Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought

• Main Author: Catana, Leo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 227
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Protestantism.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Europe-History-1492-.; Historiography.; History of Philosophy.; Protestantism and Lutheranism.; Classical Philosophy.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Historiography and Method.

This work synthesizes work previously published in leading journals in the field into a coherent narrative that has a distinctive focus on Germany while also being aware of a broader European dimension. It argues that the German Lutheran Christoph August Heumann (1681-1764) marginalized the biograph...

Table of Contents:

• 1. From Persona to Systema: Heumann's Dethronement of Porphyry's Vita Plotini and the Biographical Model in History of Philosophy
• 2. The Origin of the Division between Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism
• 3. Changing Interpretations of Plotinus: The Eighteenth-Century Introduction of the Concept of a 'System of Philosophy
• 4. Thomas Taylor's Dissent from Some Eighteenth-Century Views on Platonic Philosophy: The Ethical and Theological Context.