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From Pat Deveney's database:
Bibliotheca Platonica. See notes on The Platonist, of which this is the successor. The journal more strictly restricted itself to translations and avoided the occult contributions that had appeared in and arguably detracted from the scholarly standards of its predecessor. Contributions by |
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| Bibliotheca Platonica V1 N1 Jul-Aug 1889 | |
| Bibliotheca Platonica V1 N2 Nov-Dec 1889 | |
| Bibliotheca Platonica V1 N3 May-Jun 1890 | |
| Bibliotheca Platonica V1 N4 Nov-Dec 1890 | |
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Bibliotheca Platonica was a short-lived and entirely serious American quarterly, published from Osceola, Missouri, between 1889 and 1890 and edited by Thomas M. Johnson, a country judge who was also the leading American Platonist of his generation. It is devoted to Plato, Plotinus and the whole later Platonic tradition, and its scholarship is real: one article works through lists of Greek vocabulary peculiar to a small group of dialogues, the stylometric method by which the chronology of Plato's writings was then being settled. Another follows the Plotinian argument that we extend ourselves in vain toward what is nothing, since what is not even one does not exist at all, and that the One alone is the cause of the many. A third reports on the later Platonists' allegorical reconciliation of the popular religions, in which the gods of the heathen become celestial ministers entitled to an inferior worship. Johnson belonged to the Theosophical Society, and the journal has a mild Theosophical adjacency, but its business is philosophy at its most learned. It is one of the touchstones of the nineteenth-century American Platonist revival. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Hermeticism and Western Esotericism | Perennial Philosophy and Comparative Religion |
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