The Roots of Platonism: The Origins and Chief Features of a Philosophical Tradition/
by John Dillon
- New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- xi, 107 p. 23 cm.
1. The origins of Platonist dogmatism -- 2. Monist and dualist tendencies in Platonism before Plotinus -- 3. The ideas as thoughts of God -- 4. The hierarchy of being as a framework for Platonist ethical theory -- 5. Carneades the Socratic -- 6. Plutarch's relation to the new-academic tradition.