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Author : Geoffrey Scott Bowe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
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Download or read book Plotinus and the platonic metaphysical hierarchy written by Geoffrey Scott Bowe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barrie Fleet
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930972784
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead IV.8 written by Barrie Fleet and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Plotinus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141913355
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Enneads written by Plotinus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was convinced of the existence of a state of supreme perfection and argued powerfully that it was necessary to guide the human soul towards this state. Here he outlines his compelling belief in three increasingly perfect levels of existence - the Soul, the Intellect, and the One - and explains his conviction that humanity must strive to draw the soul towards spiritual transcendence. A fusion of Platonism, mystic passion and Aristotelian thought, The Enneads offers a highly original synthesis of early philosophical and religious beliefs, which powerfully influenced later Christian and Islamic theology.
Author : Eric D Perl
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 193097292X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead V.1 On the Three Primary Levels of Reality written by Eric D Perl and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415203524
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plotinus written by Lloyd P. Gerson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : David J. Yount
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ISBN 13 : 9781472594501
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plotinus the Platonist written by David J. Yount and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barrie Fleet
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930972962
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead IV.7 written by Barrie Fleet and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ennead IV.7 is a very early treatise (second according to Porphyry's chronological table), and unlike the many treatises devoted to attempts at untangling various issues Plotinus found problematic in Plato's thinking, this one presents the teachings of the other main schools current in Plotinus' day: the Stoics, Epicureans, Pythagoreans, and Peripatetics, all of whom presented soul as something material or as contingent upon material soul, and so as being neither truly immortal nor imperishable. It includes observations on many mainly Stoic doctrines on perception, memory, sensation, thought, virtue, powers of material bodies, mixture and reproduction (Chapters 1-83); on Pythagorean attunement (84); and on Peripatetic entelechy (85). In Chapters 9-10 Plotinus presents, in broad terms, Plato's doctrines on soul's immortality-mainly that of the individual soul, but a fortiori that of the soul of the cosmos. These chapters offer some of Plotinus' most powerful prose. He is not concerned to prove the soul's immortality-that was an uncontroversial tenet of Platonism, to be taken for granted. In this treatise Plotinus is laying down the indisputable foundations for his later writings.
Author : Eyjolfur Strange Emilsson, Steven
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930972148
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead VI.4 & VI.5 written by Eyjolfur Strange Emilsson, Steven and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ennead 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 : Luc Brisson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004374981
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Neoplatonic Demons and Angels written by Luc Brisson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of studies which examine the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers, but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles and Christian Neoplatonism.
Author : Jennifer Yhap
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 1575910691
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plotinus on the Soul written by Jennifer Yhap and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of interest to scholars in Plotinian studies, this book has yet a larger audience as the author investigates the full range of Plotinian epistemology from the originative production of the One, that is the Intellect, to the last declension of true being that is Nature, the lower part of world Soul. The style is fluid and appeals to scholars of ancient philosophy as well as more contemporary discussions in the field of metaphysics and epistemology."--BOOK JACKET.
