Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

Name: Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
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ISBN: 9780521476768

ISBN-10: 0521476763

ISBN-13: 9780521476768

Edition: 1996

Authors: Lloyd P. Gerson

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Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine. Here, sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' complex system, and examine his place in the history of philosophy.

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/13/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Introduction




Plotinus: the Platonic tradition and the foundation of Neoplatonism




Plotinus's metaphysics of the One




The hierarchical ordering of reality in Plotinus




On soul and intellect




Essence and existence in the Enneads




Plotinus on the nature of physical reality




Plotinus on matter and evil




Eternity and time




Cognition and its object Eyjolfur




Self-knowledge and subjectivity in the Enneads




Plotinus: body and soul




Human freedom in the thought of Plotinus




An ethic for the Late Antique sage




Plotinus and language




Plotinus and later Platonic philosophers on the causality of the first principle




Plotinus and Christian philosophy