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Thomas Taylor, the Platonist: Selected Writings
By (Author) Thomas Taylor
Edited by Kathleen Raine
Edited by George Mills
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
21st May 2019
United States
Paperback
584
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
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 receive