Lloyd P. Gerson argues that Plato was a Platonist and challenges fundamental assumptions about how Plato’s teachings have come to be understood.
De Providentia . The selections from Plotinus have also been expanded.
Plotinus was the most important philosopher in the centuries between Aristotle and Augustine and increase in his work is growing rapidly. Gerson gives a detailed account of Plotinus' arguements and examines them in their historical context.
In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the "harmony" of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity.