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Henry J. Blumenthal
Gladstone Reader in Greek, University of Liverpool. Author of Aristotle and Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity.
Henry J. Blumenthal,
A. Hilary Armstrong
Gladstone Professor of Greek, University of Liverpool, England, 1950–72. Editor of The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Mediaeval Philosophy; translator of Plotinus.
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Platonism, any philosophy that derives its ultimate inspiration from Plato. Though there was in antiquity a tradition about Plato’s “unwritten doctrines,” Platonism then and later was based primarily on a reading of the dialogues. But these can be read in many different ways, often very selectively, and it may be that all that the various kinds of Platonism can be said to have in common is an intense concern for the quality of human life—always ethical, often religious, and sometimes political, based on a belief in unchanging and eternal realities, which Plato called forms, independent of the changing things of ...(100 of 8861 words)

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