Theoria, Praxis, and the Contemplative Life after Plato and Aristotle
Biographical note
Thomas Bénatouïl, Ph.D. (2002), is Maître de conférences at the University of Lorraine (France), a member of the Archives Henri Poincaré Research Team, and a junior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has published extensively on Hellenistic and Imperial Philosophy, especially Stoicism.
Mauro Bonazzi, Ph.D. (2001) in Ancient Philosophy, is Lecturer and Aggregate Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at Milan State University. He has published extensively on Platonism, including Academici e Platonici. Il dibattito antico sullo scetticismo di Platone (2003).
Contributors: Thomas Bénatouïl, Michael Erler, Carlos Lévy, Margaret Graver, Emidio Spinelli, Valéry Laurand, Mauro Bonazzi, David Sedley, Alessandro Linguiti, Gerd Van Riel, Giovanni Catapano, Carlos Steel
Mauro Bonazzi, Ph.D. (2001) in Ancient Philosophy, is Lecturer and Aggregate Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at Milan State University. He has published extensively on Platonism, including Academici e Platonici. Il dibattito antico sullo scetticismo di Platone (2003).
Contributors: Thomas Bénatouïl, Michael Erler, Carlos Lévy, Margaret Graver, Emidio Spinelli, Valéry Laurand, Mauro Bonazzi, David Sedley, Alessandro Linguiti, Gerd Van Riel, Giovanni Catapano, Carlos Steel
Readership
All those interested in ancient philosophy and patristics, as well as classical philologists, philosophers, and historians of politics, culture and religion in ancient societies (greek and roman, pagan, jewish and christian).
Reviews
"All in all, this is a fine volume, which throws much light on the ways in which the claims of the practical, the theoretical and the mixed life were addressed in the post-Aristotelian period of ancient philosophy." John Dillon in BMCR, 23.09.2012
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