This book treats both Christian and non-Christian texts from the first century BCE to the sixth century CE, and suggests that dealing with disagreement helped philosophers define their own traditions while creating a conceptual common ground.<\/p>\n
Ancient philosophy is known for its organisation into distinct schools. But those schools were not locked into static dogmatism. As recent scholarship has shown, lively debate persisted between and within traditions. Yet the interplay between tradition and disagreement remains underexplored. This volume asks, first, how philosophers talked about differences of opinion within and between traditions and, second, how such debates affected the traditions involved. It covers the period from the first century BCE, which witnessed a turn to authoritative texts in different philosophical movements, through the rise of Christianity, to the golden age of Neoplatonic commentaries in the fifth and sixth centuries CE.<\/p>\n
By studying various philosophical and Christian traditions alongside and in interaction with each other, this volume reveals common philosophical strategies of identification and differentiation. Ancient authors construct their own traditions in their (polemical) engagements with dissenters and opponents. Yet this very process of dissociation helped establish a common conceptual ground between traditions. This volume will be an important resource for specialists in late ancient philosophy, early Christianity, and the history of ideas.<\/p>\n
TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/p>\n
Albert Joosse and Angela Ulacco \u2014 Introduction<\/p>\n
Riccardo Chiaradonna \u2014 The Early Peripatetic Interpreters of Aristotle\u2019s Categories and the Previous Philosophical Tradition<\/p>\n
Franco Ferrari \u2014 \u00c8 esistita un\u2019eterodossia nel medioplatonismo?<\/p>\n
Teun Tieleman \u2014 Galen on Disagreement: Sects, Philosophical Methods and Christians<\/p>\n
Albert Joosse \u2014 \u0393\u03bd\u1ff6\u03b8\u03b9 \u03c3\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03cc\u03bd and the Platonic Tradition in Clement of Alexandria<\/p>\n
S\u00e9bastien Morlet \u2014 L\u2019accusation de mauvaise entente (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03ae) dans la pol\u00e9mique entre pa\u00efens et chr\u00e9tiens \u00e0 la fin de l\u2019Antiquit\u00e9<\/p>\n
Robbert M. van den Berg \u2014 Plato\u2019s Violent Readers: Pagan Neoplatonists against Christian Appropriations of Plato\u2019s Timaeus<\/p>\n
Helmut Seng \u2014 Mythenkritik und Kultpolemik bei Firmicus Maternus<\/p>\n
Alexandra Michalewski \u2014 \u00ab L\u2019\u00e2me est le lieu des formes \u00bb Une r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 l\u2019argument du troisi\u00e8me homme \u00e0 travers la symph\u00f4nia de Platon et d\u2019Aristote dans le Commentaire \u00e0 la M\u00e9taphysique d\u2019Ascl\u00e9pius de Tralles<\/p>\n
Mareike Hauer \u2014 The Use of Stoic References in Simplicius\u2019 Discussion of Quality<\/p>\n
Index<\/p>\n
Bibliography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"