Article: Fronterotta, Francesco and Leszl, Walter, editors. Eidos-Idea: Platone, Aristotele e la Tradizione Platonica.(Book review)

FRONTEROTTA, Francesco and LESZL, Walter, editors. Eidos-Idea: Platone, Aristotele e la Tradizione Platonica. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2005. xxx + 278 pp. Hardbound, $58.50--Efforts to comprehend Plato unmediated by later readers' concerns may remind one of the Prolegomena to the Philosophy of Plato, likely authored by a successor of Olympiodorus in the second half of the sixth century, which offers the enigmatic observation that Plato "placed the ideas within the exemplary cause ... beyond the efficient cause" (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1990, p. 9). In contrast, these thirteen studies in Italian that critically examine commentators from Antiquity forward are for ...

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