Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition

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Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition is written by Michael Erler and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108922457 (ISBN 10) and 9781108922456 (ISBN 13).

All disciplines can count on a noble founder, and the representation of this founder as an authority is key in order to construe a discipline's identity. This book sheds light on how Plato and other authorities were represented in one of the most long-lasting traditions of all time. It leads the reader through exegesis and polemics, recovery of the past and construction of a philosophical identity. From Xenocrates to Proclus, from the sceptical shift to the re-establishment of dogmatism, from the Mosaic of the Philosophers to the Neoplatonist Commentaries, the construction of authority emerges as a way of access to the core of the Platonist tradition.