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Author : John Bussanich
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004320710
Author : John R. Bussanich,Plotinus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004089969
Author : Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199281701
Plotinus (205-269 AD) is considered the founder of Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophical movement of late antiquity, and a rich seam of current scholarly interest. Whilst Plotinus' influence on the subsequent philosophical tradition was enormous, his ideas can also be seen as the culmination of some implicit trends in the Greek tradition from Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.Emilsson's in-depth study focuses on Plotinus' notion of Intellect, which comes second in his hierarchical model of reality, after the One, unknowable first cause of everything. As opposed to ordinary human discursive thinking, Intellect's thought is all-at-once, timeless, truthful and a direct intuition into 'things themselves'; it is presumably not even propositional. Emilsson discusses and explains this strong notion of non-discursive thought and explores Plotinus' insistence that this mustbe the primary form of thought.Plotinus' doctrine of Intellect raises a host of questions that Emilsson addresses. First, Intellect's thought is described as an attempt to grasp the One and at the same time as self-thought. How are these two claims related? How are they compatible? What lies in Plotinus' insistence that Intellect's thought is a thought of itself? Second, Plotinus gives two minimum requirements of thought: that it must involve a distinction between thinker and object of thought, and that the object itselfmust be varied. How are these two pluralist claims related? Third, what is the relation between Intellect as a thinker and Intellect as an object of thought? Plotinus' position here seems to amount to a form of idealism, and this is explored.
Author : Eric D Perl
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930972926
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 : John R. Bussanich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025678785
Author : John R. Bussanich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:631007216
Author : David J. Yount
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472575234
In this insightful new book David J. Yount argues, against received wisdom, that there are no essential differences between the metaphysics of Plato and Plotinus. Yount covers the core principles of Plotinian thought: The One or Good, Intellect, and All-Soul (the Three Hypostases), Beauty, God(s), Forms, Emanation, Matter, and Evil. After addressing the interpretive issues that surround the authenticity of Plato's works, Plotinus: The Platonist deftly argues against the commonly held view that Plotinus is best interpreted as a Neo-Platonist, proposing he should be thought of as a Platonist proper. Yount presents thorough explanations and quotations from the works of each classical philosopher to demonstrate his thesis, concluding comprehensively that Plato and Plotinus do not essentially differ on their metaphysical conceptions. This is an ideal text for Plato and Plotinus scholars and academics, and excellent supplementary reading for upper-level undergraduates students and postgraduate students of ancient philosophy.
Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521476763
Sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' 'Neoplatonism'.
Author : Mark J. Nyvlt
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739167755
This book emphasizes that Aristotle was aware of the philosophical attempt to subordinate divine Intellect to a prior and absolute principle. Nyvlt argues that Aristotle transforms the Platonic doctrine of Ideal Numbers into an astronomical account of the unmoved movers, which function as the multiple intelligible content of divine Intellect. Thus, within Aristotle we have in germ the Plotinian doctrine that the intelligibles are within the Intellect. While the content of divine Intellect is multiple, it does not imply that divine Intellect possesses a degree of potentiality, given that potentiality entails otherness and contraries. Rather, the very content of divine Intellect is itself; it is Thought Thinking Itself. The pure activity of divine Intellect, moreover, allows for divine Intellect to know the world, and the acquisition of this knowledge does not infect divine Intellect with potentiality. The status of the intelligible object(s) within divine Intellect is pure activity that is identical with divine Intellect itself, as T. De Koninck and H. Seidl have argued. Therefore, the intelligible objects within divine Intellect are not separate entities that determine divine Intellect, as is the case in Plotinus.-- Book Description from Website.
Author : Lloyd Gerson
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930972865
Platonists beginning in the Old Academy itself and up to and including Plotinus struggled to understand and articulate the relation between Plato's Demiurge and the Living Animal which served as the model for creation. The central question is whether "e;contents"e; of the Living Animal, the Forms, are internal to the mind of the Demiurge or external and independent. For Plotinus, the solution depends heavily on how the Intellect that is the Demiurge and the Forms or intelligibles are to be understood in relation to the first principle of all, the One or the Good. The treatise V.5 [32] sets out the case for the internality of Forms and argues for the necessary existence of an absolutely simple and transcendent first principle of all, the One or the Good. Not only Intellect and the Forms, but everything else depends on this principle for their being.
Author : D. M. Hutchinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424769
Examines the first theory of consciousness in Western philosophy, dispelling the dogma that consciousness studies begins with Descartes.
Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Plotinus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141913353
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 : Svetla Slaveva-Griffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199703746
Plotinus 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 : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134687794
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.