Plotinus: Enneads VI, 1-5. Enneads VI
Author: Plotinus
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Published: 1966
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eyjolfur Strange Emilsson, Steven
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Published: 2015-01-14
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1930972148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnnead VI.4-5, originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus' most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intelligible and the sensible realms, addressing and coalescing two central issues in Platonism: the nature of the soul-body relationship and the nature of participation. Its main question is, How can soul animate bodies without sharing their extension? The treatise seems to have had considerable impact: it is much reflected in Porphyry's important work, Sententiae, and the doctrine of reception according to the capacity of the recipient, for which this treatise is the main source, resonated in medieval thinkers.
Author: Sarah Klitenic Wear
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1610412559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G. P. Goold
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780674994904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Svetla Slaveva-Griffin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-03-04
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0199703744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlotinus on Number studies the fundamental role which number plays in the architecture of the universe in Neoplatonic philosophy. This book draws attention to Platinus' concept as a necesscary and fundamental link between the Platonic and the late Neoplatonic theories of number.
Author: Barrie Fleet
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Published: 2012-06-06
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1930972784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlotinus 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: Giannis Stamatellos
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0791480313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFilling the void in the current scholarship, Giannis Stamatellos provides the first book-length study of the Presocratic influences in Plotinus' Enneads. Widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus (204–270 AD) assimilated eight centuries of Greek thought into his work. In this book Stamatellos focuses on eminent Presocratic thinkers who are significant in Plotinus' thought, including Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the early Pythagoreans, and the early Atomists. The Presocratic references found in the Enneads are studied in connection with Plotinus' fundamental theories of the One and the unity of being, intellect and the structure of the intelligible world, the nature of eternity and time, the formation of the material world, and the nature of the ensouled body. Stamatellos concludes that, contrary to modern scholarship's dismissal of Presocratic influence in the Enneads, Presocratic philosophy is in fact an important source for Plotinus, which he recognized as valuable in its own right and adapted for key topics in his thought.
Author: Plotinus
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Published: 1966
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