Plotinus Ennead Iv 3 4 29
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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 Ennead V 5
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Author : Lloyd Gerson
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2013-07-15
Plotinus Ennead V 5 written by Lloyd Gerson and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Plotinus Ennead Iv 7
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Author : Barrie Fleet
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2016-03-30
Plotinus Ennead Iv 7 written by Barrie Fleet and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-30 with Philosophy categories.
Ennead IV.7 is a very early treatise (second according to Porphyry's chronological table), and unlike the many treatises devoted to attempts at untangling various issues Plotinus found problematic in Plato's thinking, this one presents the teachings of the other main schools current in Plotinus' day: the Stoics, Epicureans, Pythagoreans, and Peripatetics, all of whom presented soul as something material or as contingent upon material soul, and so as being neither truly immortal nor imperishable. It includes observations on many mainly Stoic doctrines on perception, memory, sensation, thought, virtue, powers of material bodies, mixture and reproduction (Chapters 1-83); on Pythagorean attunement (84); and on Peripatetic entelechy (85). In Chapters 9-10 Plotinus presents, in broad terms, Plato's doctrines on soul's immortality-mainly that of the individual soul, but a fortiori that of the soul of the cosmos. These chapters offer some of Plotinus' most powerful prose. He is not concerned to prove the soul's immortality-that was an uncontroversial tenet of Platonism, to be taken for granted. In this treatise Plotinus is laying down the indisputable foundations for his later writings.
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 Vi 8
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Author : Kevin Turner Corrigan, John
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-17
Plotinus Ennead Vi 8 written by Kevin Turner Corrigan, John and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-17 with Philosophy categories.
Ennead VI.8 gives us access to the living mind of a long dead sage as he tries to answer some of the most fundamental questions we in the modern world continue to ask: are we really free when most of the time we are overwhelmed by compulsions, addictions, and necessities, and how can we know that we are free? Can we trace this freedom through our own agency to the gods, to the Soul, Intellect, and the Good? How do we know that the world is meaningful and not simply the result of chance or randomness? Plotinus' On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One is a groundbreaking work that provides a new understanding of the importance and nature of free human agency. It articulates a creative idea of agency and radical freedom by showing how such terms as desire, will, self-dependence, and freedom in the human ethical sphere can be genuinely applied to Intellect and the One while preserving the radical inability of all metaphysical language to express anything about God or gods.
Plotinus Ennead I 1
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Author : Gerard O'Daly
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2017-12-28
Plotinus Ennead I 1 written by Gerard O'Daly and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-28 with Philosophy categories.
Ennead I.1 is a succinct and concentrated analysis of key themes in Plotinus' psychology and ethics. It focuses on the soul-body relation, discussing various Platonic, Aristotelian, and Stoic views before arguing that there is only a soul-trace in the body (forming with the body a "e;compound"e;), while the reasoning soul itself is impassive and flawless. The soul-trace hypothesis is used to account for human emotions, beliefs, and perceptions, and human fallibility in general. Its problematic relation to our rational powers, as well as the question of moral responsibility, are explored. Plotinus develops his original and characteristic concept of the self or "e;we,"e; which is so called because it is investigated as something common to all humans (rather than a private individual self), and because it is multiple, referring to the reasoning soul or to the "e;living thing"e; composed of soul-trace and body. Plotinus explores the relation between the "e;we"e; and consciousness, and also its relation to the higher metaphysical entities, the Good, and Intellect.
Devil S Grinder
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Author : Mircea Ionescu Quintus
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2013-08-08
Devil S Grinder written by Mircea Ionescu Quintus and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-08 with Poetry categories.
This collection of Poems-offered as a dual-language English-Romanian edition-together with a critical Expose by the translators, a Preface by the author, a Chronicle and Biography, conveys to the reader a very personal tale of a human tragedy of unspeakable horrors the author endured alongside tens of thousands of other political prisoners at forced labor camps, so-called "e;Gulags"e; at the Danube-Black Sea Canal (the "e;Canal"e;) during Romania's Communist regime after WWII. This book is a Zeitzeugnis-a witness of the time-an account not only of a reprehensible past time but a very pertinent manifest for hope for younger generations everywhere in the world. This book is based on Moara Dracilor by Mircea Ionescu-Quintus, published in Romanian in 1999 by Editura Ion Creanga S.A., Romania. The new title is a dual-language (English-Romanian) edition, with a new Foreword, a new Preface by the author, a new About the Translators, seven additional Poems, three new Illustrations, and a new author Biography.It is a must-read for students and anyone interested in politics, political history, Eastern-European history, Communist regimes, Romania, Romanian history, Romanian politics, History of Political Oppression, Testimonial Literature, Poetry, Eastern-European poetry, Romanian poetry, and socio-political poetry.
Plotinus Ennead Vi 9 On The Good Or The One
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Author : Stephen Clark
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-30
Plotinus Ennead Vi 9 On The Good Or The One written by Stephen Clark and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with Philosophy categories.
This early treatise is placed by Plotinus’ editor at the very end of the Enneads, as the culmination of his thought, matching Plotinus’ own last recorded instruction, “to bring the god in you back to the god in the all.” It is a cosmological sketch, arguing that the being of anything depends on its being unified by its orientation to its own good, and so also the being of Everything, the All. The One, or the Good, is at once the goal of all things both individually and collectively, and also the transcendent source of all that we experience, mediated through an intelligible order. But it is also, and perhaps more importantly, intended as a guide to the proper education and discipline of our own motives and experience. We are encouraged to put aside immediate sensory data, egoistic prejudice and sensual impulse, first to grasp at least a little of the intelligible order within which we all live, and at last to purge even those last intellectual attachments and experience what cannot be adequately described: the unity of being.
Plotinus Enneads Iv 1 9
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Author : Plotinus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Plotinus Enneads Iv 1 9 written by Plotinus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Intellect categories.
Plotinus On The Soul
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Author : Damian Caluori
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-25
Plotinus On The Soul written by Damian Caluori and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-25 with History categories.
The first comprehensive study of Plotinus' theory of the soul for half a century.