Plotinus Ennead Ii 4 On Matter
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Plotinus Ennead Ii 4 On Matter
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Author : A. A. Long
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Plotinus Ennead Ii 4 On Matter written by A. A. Long and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Matter categories.
"A new translation, with an introduction and philosophical commentary, of Plotinus' Ennead II.4 On Matter, discussing the philosopher's view on intelligible beings and the nature of the physical world"--
Plotinus Ennead Ii 4 On Matter
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Author : A. A. Long
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Plotinus Ennead Ii 4 On Matter written by A. A. Long and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Matter categories.
In Ennead II.4 Plotinus investigates the question of what underlies the forms that constitute the contents of our minds and senses. Aristotle had called this substrate "matter," and Stoic philosophers followed suit. With a critical review of their notions, and reference to Plato's so-called Receptacle, Plotinus develops an account of matter that makes it a supremely negative entity. How he describes the indescribable, and how he justifies incorporeal matter's indispensability to bodies, are highlights of this tenaciously argued essay. A. A. Long translates and interprets Plotinus' treatise on the matter that underlies all physical and intelligible beings. With a wide-ranging introduction and probing analysis of details, he explains the intricate structure of the text. The book will appeal to everyone interested in the history of Platonism and ancient Greek theories of the world's ultimate principles.
Plotinus Ennead Ii 5 On What Is Potentially And What Actually
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Author : Cinzia Arruzza
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2015-07-31
Plotinus Ennead Ii 5 On What Is Potentially And What Actually written by Cinzia Arruzza and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-31 with Philosophy categories.
The term dunamis (potentiality) entered into the philosophical vocabulary with Plato, but it was with Aristotle that it acquired, together with energeia (actuality), the strong technical meaning that the two terms have maintained, with variations, throughout subsequent philosophical tradition. The significance of the notions of actuality and potentiality in Plotinus' thought can hardly be overstated. Throughout the Enneads, they are crucial to understanding the specific causality of intelligible realities and the relation of participation between intelligible and sensible realms. In Ennead II.5, Plotinus for the first time provides a systematic clarification of his peculiar use of these terms, through a sustained revision of Aristotle's own elaboration of the topic and of his terminology. The treatise discusses the different meanings of potentiality and actuality as well as the way each of them applies or does not apply to the sensible realm, to the intelligible realm, and to matter.
Plotinus Ennead Vi 4 Vi 5
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Author : Eyjolfur Strange Emilsson, Steven
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-14
Plotinus Ennead Vi 4 Vi 5 written by Eyjolfur Strange Emilsson, Steven and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-14 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Marsilio Ficino As Reader Of Plotinus The Enneads Commentary
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Author : Stephen Gersh
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-07-25
Marsilio Ficino As Reader Of Plotinus The Enneads Commentary written by Stephen Gersh and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-25 with Philosophy categories.
This book represents the first ever systematic philosophical study of Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on Plotinus’ ‘Enneads’ (first published in Florence, 1492), this work of Ficino being arguably as definitive for the Florentine thinker’s later work as the Platonic Theology was for his earlier. Publication of the present study uniquely illuminates the extent to which Plotinus had always been the crucial influence over Ficino’s revolutionary projects of introducing Platonic thought based on original Greek sources to western Europe, correcting certain features of late medieval and Renaissance Aristotelianism, and laying the foundations of a new Christian Platonism. The study can be read both as an independent introduction to Ficino’s later philosophy and as the complement to the first modern edition and translation of the Commentary on the 'Enneads' itself also by Stephen Gersh (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 2017-).
Plotinus Ennead Ii 9
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Author : Sebastian Gertz
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2017-03-28
Plotinus Ennead Ii 9 written by Sebastian Gertz and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with Philosophy categories.
How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus' Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of the soul's fall from intelligible reality-it is the evil outcome of a botched creation. Plotinus challenges this, and insists that the soul's creation of the world is the necessary consequence of its contemplation of the ideal forms. While the Gnostics claim to despise the visible universe, Plotinus argues that such contempt displays their ignorance of the higher realities of which the cosmos is a beautiful image.
Plotinus Ennead Iii 4 On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit
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Author : Wiebk-Marie Stock
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-03
Plotinus Ennead Iii 4 On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit written by Wiebk-Marie Stock and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Philosophy categories.
On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit is a lively and at times perplexing text combining general reflections on the nature of the soul with a discussion of the phenomenon of a personal guardian spirit. Plotinus wants to interpret Plato, and aims to integrate Plato's various statements about daimones into one comprehensive theory. This leads to some views that are, if not exotic, then at least strange on first encounter. However, a closer reading reveals that Plotinus is not interested in demonology per se. Instead, the central concern of the treatise are ideas about the soul, the self, and self-consciousness. Plotinus' explorations produce a theory of the mind as the agent and activity responsible for a person’s ethical choices and conduct of life. The demon emerges as a philosophical tool passed down from Plato, but adapted and rationalized to try to explain motivation to action, the impulse toward the ethical life, and even the various differences in human ethical and psychological constitution. This innovative theory is a response to a strong and ongoing current of thought in the philosophical tradition. The introduction offers an overview of ancient demonologies, starting with Homer and the Presocratics, and is followed by an in-depth examination of Plato, the Stoics, Plotinus, and later Neoplatonic developments. As such the book presents Plotinus’ specific rationalizing response to the idea of a guardian spirit in the context of ancient philosophical demonologies.
Plotinus And The Presocratics
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Author : Giannis Stamatellos
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Plotinus And The Presocratics written by Giannis Stamatellos and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Philosophy categories.
Filling the void in the current scholarship, Giannis Stamatellos provides the first book-length study of the Presocratic influences in Plotinus' Enneads. Widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus (204–270 AD) assimilated eight centuries of Greek thought into his work. In this book Stamatellos focuses on eminent Presocratic thinkers who are significant in Plotinus' thought, including Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the early Pythagoreans, and the early Atomists. The Presocratic references found in the Enneads are studied in connection with Plotinus' fundamental theories of the One and the unity of being, intellect and the structure of the intelligible world, the nature of eternity and time, the formation of the material world, and the nature of the ensouled body. Stamatellos concludes that, contrary to modern scholarship's dismissal of Presocratic influence in the Enneads, Presocratic philosophy is in fact an important source for Plotinus, which he recognized as valuable in its own right and adapted for key topics in his thought.
Plotinus On The Appearance Of Time And The World Of Sense
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Author : Deepa Majumdar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Plotinus On The Appearance Of Time And The World Of Sense written by Deepa Majumdar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Philosophy categories.
Plotinus (c.205-70) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, his work posthumously published by Porphyry and divided into six books, nine tractates each, called the Enneads. In this book Majumdar makes a valuable addition to the literature on his work, especially Ennead III.7(45)11-13 - in particular explaining Plotinus' cosmology using the genus-species model of soul, coordinating the literature on the appearance of time and the cosmos with that on the larger issue of Plotinian "emanation" and examining the role of tolma and the restless nature of soul in this conjoint appearance. This book investigates Plotinian "emanation," its laws of poiesis (contemplative making ) and the roles of nature, matter, logos, (rational formative principle) and contemplation and highlights the subtler details of Plotinus' cosmology by disentangling conceptual issues about the nature of soul and self ("we") and their impact on the process of generation of time and the cosmos.
The Enneads Of Plotinus Volume 1
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Author : Paul Kalligas
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-12
The Enneads Of Plotinus Volume 1 written by Paul Kalligas and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-12 with Philosophy categories.
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.