Plotinus Ennead Vi 9 On The Good Or The One
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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 On The Good Or The One Enneads Vi 9
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Author : P. A. Meijer
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam Classical Monographs
Release Date : 1992
Plotinus On The Good Or The One Enneads Vi 9 written by P. A. Meijer and has been published by Amsterdam Classical Monographs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Philosophy categories.
Amazing as it may be, to this day few commentaries on the treatises of Plotinus' Enneads are written. The classic ninth treatise (VI,9 in Porphyrius' order), for example, has hardly been studied. This treatise, however, is of vital importance, because it is in this work that for the first time in the Enneads, the One in its superform emerges and Plotinus dwells on the remarkable phenomenon of a 'mystical union' of the soul with the One. A thorough analysis of the argument and its development next to philosophical and philo-logical support will be welcome to any reader of this in-triguing but difficult treatise. These aims are pursued in the main part of Meijer's work, the commentary. The first part of the book, preceding the commentary, examines the philosophical history of the concept of the One and its status in the first eight treatises. This new approach to the problem of the One leads to striking conclusions. It appears that while Plotinus was writing these first eight treatises, the concept of the One developed from that of a Supreme Entity of a Mesoplatonian character, viz. the upper part of the mind, to One of a Superone above mind. This casts an entirely new light on the position of the One in Plotinus and that of the ninth treatise itself. The third part not only examines the mystical union as pictured in the ninth treatise, but also provides a full scale discussion of Plotinus' descriptions of this union in his en-tire work. The degree of unification, viz. the question whether a part of the mystic self remains intact during the unification, is a matter of vigorous scholarly debate. Meijer shows that, in spite of some inconsistencies in his doctrine about the union, one must accept that Plotinus basically considered the union as a complete absorption of the soul into the Supreme Entity.
Plotinus On The Good Or The One Enneads Vi 9
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Author : P. A. Meijer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Plotinus On The Good Or The One Enneads Vi 9 written by P. A. Meijer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with One (The One in philosophy) categories.
Ennead Vi 9
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Author : Plotinus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Ennead Vi 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 2020 with One (The One in philosophy) categories.
"A translation and commentary on Plotinus' Ennead VI.9 on the Good, being the treatise chosen by Porphyry as the culmination of Plotinus' Collected Works"--
Ennead Vi 6 9
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Author : Plotinus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Ennead Vi 6 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 1966 with History categories.
Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads). Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and the Stoics, whose writings he knew well but used critically. He is a unique combination of mystic and Hellenic rationalist. His thought dominated later Greek philosophy and influenced both Christians and Moslems, and is still alive today because of its union of rationality and intense religious experience. In his acclaimed edition of Plotinus, Armstrong provides excellent introductions to each treatise. His invaluable notes explain obscure passages and give reference to parallels in Plotinus and others.
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 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 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.
The Loeb Classical Library
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Author : G. P. Goold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Loeb Classical Library written by G. P. Goold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Neoplatonism categories.
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.