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Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition

Eric Perl
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      In Thinking Being, Eric Perl articulates central ideas and arguments regarding the nature of reality in Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Aquinas. He shows that, throughout this tradition, these ideas proceed from and return to the indissoluble togetherness of thought and being, first clearly expressed by Parmenides. The emphasis throughout is on continuity rather than opposition: Aristotle appears as a follower of Plato in identifying being as intelligible form, and Aquinas as a follower of Plotinus in locating the first principle “beyond being”. Hence Neoplatonism, itself a coherent development of Platonic thought, comes to be seen as the mainstream of classical philosophy. Perl’s book thus contributes to a revisionist understanding of the fundamental outlines of the western tradition in metaphysics.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Eric Perl EAN: 9789004264205 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 484 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-02-06 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Civilization, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Eric D. Perl, Ph.D. (1991), Yale University, is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He has published many articles on Plato and Neoplatonism and a monograph, Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite (State University of New York, 2007).
      In Thinking Being, Eric Perl articulates central ideas and arguments regarding the nature of reality in Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Aquinas. He shows that, throughout this tradition, these ideas proceed from and return to the indissoluble togetherness of thought and being, first clearly expressed by Parmenides. The emphasis throughout is on continuity rather than opposition: Aristotle appears as a follower of Plato in identifying being as intelligible form, and Aquinas as a follower of Plotinus in locating the first principle “beyond being”. Hence Neoplatonism, itself a coherent development of Platonic thought, comes to be seen as the mainstream of classical philosophy. Perl’s book thus contributes to a revisionist understanding of the fundamental outlines of the western tradition in metaphysics.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Eric Perl EAN: 9789004264205 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 484 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-02-06 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Civilization, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Eric D. Perl, Ph.D. (1991), Yale University, is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He has published many articles on Plato and Neoplatonism and a monograph, Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite (State University of New York, 2007).

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