Arne Malmsheimer. Platons Parmenides und Marsilio Ficinos Parmenides-Kommentar: Ein kritischer Vergleich.(Book Review)

(Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 34.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: B.R. Grtiner, 2001. x + 325 pp. index, bibl. $95. ISBN: 90-6032-363-7.

Plato's Parmenides was accorded a unique theologico-philosophical authority by Plotinus and by the later Neoplatonists of the Athenian school. Through Proclus and his disciple, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, it played a formative role in the negative theologizing of early medieval Augustinianism. In the thirteenth century it influenced Aquinas, who had parts of Proclus' long commentary, along with the apposite lemmata, translated into Latin for him by the Dominican William of Moerbeke; and in the fifteenth, it molded the Platonism both of Cusanus, for whom it was quickly and sloppily translated by George of …