Ennead V1

Author : Stephen Clark
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 173353573X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead VI.9: On the Good or the One written by Stephen Clark and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early treatise is placed by Plotinus’ editor at the very end of the Enneads, as the culmination of his thought, matching Plotinus’ own last recorded instruction, “to bring the god in you back to the god in the all.” It is a cosmological sketch, arguing that the being of anything depends on its being unified by its orientation to its own good, and so also the being of Everything, the All. The One, or the Good, is at once the goal of all things both individually and collectively, and also the transcendent source of all that we experience, mediated through an intelligible order. But it is also, and perhaps more importantly, intended as a guide to the proper education and discipline of our own motives and experience. We are encouraged to put aside immediate sensory data, egoistic prejudice and sensual impulse, first to grasp at least a little of the intelligible order within which we all live, and at last to purge even those last intellectual attachments and experience what cannot be adequately described: the unity of being.

Author : Kathleen Raine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000747492
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blake & Tradition V1 written by Kathleen Raine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This is a collection of topics of A.W.Mellon Lectures of fine Arts stemming from 1962 on the works of Blake. This volume looks at Blake’s work in three sections; ‘The Northern Sun’, ‘The Myth of The Soul’ and ‘Zoas of Physical Life’. Includes works such as ‘Tireil’, Blake’s Cupid and Psyche’ and ‘Enion’

Author : Wiebk-Marie Stock
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1733535713
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PLOTINUS, Ennead III.4: On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit written by Wiebk-Marie Stock and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit is a lively and at times perplexing text combining general reflections on the nature of the soul with a discussion of the phenomenon of a personal guardian spirit. Plotinus wants to interpret Plato, and aims to integrate Plato's various statements about daimones into one comprehensive theory. This leads to some views that are, if not exotic, then at least strange on first encounter. However, a closer reading reveals that Plotinus is not interested in demonology per se. Instead, the central concern of the treatise are ideas about the soul, the self, and self-consciousness. Plotinus' explorations produce a theory of the mind as the agent and activity responsible for a person’s ethical choices and conduct of life. The demon emerges as a philosophical tool passed down from Plato, but adapted and rationalized to try to explain motivation to action, the impulse toward the ethical life, and even the various differences in human ethical and psychological constitution. This innovative theory is a response to a strong and ongoing current of thought in the philosophical tradition. The introduction offers an overview of ancient demonologies, starting with Homer and the Presocratics, and is followed by an in-depth examination of Plato, the Stoics, Plotinus, and later Neoplatonic developments. As such the book presents Plotinus’ specific rationalizing response to the idea of a guardian spirit in the context of ancient philosophical demonologies.

Author : John Shand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317494423
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Works of Philosophy v1 written by John Shand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays showcases the most important and influential philosophical works of the ancient and medieval period, roughly from 600 BC to AD 1600. Each chapter takes a particular work of philosophy and discusses its proponent, its content and central arguments. These are: Plato's Republic; Aristotle' Nichomachean Ethics; Lucretius' On the Nature of the Universe; Sextus Emperiicus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism; Plotinus' The Enneads; Augustine's City of God; Anselm's Proslogion; Aquinas' Summa Theologia; Duns Scotus' Ordinatio; William of Ockham's Summa Logicae .

Author : Gerard O'Daly
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930972997
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead I.1 written by Gerard O'Daly and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ennead I.1 is a succinct and concentrated analysis of key themes in Plotinus' psychology and ethics. It focuses on the soul-body relation, discussing various Platonic, Aristotelian, and Stoic views before arguing that there is only a soul-trace in the body (forming with the body a "e;compound"e;), while the reasoning soul itself is impassive and flawless. The soul-trace hypothesis is used to account for human emotions, beliefs, and perceptions, and human fallibility in general. Its problematic relation to our rational powers, as well as the question of moral responsibility, are explored. Plotinus develops his original and characteristic concept of the self or "e;we,"e; which is so called because it is investigated as something common to all humans (rather than a private individual self), and because it is multiple, referring to the reasoning soul or to the "e;living thing"e; composed of soul-trace and body. Plotinus explores the relation between the "e;we"e; and consciousness, and also its relation to the higher metaphysical entities, the Good, and Intellect.

Author : Paul Kalligas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691158266
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enneads of Plotinus written by Paul Kalligas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2: "An English-language commentary on the Fourth and Fifth Enneads of Plotinus"--

Author : Luca Castagnoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471722
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Memories written by Luca Castagnoli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.

Author : Kit Tempest-Walters
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004693548
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plotinus on Eternity and Time (Ennead III.7) written by Kit Tempest-Walters and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plotinus’ Ennead III.7 is a treatise concerning the journey of the human soul first descending into time and then reclaiming its original identity in eternity. The treatise also conceives eternity as the key which grants access to the forms, and time as the portal through which the soul enters the physical universe. Plotinus supports his analysis by drawing upon a rich philosophical tradition including the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans, Peripatetics and Pythagoreans. This book contains an extensive introduction, alongside the Oxford Classical Text of III.7, a translation, and a line-by-line commentary to guide the reader through the text.

Author : Alberto Bertozzi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004441026
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plotinus on Love: An Introduction to His Metaphysics through the Concept of Eros written by Alberto Bertozzi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plotinus on Love, Alberto Bertozzi argues that love is the origin, culmination, and regulative force of the double movement that characterizes Plotinus' metaphysics: the derivation of all reality from the One and the return of the soul to it.

Author : Ota Gál
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004510206
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plotinus on Beauty written by Ota Gál and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In this book, Ota Gál presents a new analysis of Plotinus' conception of beauty, beginning from a close reading of treatises I.6 and V.8, which link beauty with the unified multiplicity of Intellect. This account is subsequently placed in a hierarchical and structural context in VI.2 and VI.6 and connected to illumination in VI.7, enabling us to determine the meaning of the predicate “beauty” at different ontological levels. For Plotinus, beauty is ultimately the illuminated unity in multiplicity of Intellect, which, as the manifestation of the Good, simultaneously enables the soul’s ascent and threatens to bind the soul to itself.