
HoP 081 - Jan Opsomer on Middle Platonism
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Are They Taking Their Cue From Plato?
The main thing is indeed to have, and a system has to start with principles. An important area will be onthology and metaphysics. Since it is a system, also ethics will be included, logic will be included. So all the areas of philosophy that have been developed ine classical antalonistic times, do they take their cue from plato in this respect? They certainly try to. But they are also very aware of the tradition of philosophy since plato. And then there is a curious phenomenon that they want to attribute all the discoveries that were made later to plato himself. Es a synthesis of all the wisdom before him and all the wisdom after him has alded
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