Download Full eBooks in PDF
The Cambridge Companion To Plotinus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Cambridge Companion To Plotinus book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521476763
Sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' 'Neoplatonism'.
Author : Lloyd Gerson,James Wilberding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108805247
Plotinus stands at a crossroads in ancient philosophy, between the more than 600 years of philosophy that came before him and the new Platonic tradition. He was the first and perhaps the greatest systematizer of Plato's thought, and all later students of Plato in the following centuries approached Plato through him. This Companion from a new generation of ancient philosophy scholars reflects the current state of research on Plotinus, with chapters on topics including mathematics, fate and determinism, happiness, the theory of forms, categories of reality, matter and evil, and Plotinus' legacy. The volume offers an accessible overview of the thought of one of the pivotal figures in the history of philosophy, and reveals his importance as a thinker whose impact goes far beyond his importance as an interpreter of Plato.
Author : Lloyd Gerson,James Wilberding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108488341
A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.
Author : Lorelle D. Semley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107053915
A comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of ancient Greek ethical thought, investigating the figures, movements, and themes of this branch of philosophy.
Author : Pierre Hadot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226827131
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.
Author : David Sedley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521775035
Table of contents
Author : David Vincent Meconi,Eleonore Stump
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107025332
This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.
Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191524950
This is the ideal introduction to the thought of the third-century AD writer Plotinus, one of the greatest of ancient philosophers, now enjoying a major revival of interest. Dominic O'Meara has tailored the book carefully to the requirements of students: he writes clearly and authoritatively, assumes no knowledge of Greek or expertise in ancient philosophy, stays close to the texts, and relates Plotinus's ideas to modern philosophical concerns.
Author : Tarmo Toom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108491860
Presents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.
Author : Tom Stern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107161368
Provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of Nietzsche's philosophy, his key works and themes, his major influences and his legacy.
Author : James Hankins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827480
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.
Author : Kevin Corrigan
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Neoplatonism
ISBN : 1557532346
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.
Author : A. A. Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521446678
A 1999 Companion to Greek philosophy, invaluable for new readers, and for specialists.
Author : Giovanni R. F. Ferrari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9780521839631
This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.
Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501716966
"Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposition to Plato's. But it was not always thus."—from the Introduction In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the "harmony" of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity. He aims to show that the twentieth-century view that Aristotle started out as a Platonist and ended up as an anti-Platonist is seriously flawed. Gerson examines the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle based on their principle of harmony. In considering ancient studies of Aristotle's Categories, Physics, De Anima, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics, the author shows how the principle of harmony allows us to understand numerous texts that otherwise appear intractable. Gerson also explains how these "esoteric" treatises can be seen not to conflict with the early "exoteric" and admittedly Platonic dialogues of Aristotle. Aristotle and Other Platonists concludes with an assessment of some of the philosophical results of acknowledging harmony.