The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

Author: Lloyd P. Gerson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-08-13

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1139825259

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Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine. He thought of himself as a disciple of Plato, but in his efforts to defend Platonism against Aristotelians, Stoics, and others, he actually produced a reinvigorated version of Platonism that later came to be known as 'Neoplatonism'. In this volume, sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' complex system. They place Plotinus in the history of ancient philosophy while showing that he was a founder of medieval philosophy.


The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

Author: Lloyd Gerson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-06-02

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 110848834X

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A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.


The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

Author: Lloyd P. Gerson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-08-13

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9780521476768

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Sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' 'Neoplatonism'.


The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy

The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy

Author: David Sedley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780521775038

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. A team of leading specialists surveys the developments of the period and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. There are also separate chapters on how philosophy in the ancient world interacted with religion, literature and science, and a final chapter traces the seminal influence of Greek and Roman philosophy down to the seventeenth century. Practical elements such as tables, illustrations, a glossary, and extensive advice on further reading make it an ideal book to accompany survey courses on the history of ancient philosophy. It will be an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the philosophical thought of this rich and formative period.


Reading Plotinus

Reading Plotinus

Author: Kevin Corrigan

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781557532343

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Plotinus was one of the most influential philosophers of the early Christian world, whose life was dedicated to the care of others and whose extensive treatises were recorded and preserved by his pupil and colleague Porphyry. This book provides a guide to reading and understanding Plotinus and covers many of the topics that he contemplated.


The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

Author: Tom Stern

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-18

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1107161363

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Provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of Nietzsche's philosophy, his key works and themes, his major influences and his legacy.


Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision

Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision

Author: Pierre Hadot

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2022-08-22

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0226827135

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Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's lucid translation—complete with a useful chronology and analytical bibliography—at last makes this book available to the English-speaking world. Hadot carefully examines Plotinus's views on the self, existence, love, virtue, gentleness, and solitude. He shows that Plotinus, like other philosophers of his day, believed that Plato and Aristotle had already articulated the essential truths; for him, the purpose of practicing philosophy was not to profess new truths but to engage in spiritual exercises so as to live philosophically. Seen in this light, Plotinus's counsel against fixation on the body and all earthly matters stemmed not from disgust or fear, but rather from his awareness of the negative effect that bodily preoccupation and material concern could have on spiritual exercises.


The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy

The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy

Author: James Hankins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-10-25

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1139827480

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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished international team of contributors, call these assumptions into question, emphasizing both the continuity with scholastic philosophy and the role of Renaissance philosophy in the emergence of modernity. They explore the ways in which the science, religion and politics of the period reflect and are reflected in its philosophical life, and they emphasize the dynamism and pluralism of a period which saw both new perspectives and enduring contributions to the history of philosophy. This will be an invaluable guide for students of philosophy, intellectual historians, and all who are interested in Renaissance thought.


Nature, Contemplation, and the One

Nature, Contemplation, and the One

Author: John N. Deck

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1967-12-15

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1442638184

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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.