The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period : A Doxographic Approach

This collection of essays delineates the history of the rather disparate intellectual tradition usually labeled as "Platonic" or "Neoplatonic". In chronological order, the book covers the most eminent philosophic schools of thought within that tradition. The most important terms of the Platonic tradition are studied together with a discussion of their semantic implications, the philosophical and theological claims associated with the terms, the sources that furnish the terms, and the intellectual traditions aligned with or opposed to them. The contributors thereby provide a vivid intellectual map of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Contributions are written in English or German. Preface 1. Sources and Early Middle Ages The Medieval Legacy From Ancient Platonism Plato arabico-latinus: Philosophy – Wisdom Literature – Occult Sciences Platonism – A Doxographic Approach: The Early Middle Ages 2. The Twelfth Century Simmistes veri. Das Bild Piatons in der Theologie des zwölften Jahrhunderts Plato im zwölften Jahrhundert: Einige Hinweise zu seinem Verschwinden “Magis sit Platonicus quam Aristotelicus”: Interpretations of Boethius’s Platonism in the Consolatio Philosophiae From the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Century 3. Thirteenth to Fifteenth-Century Platonism Die platonische Tradition bei Albertus Magnus. Eine Hinführung Aquinas and the Platonists ‘Modus loquendi platonicorum’. Johannes Gerson und seine Kritik an Platon und den Platonisten Cusanus Platonicus. References to the Term ‘Platonici’ in Nicholas of Cusa 4. Iconography Medieval Visual Images of Plato 5. Appendices Bibliography Index of Manuscripts Index of Names Offers the collection of essays that delineates the history of the rather disparate intellectual tradition usually labeled as "Platonic" or "Neoplatonic". In chronological order, this book covers the eminent philosophic schools of thought within that tradition. The beginnings of medieval philosophy, in a textual sense, can be found in the Latin authors of late antiquity.