Platos Parmenides And Its Heritage Parmenides Interpretation From Plotinus To Damascius

Download or read book Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage: Parmenides interpretation from Plotinus to Damascius written by John Douglas Turner and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.