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Editor's Notes

Editor's Notes 360 EDITOR'S NOTES Book Notes: Two handsome volumes from the same publishing house: each as ambitious in scope as it is luxurious in presentation, each the first installment of a major project. Der Platonismus in der Antike was the culmination of Heinrich D6rrie's scholarly activity. The first volume - Die geschichtlichen Wurzeln des Platonismus - was virtually completed by Dorrie before his death. The remaining volumes are being prepared for the press by Matthias Baltes and Friedhelm Mann. Dbrrie's design, the origins and development of which are touchingly told in a brief Preface by his widow, was to present the philosophy of Platonism. By 'Platonism' Dorrie means not Plato's own thought but the system constructed and taught by those later thinkers who took themselves to be prolonging the Platonic tradition and who arrogated the name of ilÀatWVLxoí (pp. 3-4). This Platonism was born in the first century BC, grew up under 'Middle Platonism', and came to full maturity in the care of the philosophers we now call Neoplatonist. And it rose to become, in D6rrie's words, 'the dominant spiritual phenomenon of its age' (p. 12). In his lucid Introduction, D6rrie offers an outline sketch of the system in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Phronesis Brill

Editor's Notes

Phronesis , Volume 32 (1-3): 360 – Jan 1, 1987

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Brill
Copyright
© 1987 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0031-8868
eISSN
1568-5284
DOI
10.1163/156852887X00208
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360 EDITOR'S NOTES Book Notes: Two handsome volumes from the same publishing house: each as ambitious in scope as it is luxurious in presentation, each the first installment of a major project. Der Platonismus in der Antike was the culmination of Heinrich D6rrie's scholarly activity. The first volume - Die geschichtlichen Wurzeln des Platonismus - was virtually completed by Dorrie before his death. The remaining volumes are being prepared for the press by Matthias Baltes and Friedhelm Mann. Dbrrie's design, the origins and development of which are touchingly told in a brief Preface by his widow, was to present the philosophy of Platonism. By 'Platonism' Dorrie means not Plato's own thought but the system constructed and taught by those later thinkers who took themselves to be prolonging the Platonic tradition and who arrogated the name of ilÀatWVLxoí (pp. 3-4). This Platonism was born in the first century BC, grew up under 'Middle Platonism', and came to full maturity in the care of the philosophers we now call Neoplatonist. And it rose to become, in D6rrie's words, 'the dominant spiritual phenomenon of its age' (p. 12). In his lucid Introduction, D6rrie offers an outline sketch of the system in

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Published: Jan 1, 1987

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