Author : Plotinus
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : Plotinus
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : Plotinus
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2016-04-18
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ISBN : 9781532818646
Plotinus is primarily remembered for his teachings, which were collected by Porphyry into a volume called the Enneads. This work gives Plotinus's accounts of the religions and cults of his age. He was interested in the occult but only in a detached and speculative way. He was indifferent to traditional paganism but critical of the Gnostic Christian heretics who preached the mystical dualism of the divine, which he regarded as antiphilosophical, un-Greek, and emotional superstition. His own religious beliefs inclined toward the idea that one could achieve a spiritual union with the good (understood as the Platonic idea of a perfect realm of the ideal) through philosophic reflection.
Author : Plotinus
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Ethics
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Author : Plotinus
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Page : 158 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Philosophy
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Author : Plotinus
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Page : 548 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 1918
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Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134687788
First published in 1999. We are fortunate in possessing a fascinating document, The Life of Plotinus, written by the philosopher Porphyry, a pupil and associate of Plotinus for the last eight years of his life. The basic facts contained in this Life can be quickly recounted. Plotinus was likely a Greek born in Egypt in AD 205. It is possible, though, that he came from a Hellenized Egyptian or Roman family. In his 28th year, Plotinus discovered in himself a thirst for philosophy. This is a collection of his works- Ennead I contains treatises on what Porphyry calls “ethical matters”; Enneads II–III contain treatises on natural philosophy or cosmology, with some rationalizations for the inclusion of III. 4, 5, 7, and 8. Ennead IV concerns the soul; V Intellect or and VI being, numbers, and the One. The thematic unity of Enneads I, IV, and V is somewhat greater than the rest.
Author : Plotinus
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Page : pages
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Release : 1918
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Author : Plotinus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 1964-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780915144099
'The Essential Plotinus is a lifesaver. For many years my students in Greek and Roman Religion have depended on it to understand the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The translation is crisp and clear, and the excerpts are just right for an introduction to Plotionus's many-layered view of the world and humankind's place in it' - F. E. Romer, University of Arizona
Author : Barrie Fleet
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1930972784
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.
