Buch, Englisch
Selected Studies
Buch, Englisch
Reihe: Italian Classical Scholarship in Translation
ISBN: 978-1-009-58254-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This volume collects ten revised and translated essays by Bruno Centrone, one of Italy's leading scholars of ancient philosophy. Together they trace a rich and coherent intellectual narrative from Plato's metaphysics, ethics, and psychology to their reinterpretation to later Pythagoreanizing writings. Centrone's studies combine meticulous philological accuracy with philosophical depth, shedding new light on Plato's conception of truth, being, virtue, and the soul, as well as on the complex processes through which later thinkers reshaped Platonic doctrines. A particular strength of the book lies in its treatment of post-Hellenistic pseudo-Pythagorean texts, for which Centrone's work remains foundational. By collecting and making these landmark studies available in English, this volume provides an essential resource for scholars, graduate students, and libraries, and a crucial bridge between Italian and anglophone traditions of scholarship on ancient philosophy.
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Introduction: from Plato to post-Hellenistic Pythagoreanizing texts, and back to Plato: the narrative and impact of ten papers by Bruno Centrone; 1. Logical Aletheia, ontological Aletheia in Plato; 2. Pathos and Ousia in Plato's early dialogues; 3. The Eidos as Holon in Plato and its reflections in Aristotle; 4. Platonic virtue as a Holon: from the laws to the Protagoras; 5. Phaedrus 261e6–262c3 and the deception of good rhetoric; 6. Personal immortality in Plato: another noble lie?; 7. The anterastai and Plato's erotic dialogues; 8. Aristotle's testimony on Pythagorean principles in Metaphysics Alpha: a distorted account?; 9. Pseudo-Pythagorica Ethica: an introduction; 10. Being Pythagorean in the imperial age: reassessing the historiographical category of neo-Pythagoreanism.
