Rewriting the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy by Tejera, Victorino

Rewriting the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313303579)

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Rewriting the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy by Tejera, Victorino

Rewriting the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy

$80.00
Rewriting the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy by Tejera, Victorino

Rewriting the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy

$80.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book examines what we can reliably know about Plato and the historical Socrates. It shows how pervasively the sources of information were biased by Pythagoreanism, Platonism, and Neoplatonism. It gives a source-critical account of how the climate of opinion in fourth-century Athens was captured by the Pythagoreans and how Speusippos's Academy also came to be pythagorized--adding definitional idealism to Pythagorean number idealism, and elevating Plato to a divine level that makes him into a coequal of Pythagoras, thus capturing Plato for Pythagoreanism. By showing how Plato's dialogues were dedramatized, dedialogized, and read or understood as if they were works expounding pythagorizing doctrine, Tejera has created a provocative reappraisal for scholars of ancient Greek philosophy.

Author: Victorino Tejera
ISBN-10: 0313303576
ISBN-13: 9780313303579
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 11/20/1997
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.54w x 0.72d
By Victorino Tejera
By Victorino Tejera
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V. TEJERA is Stony Brook University Professor Emeritus of Humanities. He is the author of ten earlier books and numerous articles surveying Greek philosophy, classic American thought, and literary theory.

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