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Excerpt from The Platonism of Philo Judaeus: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Greek
The appearance of another dissertation on a topic connected with Philo seems to need explanation, and, though I have made this explana tion at length in the first chapter, it should perhaps be mentioned here. Recent scholarship, while throwing light on the influence of modes of thought that belong to the Hellenistic period, has tended in the case of Philo to obscure the more fundamental charac ter of the influence of Plato. It has seemed necessary to restate the nature and extent of this influence in order to clarify present-day think ing on the content and the influence of Philo's work. The subject was suggested to me by Professor Paul Shorey, of the University of Chicago. I have been directed to fruitful lines of investigation and saved from many errors by Professor Shorey's generous use of his time in reading and discussing the manuscript. Throughout the work I have had the advantage of Dr. Grace Hadley Billings' intimate knowledge of Plato. My indebtedness to printed sources has for the most part been acknowledged in the footnotes. I find, however, that neither in the text nor in the notes have I made plain the extent of my debt to Professor Br�hier. I have had his works on Philo constantly at hand, and, though there are many points of interpretation on which I find myself in disagreement with him, I am deeply indebted, as all students of Philo must be, to his wide and accurate learning and to the admirable lucidity of his method. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
