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Olympiodorus: On Plato First Alcibiades 10-28
Contributor(s): Griffin, Michael (Editor)
ISBN: 1350052221     ISBN-13: 9781350052222
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
OUR PRICE:   $47.47  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical
- Philosophy | Religious
Dewey: 184
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.75 lbs) 240 pages
 
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Olympiodorus (AD c. 500-570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, delivered 28 lectures as an introduction to Plato. This volume translates lectures 10-28, following from the first nine lectures and a biography of the philosopher published in translation in a companion volume, Olympiodorus: Life of Plato and On Plato First Alcibiades 1-9 (Bloomsbury, 2014).

For us, these lectures can serve as an accessible introduction to late Neoplatonism. Olympiodorus locates the First Alcibiades at the start of the curriculum on Plato, because it is about self-knowledge. His pupils are beginners, able to approach the hierarchy of philosophical virtues, like the aristocratic playboy Alcibiades. Alcibiades needs to know himself, at least as an individual with particular actions, before he can reach the virtues of mere civic interaction. As Olympiodorus addresses mainly Christian students, he tells them that the different words they use are often symbols of truths shared between their faiths.

Contributor Bio(s): Griffin, Michael: - Michael Griffin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is co-editor of the series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle and editor of the volumes in that series on Olympiodorus' Life of Plato and Lectures on Plato's First Alcibiades.Sorabji, Richard: - Richard Sorabji is Research Professor of Philosophy at King's College London and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of many books, including Necessity, Clause and Blame, Matter, Space and Motion, and Time, Creation and the Continuum, all published by Bloomsbury, and general editor of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series.