1 is the dissolution of firm boundaries for thinking about the tradition of Parmenides interpretation from the Old Academy through Middle Platonism and Gnosticism. The volume suggests a radically different interpretation of the history of thought from Plato to Proclus than is customary by arguing against Proclus's generally accepted view that there was no metaphysical interpretation of the Parmenides before Plotinus in the third century C.E.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Plato, from the Old Academy to Middle Platonism
1. The Place of the Parmenides in Plato's Thought and in the Subsequent
Tradition
Kevin Corrigan
2. Speusippus's Neutral Conception of the One and Plato's Parmenides
Gerald Bechtle
3. The Fragment of Speusippus in Column I of the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides
Luc Brisson
4. Speusippus and the Ontological Interpretation of the Parmenides
John Dillon
5. The Indefinite Dyad in Sextus Empiricus's Report (Adversus Mathathematicos 10.248-283) and Plato's Parmenides
Thomas Szlezak
6. Plato and Parmenides in Agreement: Ammonius's Praise of God as One-Being in Plutarch's The E At Delphi
Zlatko Plese
7. Moderatus, E. R. Dodds, and the Development of Neoplatonist Emanation
J. Noel Hubler
Section 2: Middle Platonic and Gnostic Texts
8. The Platonizing Sethian Treatises, Marius Victorinus's Philosophical Sources, and Pre-Plotinian Parmenides Commentaries
John D. Turner
9. Is There a Gnostic "Henological" Speculation?
Johanna Brankaer
10. The Greek Text behind the Parallel Sections in Zostrianos and Marius Victorinus
Volker Henning Drecoll
11. The Chaldaean Oracles and the Metaphysics of the Sethian Platonizing Treatises
John D. Turner
12. A Criticism of the Chaldaean Oracles and of the Gnostics in Columns IX and X of the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides
Luc Brisson
13. The Anonymous Commentary on Plato's Parmenides and Aristotle's Categories: Some Preliminary Remarks
Gerald Bechtle
14. Negative Theology and Radical Conceptual Purification in the Anonymous Commentary on Plato's Parmenides
Alain Lernould
15. A Criticism of Numenius in the Last Columns (XI-XIV) of the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides
Luc Brisson
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