Books written by Lloyd P. Gerson

Aristotle and Other Platonists

In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the harmony of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity.
Aristotle: Politics, rhetoric and aesthetics

This is not just a Platonic point , of course ; it is also to be found in Adam Smith's lectures on rhetoric , for example . To understand rhetoric as imitation , or better , as representation , is to open up the question of the ...
The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

Sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' 'Neoplatonism'.
Ancient Epistemology

This book explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from Socrates' predecessors up to the Platonists of late antiquity.
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity

The volume also includes a complete digest of all philosophical works known to have been written during this period. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in this rich and still emerging field.
Ennead V.5: That the Intelligibles are Not External to the Intellect, and on the Good

"A translation of Plotinus' Enneads V.5: "That the Intelligibles are not External to the Intellect, and on the Good," with an introduction and philosophical commentary.
The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction The ancient biography of Epicurus The extant letters Ancient collections of maxims Doxographical reports The testimony of Cicero The testimony of Lucretius The polemic of Plutarch Short fragments and ...
Plotinus-Arg Philosophers

Editor: Ted Honderich Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London The purpose of ... Mill *Nietzsche *Pierce *Karl Popper Santayana *Plato *The Presocratic Philosophers *Thomas Reid *Russell *Sartre ...
The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non ...
Aristotle and Other Platonists

For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposition to Plato's.
Plotinus-Arg Philosophers

This is a collection of his works- Ennead I contains treatises on what Porphyry calls “ethical matters”; Enneads II–III contain treatises on natural philosophy or cosmology, with some rationalizations for the inclusion of III. 4, 5, 7 ...
God and Greek Philosophy: Studies in the Early History of Natural Theology

God and Greek Philosophy: Studies in the Early History of Natural Theology