Appropriatio Platonica: A Taxonomy of Platonist Borrowings

Journal article

Kasra Abdavi-Azar
Ancient Philosophy, vol. 45(2), 2025, pp. 545–65

DOI: 10.5840/ANCIENTPHIL202545232

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Abdavi-Azar, K. (2025). Appropriatio Platonica: A Taxonomy of Platonist Borrowings. Ancient Philosophy, 45(2), 545–565. https://doi.org/10.5840/ANCIENTPHIL202545232

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Abdavi-Azar, Kasra. “Appropriatio Platonica: A Taxonomy of Platonist Borrowings.” Ancient Philosophy 45, no. 2 (2025): 545–65.

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Abdavi-Azar, Kasra. “Appropriatio Platonica: A Taxonomy of Platonist Borrowings.” Ancient Philosophy, vol. 45, no. 2, 2025, pp. 545–65, doi:10.5840/ANCIENTPHIL202545232.

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@article{kasra2025a,
  title = {Appropriatio Platonica: A Taxonomy of Platonist Borrowings},
  year = {2025},
  issue = {2},
  journal = {Ancient Philosophy},
  pages = {545–65},
  volume = {45},
  doi = {10.5840/ANCIENTPHIL202545232},
  author = {Abdavi-Azar, Kasra}
}

Abstract

This paper proposes a taxonomy to systematise the diverse ways in which Platonists appropriated foreign concepts and terminology. Through a case study, it demonstrates that Platonists did not merely replicate foreign notions but rather assimilated them into their own framework. It argues that such appropriations were justified from a Platonist perspective. Platonists accorded absolute epistemic authority to Plato, and they hence conceived of all truthful beliefs as inherently Platonic, whether in nature or origin.