Theoria, praxis, and the contemplative life after Plato and Aristotle / edited by Thomas Bénatouïl & Mauro Bonazzi.

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TextSeries: Philosophia antiqua ; v. 131.Publication details: Leiden : BRILL, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (306 pages)Content type:

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9789004230040
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Contents:

Acknowledgements; "Theoria" and "Bios Theoretikos" from the Presocratics to the End of Antiquity: An Overview; Part One. The Hellenistic and Post-Hellenistic Debate; Theophraste: les limites ethiques, psychologiques et cosmologiques de la contemplation; "Aplanes Theoria". Einige Aspekte der Epikureischen Vorstellung vom "Bios Theoretikos"; Ciceron et le probleme des genres de vie: une problematique de la voluntas?; Seneca and the Contemplatio Veri. De otio and Epistulae morales; Beyond the Theoretikos Bios: Philosophy and Praxis in Sextus Empiricus.

Part Two. Early Imperial Platonism and NeoplatonismLa contemplation chez Philon d'Alexandrie; Theoria and Praxis: On Plutarch's Platonism; The Theoretikos Bios in Alcinous; Plotinus and Porphyry on the Contemplative Life; Damascius on the Contemplative Life; Part Three. The Christian Reception; Leah and Rachel as Figures of the Active and the Contemplative Life in Augustine's Contra Faustum Manichaeum; Maximus Confessor on Theory and Praxis. A Commentary on Ambigua Ad Johannem VI (10) 1-19; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index of Ancient Names; Index of Modern Authors.

Summary: This volume deals with the appropriations, criticism and transformation of Plato's and Aristotle's positions about theory, practice and the contemplative life, including their epistemological and metaphysical foundations, from Theophrastus to the end of Antiquity (including Jewish and Christian authors).

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This volume deals with the appropriations, criticism and transformation of Plato's and Aristotle's positions about theory, practice and the contemplative life, including their epistemological and metaphysical foundations, from Theophrastus to the end of Antiquity (including Jewish and Christian authors).