Platonic Ideas & Concept Formation in Ancient & Medieval Thought Book

	Biography of Carlos Steel
	Introduction	1
I	Problems of the theory of forms
1	Four problems concerning the theory of ideas : Proclus, Syrianus and the ancient commentaries on the Parmenides	9
2	Syrianus on homonymy and forms	31
3	Ferrandus Hispanus on ideas	51
II	Platonic forms and concept formation
1	What is the systematic place of abstraction and concept formation in Plato's philosophy? : ancient and modern readings of Phaedrus 249 b-c	83
2	Aristotle's perceptual functions permeated by Platonist reason	99
3	The epistemic circle : Thomas Aquinas on the foundation of knowledge	119
4	The concept of "transcendens" in the Middle Ages : what is beyond and what is common	133
5	"A remark of genius and well worthy of Platonic principles" : Proclus' criticism of Porphyry's semantic theory	155
III	Theological concepts
1	Eternity and the concept of God in early stoicism	173
2	Kronos, summit of the intellective Hebdomad in Proclus' interpretation of the Chaldaean oracles	191
3	Making sense of Thomas Aquinas in the sixteenth century : Domingo de Soto on the natural desire to see God	211