Author : Jan Mark
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192752239
Isaac is an orphan. At fifteen years old, he has not yet found his niche on Erato. Unless he does so, he will face deportation - and certain death. Isaac has a plan to make his future safe. It involves importing Eleanor, a stone carver from a distant planet. But Eleanor is not what Isaac expects. She is not what anyone expects. She is free-thinking and defiant, and her presence could be more than this strange, dusty planet can bear...
Author : Roger Allan Clark
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 103917082X
“We do not set out to change the world. We start with ourselves and those near us. We start with our small community and its environment.” It is the summer of 1985, and nine cousins are spending their break helping to run their grandparent’s campground. Their arrival sparks a special feeling among their grandparents and their grandmother’s nephew, Ethan. They believe the number nine is powerful—an ennead—and that something magical will happen because of its existence. With the help of their grandparents, the children mature quickly into caring and competent young people as they take on responsibilities at the campground and learn how to care for their environment. The children also learn about their totem animals, and as they do, they meet and create deeper connections with these animal beings. As the group grows stronger, they transform in mind, spirit, and body—and become their spirit animals! This ability makes for an even greater connection to Mother Earth. The children, their grandparents, and Ethan commit to doing whatever they can to protect the earth, even if it means fighting against all odds. Blending elements of ancient philosophy, spirituality, and the natural environment, The Summer of the Ennead: A Tale of Awakening is about what might happen in a world where all life is valued, where caring for Mother Earth outweighs giving in to greed and selfishness, and where working together makes us stronger than working apart. Ultimately, it is a story of love, kindness, and hope.
Author : Kieran McGroarty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2006-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199287120
"This is the first full-length commentary on Plotinus' Ennead I.4 (46), a work written at a late stage in Plotinus' life when he was suffering from an illness that was shortly to prove fatal. The main concern of Ennead I.4 (46) is the good man and his pursuit of the good life. The treatise is therefore central to our understanding of Plotinus' ethical theory, and Kieran McGroarty's commentary seeks to explicate and elucidate it from a philosophical standpoint. The author's own English translation is printed on pages facing the Greek text (the editio minor of P. Henry and H. R. Schwyzer). Each chapter of the commentary begins with a short summary of the content followed by detailed discussion of paragraphs, lines, and, where necessary, individual words. McGroarty explains the structure of Plotinus' argument and identifies the sources he uses and critiques. The commentary confirms what Porphyry notes in his Life of Plotinus, that the Enneads are indeed full of hidden Stoic and Peripatetic doctrines. Appendices contain discussions of Plotinus' view on suicide, and his use of St. Ambrose's sermon On Jacob and the Good Life."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198751478
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 : Paul Kalligas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2014-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 140085251X
The first volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophy This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the first three of the six Enneads, as well as Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, a document in which Plotinus’s student—the collector and arranger of the Enneads—introduces the philosopher and his work. A landmark contribution to modern Plotinus scholarship, Paul Kalligas’s commentary is the most detailed and extensive ever written for the whole of the Enneads. For each of the treatises in the first three Enneads, Kalligas provides a brief introduction that presents the philosophical background against which Plotinus’s contribution can be assessed; a synopsis giving the main lines and the articulation of the argument; and a running commentary placing Plotinus’s thought in its intellectual context and making evident the systematic association of its various parts with each other.
Author : Stephen Andrew Missick
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 2020-10-10
Category :
ISBN :
What is it like to be a Chaplain serving in the United States Military during the war in Iraq? Stephen A Missick returned to Iraq for a second deployment, this time serving as a Chaplain.
Author : Plotinus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0141913355
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 : Paul Kalligas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691241821
The second volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophy This is the second volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers Enneads IV and V, which focus on two of the principal “hypostases” of Plotinus’s ontological system, namely the soul and the Intellect. Paul Kalligas provides an analytical exegesis of the arguments, along with an account of Plotinus’s principal sources, references to other parts of his work, and a systematic evaluation of his overarching theoretical aspirations. A landmark contribution to Plotinus scholarship, this is the most detailed and extensive commentary ever written for the whole of the Enneads.
Author : James P. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521774833
This book provides a thorough introduction to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It is designed as a textbook for university and college classes, and is also suitable for individuals learning ancient Egyptian on their own. It contains 26 lessons, exercises (with answers), a list of hieroglyphic signs, and a dictionary. It also includes a series of 25 essays on the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian history, society, religion and literature. The combination of grammar lessons and cultural essays allows users not only to read hieroglyphic texts but also to understand them. The book gives readers the foundation they need to understand the texts on monuments and to read the great works of ancient Egyptian literature in the original. It can also serve as a complete grammatical description of the classical language of ancient Egypt for specialists in linguistics and other related fields.
Author : Harold M. Hays
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004227490
The ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts form the oldest body of religious texts in the world. This book weds traditional philology to linguistic anthropology to associate them with two spheres of ritual action, mortuary cult and personal preparation for the afterlife.
