WizardingWorldClass t1_j5jk55x wrote on January 23, 2023 at 1:43 PM

Reply to comment by WarrenHarding in The Best Books on Neoplatonism - To the modern reader, Neoplatonist thinkers can seem quite alien, but engaging with them helps us to understand ourselves and modern philosophy better, says Ursula Coope, Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford. by five_books

Do you mean early "neo"-platonists who derived much of their thought from the teachings of plato but differed in particular ways (much like Plotinus would later)? Or do you mean thinkers who wrote about alternatives to platonic metaphysics in-between Plato and Plotinus?

WarrenHarding t1_j5jpxcp wrote on January 23, 2023 at 2:29 PM

I mean quite literally the subgroups I listed in the original comment, so I suppose more the latter than the former but idk if they fall neatly into either group. iirc either the stoics or the skeptics also had control of the academy for a while. If you also have works on the former of the two groups you mentioned though I’d be interested in that too