The Virtues and 'Becoming like God': Alcinous to Proclus

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 26:297-321 (2004)
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Later versions of Platonic ethics fit the frame of eudaimonism and specify a telos based on Theaetetus 176B and Timaeus 90A-D: 'likeness to god in so far as possible'. This paper examines the development of this idea from the middle Platonist Alcinous to the Neoplatonist Proclus. It examines the way in which Proclus makes this specification of human happiness a bit less "other worldy".

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reprint Baltzly, Dirk (2004) "The Virtues and 'Becoming Like God': Alcinous to Proclus". In Sedley, David, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxvi: Summer 2004, pp. : Oxford University Press (2004)

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Dirk Baltzly
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