| 单词 | middle platonism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMiddle Platonism Middle Platonism n. †(a) the middle period of Plato's philosophical development (obsolete rare); (b) the phase of Platonism between the period of the Academies and the start of Neoplatonism, i.e. from the middle of the 1st cent. b.c. to about a.d. 200, constituting a revival of Platonic philosophy in systematic and dogmatic form (as against the preceding Academic scepticism), and including Aristotelian and Stoic elements, with some influence of Pythagoreanism (best represented in the writings of Plutarch); cf. Neoplatonism n. ΚΠ 1897 W. Lutosławski Origin & Growth Plato's Logic vi. 358 This short epoch of middle Platonism lasting up to Plato's fiftieth year produced..an amount of text equal to one half of all the works written in the remaining thirty years of the philosopher's life. 1931 L. R. Palmer tr. E. Zeller Outl. Hist. Greek Philos. §85 (heading) The Middle Platonism. 1937 R. E. Witt Albinus & Hist. Middle Platonism (Trans. Cambr. Philol. Soc. 7) p. ix This epitome of Plato's philosophy..will be studied chiefly in connexion with the relevant philosophies of the pre-Christian Era, with the Platonism of the first two centuries of our Era—conveniently termed ‘Middle Platonism’—of which it is a typical product, and with the Neoplatonism of Plotinus. 1967 P. Merlan in A. H. Armstrong Cambr. Hist. Later Greek & Early Medieval Philos. 14 The Platonism of the period between the first century b.c. and his [sc. Platinus' time] (today often designated as pre-Neoplatonism or Middle Platonism). 1991 Classical Q. New Ser. 41 495 The distinction between Neoplatonism and Middle Platonism is a modern one, not adopted in antiquity. < as lemmas |
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