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Author | : Barrie Fleet |
Publisher | : Parmenides Publishing |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2012-06-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1930972784 |
Download PLOTINUS Ennead IV.8 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plotinus was much exercised by Plato's doctrines of the soul. In this treatise, at chapter 1 line 27, he talks of "e;the divine Plato, who has said in many places in his works many noble things about the soul and its arrival here, so that we can hope for some clarity from him. So what does the philosopher say? It is clear that he does not always speak with sufficient consistency for us to make out his intentions with any ease."e; The issue in this treatise is one that has puzzled students of Plato from ancient to modern times-and is indeed a popular topic for undergraduate essays even today: Why should the philosopher, who has ascended through a long and painful process of dialectic to "e;assimilation to the divine,"e; ever descend back into the body? Plotinus himself is said by Porphyry to have attained such a state of other-worldly transcendence on at least four occasions during his lifetime, so this was a very real and personal issue for him. In this treatise we see him grappling with it.
Author | : David J. Yount |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1472575237 |
Download Plotinus the Platonist Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this insightful new book David J. Yount argues, against received wisdom, that there are no essential differences between the metaphysics of Plato and Plotinus. Yount covers the core principles of Plotinian thought: The One or Good, Intellect, and All-Soul (the Three Hypostases), Beauty, God(s), Forms, Emanation, Matter, and Evil. After addressing the interpretive issues that surround the authenticity of Plato's works, Plotinus: The Platonist deftly argues against the commonly held view that Plotinus is best interpreted as a Neo-Platonist, proposing he should be thought of as a Platonist proper. Yount presents thorough explanations and quotations from the works of each classical philosopher to demonstrate his thesis, concluding comprehensively that Plato and Plotinus do not essentially differ on their metaphysical conceptions. This is an ideal text for Plato and Plotinus scholars and academics, and excellent supplementary reading for upper-level undergraduates students and postgraduate students of ancient philosophy.
Author | : James Wilberding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Download Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume dispels the idea that Platonism was an otherworldly enterprise which neglected the study of the natural world. Leading scholars examine how the Platonists of late antiquity sought to understand and explain natural phenomena: their essays offer a new understanding of the metaphysics of Platonism, and its place in the history of science.
Author | : Plotinus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Neoplatonism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Plotinus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Philosophy, Ancient |
ISBN | : |
Download Two Books on the Essence of Soul Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Stephen Mackenna |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2019-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781010412151 |
Download Plotinus on the Nature of the Soul, Being the Fourth Ennead, Translated From the Greek Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Eric D Perl |
Publisher | : Parmenides Publishing |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2015-12-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 193097292X |
Download PLOTINUS Ennead V.1 On the Three Primary Levels of Reality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plotinus' Treatise V.1 comes closer than any other to providing an outline of his entire spiritual and metaphysical system, and as such it may serve to some degree as an introduction to his philosophy. It addresses in condensed form a great many topics to which Plotinus elsewhere devotes extended discussion, including the problem of the multiple self; eternity and time; the unity-in-duality of intellect and the intelligible; and the derivation of intelligible being from the One. Above all, it shows that the so-called "e;three hypostases"e;-soul, intellect, and the One-are best understood not as a sequence of three things additional to one another, but as three levels of possession of the same content, so that each lower level-soul in relation to intellect and intellect in relation to the One-is an "e;image"e; and "e;expression"e; of its superior. Plotinus exhorts the human soul to overcome its alienation from its own true nature and its divine origin by first recognizing itself as superior to the body and the same in kind as the animating principle of the entire cosmos, and then discovering within itself the still higher levels of reality from which it derives: intellect and, ultimately, the One or Good, the supreme first principle of all things. To do so the soul must redirect its attention inward and upward to become aware of the divinity which is always within it but from which it is distracted by the clamor of the senses.
Author | : John Blumenthal H.J. Dillon |
Publisher | : Parmenides Publishing |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2015-03-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1930972709 |
Download PLOTINUS Ennead IV.3-4.29 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For Plotinus, the nature and status of the human soul is one of the central problems of philosophy. Ennead IV.3-4.29 constitutes his most penetrating enquiry into this topic, addressing the issues of the relation of the individual soul to the World Soul, the descent of the soul into body, its relations with that body, problems of personal identity and the nature of memory, sense perception, and the true seat of the emotions -many of which still have a resonance today. The treatise is an excellent example of Plotinus' distinctive method of enquiry: not dogmatic (though he is no sceptic), but worrying away at questions until he has uncovered their complexities to the best of his ability. Such a work requires detailed commentary, such as is provided here, to tease out fully the fascinating convolutions of his thought.
Author | : John N. Deck |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1967-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1442638184 |
Download Nature, Contemplation, and the One Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plotinus has been so highly regarded as a mystic that his importance as a philosopher has sometimes been thrown into eclipse. Yet neoplatonic philosophy lives in and through his works; indeed, his original development of Platonic and Aristotelian themes stands as a kind of summation of Greek philosophy as it first came to be known in the Christian West. In Nature, Contemplation, and the One, Professor Deck has undertaken a reappraisal of Plotinus' thought from the standpoint of a central doctrine in the Enneads, that of nature as contemplation. This new view enables him to show that the producing of the physical world by means of contemplation is an internally consistent doctrine with ramifications throughout the Plotinian view of being, causality, and the generation of a plural universe by the self-subsistent One. The result is a systematic account of Plotinus' major teachings, and a fresh view of their meaning and philosophic importance. Professor Deck has appended a new translation of the parts of the Enneads which are central to the doctrine of nature as contemplation, and his study proceeds by careful reference to the original texts. Students, philosophers, and historians will welcome this important and unusually clear-headed approach to a major figure in Western thought.
Author | : Plotinus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Neoplatonism |
ISBN | : |
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