Thomas Taylor, the Platonist: Selected Writings

by Thomas Taylor

Book Overview

This volume makes available to the modern reader selected writings of Thomas Taylor, the eighteenth-century English Platonist. TO Taylor we are indebted for the first full translation into English of Plato and Aristotle. Platonism, as Taylor saw it, was an informing principle, transmitted through a "golden chain of philosophers," a doctrine received by Socrates and Plato from the Orphic and Pythagorean past and transmitted to the future. It emerged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691622175
• ISBN13: 9780691622170
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"