- Title
- Instruction and hermeneutics in the Didascalicus
- Creator
- Tarrant, Harold
- Relation
- Argumenta in dialogos Platonis.Teil I: Platoninterpretation und ihre Hermeneutik von der Antike bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Akten des Internationalen Symposions vom 27.-29. April 2006 im Instituto Svizzero di Roma p. 77-100
- Relation
- Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana
- Relation
- http://www.schwabe.ch/schwabe-verlag/buecher/buchdetails/altertumswissenschaften/argumenta-in-dialogos-platonis-4261
- Publisher
- Schwabe Verlag
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- In accordance with the suggestive word είσαγωγή at its conclusion (185.28), it was easily assumed that Alcinous’ Didascalicus is an introductory work. Such a view may have been related to the perception of ‹Middle Platonism› as a philosophically unsatisfying movement unable to break out of an introductory mode of thought. We have now learned to recognize the diversity of Platonism within the second century C.E., from which Alcinous is normally held to have come, and in respecting this we recognize better the various levels at which Platonists worked, and the variety of their approaches to the teaching of Plato. The major choice then confronting a teacher of Platonism was between teaching a corpus of Plato’s dialogues; teaching a distinct system of school doctrines; or teaching a way of life implicit in Plato’s life and writings. Combinations of these were also possible.
- Subject
- Alcinous; Didascalicus; Platonism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932720
- Identifier
- uon:11440
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783796526541
- Language
- eng
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