Abstract
The Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture is a full text open access online journal, edited by members and associates of the Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture and published by Cardiff University Press.
Highlights
Not that traditional approaches to Ancient Philosophy had not shown any awareness of the fact that “the Greeks did not invent philosophy” (p. x), but they did seem to rely on the assumption that only Classical and Hellenistic Greek philosophy deserved the label, while everything outside that frame, be it earlier or later, or geographically outside the Graeco-Roman sphere was either a rudimentary or a decaying form of that “real thing”, especially when it did not keep to a narrowly rationalist stance but engaged in metaphysical speculation or religious ritual
Stephen Clark is in an excellent position to take on this challenge
In his studies on Aristotle, Plotinus and on ancient philosophical anthropology and theology more widely he has for many years contributed to a widening of the view of what can or what should
Summary
Not that traditional approaches to Ancient Philosophy had not shown any awareness of the fact that “the Greeks did not invent philosophy” (p. x), but they did seem to rely on the assumption that only Classical and Hellenistic Greek philosophy (with its scientificrationalist tendencies) deserved the label, while everything outside that frame, be it earlier (in the “archaic” period) or later (in Late Antiquity), or geographically (and, linguistically!) outside the Graeco-Roman sphere (such as Egyptian, Semitic, Celtic, Persian and other traditions) was either a rudimentary or a decaying form of that “real thing”, especially when it did not keep to a narrowly rationalist stance but engaged in metaphysical speculation or religious ritual. Book Reviews in: Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 7 (2013) 101-110; ISSN: 1754-517X; Website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/clarc/jlarc be considered ancient philosophy.
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