Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding ... Neoplatonism is the longest and most enduring tradition in the history of philosophy and yet perhaps ...

This book examines these works to reveal how Apuleius' Platonism is a result of his 'impersonation of philosophy', that is, a rhetorically powerful methodological tool that allows him to 'speak' on ...

In this, just like Platonism, idealism by and large orients itself by a standard model of philosophy that does not provide for a rigid difference between theory and practice. For the political ...

He is interested in the relationship between philosophy and poetry, ranging from the philosophical study of poetry (i.e. Plato's critique of poetry in the Republic) to the poetic expression of ...