HomoiÃ´sis TheÃ´i (Plato, Theaetetus 176b1) in Late Neoplatonism

Giovanna R. Giardina

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Chapter 15 HomoiÃ´sis TheÃ´i (Plato, Theaetetus 176b1) in Late Neoplatonism

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The platonic prescription of escape from the world as á½Î¼Î¿Î¯ÏÏÎ¹Ï Î¸Îµá¿· that we read in Tht. 176a5âb2 but present also in many other dialogues â an issue that received great attention by the scholars in the last twenty years â has been identified by the Medioplatonic philosophers with the telos of human life and therefore with happiness. With these connotations it becomes an issue debated by Neoplatonic philosophers from Plotinus to the epigones of the Alexandrian school. The problems these philosophers propose to clarify are many: to what God Plato prescribes to assimilate; if the escape prescribed by Plato implies a total leaving from political activity; in what measure the man can assimilate himself to God; if god assimilates himself to man since man assimilates himself to god; what Plato intends when he speaks of justice, piety and intelligence and what relation these virtues have to each other. With Philoponus, as with Philon, the issue of á½Î¼Î¿Î¯ÏÏÎ¹Ï Î¸Îµá¿· ends by crossing the boundaries of Platonic ethics and metaphysics and thus becomes destined to permeate Christian reflection in the centuries of Byzantium. In this paper, after presenting the issue of á½Î¼Î¿Î¯ÏÏÎ¹Ï Î¸Îµá¿· in his general lines and anteceding Late Neoplatonism, I try to analyze the problems and the solutions offered by late Neoplatonic philosophers in their interpretation of Theat. 176a5âb2.

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New Explorations in Plato's Theaetetus

Belief, Knowledge, Ontology, Reception

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Cover New Explorations in Plato's <i>Theaetetus</i>

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Section 1 The Theaetetus and Plato

Section 2 Relativism between Ontology and Epistemology

Section 3 Maieutics, Sophistry, Philosophy

Section 4 Images of the Cognitive Soul

Section 5 Belief, Knowledge, Ontology

Section 6 The Theaetetus beyond Plato

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Chapter 15 HomoiÃ´sis TheÃ´i (Plato, Theaetetus 176b1) in Late Neoplatonism

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