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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/156852810X523923 Phronesis 55 (2010) 357-375 brill.nl/phro Book Notes * Neoplatonism Peter Adamson Philosophy Department, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom peter.adamson@kcl.ac.uk Natural Philosophy It used to be a well-known fact that Neoplatonists were not much inter- ested in the natural world. But like other well-known facts – such as the Neoplatonists’ supposed lack of interest in practical ethics and political philosophy – this claim has slowly been acquiring the status of debunked stereotype. A new emphasis on Neoplatonic natural philosophy, already detectable in some recent publications, 1 reaches a climax with the appear- ance of a collection of articles edited by Riccardo Chiaradonna and Franco Trabattoni. 2 It also includes three excellent articles that deal with figures before Plotinus. Rashed questions the evidence of Simplicius which claims that there was a tradition of opposing Aristotle’s theory that the four elements have rectilinear motion. He shows that, instead, each of Ptolemy, Xenarchus and Plotinus had distinctive views; in fact Ptolemy’s was actually close to that of Aristotle. Chiaradonna provides a fundamen- tal study of the aims of Galen’s On Demonstration , which is preserved only in fragments and reports.
Phronesis – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2010
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