Enneads of Plotinus – serie
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Plotinus Ennead V.1
On the Three Primary Levels of Reality
Av Eric D. Perl
Häftad, 2015
481 kr
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Plotinus’ Treatise V.1 comes closer than any other to providing an outline of his entire spiritual and metaphysical system, and as such it may serve to some degree as an introduction to his philosophy. It addresses in condensed form a great many topics to which Plotinus elsewhere devotes extended …
Plotinus Ennead II.5
On What Is Potentially and What Actually
Häftad, 2015
412 kr
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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 …
Plotinus Ennead III.4: on Our Allotted Guardian Spirit
Translation with an Introduction and Commentary
Häftad, 2020
481 kr
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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 …
Plotinus Ennead VI.9: on the Good or the One
Translation with an Introduction and Commentary
Häftad, 2020
412 kr
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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 …
PLOTINUS Ennead I.5: on Whether Well-Being Increases with Time
Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary
Häftad, 2024
412 kr
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In Ennead I.5 Plotinus attempts to navigate a well-trodden path of inquiry by directly responding to a wide spectrum of popular theories on human flourishing, and insisting emphatically that well-being belongs to the present moment. Indeed, Aristotle—with his insistence that well-being be measured …
Plotinus Ennead II.4: on Matter
On Matter
Av A. a. Long
Häftad, 2022
481 kr
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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 …
Plotinus Ennead VI.4 & VI.5
On the Presence of Being, One and the Same, Everywhere As a Whole
Häftad, 2015
412 kr
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Ennead VI.4–5, originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus’ most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intelligible and sensible realms, addressing and coalescing two central issues in Platonism: the nature of the soul–body relationship and the nature of …
Plotinus Ennead II.9: Against the Gnostics
Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary
Häftad, 2017
537 kr
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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 …
PLOTINUS Ennead VI.8: on the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One
On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary
Av Kevin Corrigan, John D. Turner
Häftad, 2017
537 kr
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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 …
Plotinus Ennead V.8
On Intelligible Beauty: Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary
Av Andrew Smith
Häftad, 2018
412 kr
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Plotinus’ Ennead V.8, originally part of a single work (with III.8, V.5, and II.9), provides the foundation for a positive view of the universe as an image of divine beauty against the Gnostic rejection of the world. Although it emphasizes the cosmic dimension of beauty, it is, as are most …
Plotinus Ennead IV.4.30-45 & IV.5
Problems Concerning the Soul
Häftad, 2015
537 kr
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Ennead IV.4.30–45 and IV.5 retrieves the unity in this last section of Plotinus’ treatise on Problems concerning the Soul. Combining translation with commentary, Gurtler enhances both the accuracy of the translation and the recovery of Plotinus’ often unsuspected originality. This is especially …
Plotinus Ennead IV.8
On the Descent of the Soul Into Bodies
Av Barrie Fleet, John M. Dillon m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
412 kr
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Plotinus was much exercised by Plato's doctrines of the soul. In this treatise, at chapter 1 line 27, he talks of "the divine Plato, who has said in many places in his works many noble things about the soul and its arrival here, so that we can hope for some clarity from him. So what does the …
Plotinus Ennead V.5
That the Intelligibles Are not External to the Intellect, and on the Good
Av Lloyd Gerson, John M. Dillon m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
412 kr
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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 “contents” of the Living Animal, the Forms, are …
Plotinus Ennead IV.3-4.29
Problems Concerning the Soul
Av John Dillon
Häftad, 2015
537 kr
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For Plotinus, the nature and status of the human soul is one of the central problems of philosophy. Ennead IV.3–4.29 constitutes his most penetrating enquiry into this topic, addressing the issues of the relation of the individual soul to the World Soul, the descent of the soul into body, its …
Plotinus Ennead I.6
On Beauty
Av Andrew Smith
Häftad, 2016
412 kr
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Ennead I.6 is probably the best known and most influential treatise of Plotinus, especially for Renaissance artists and thinkers. Although the title may suggest a work on aesthetics and thus of limited focus, this is far from the case. For it quickly becomes apparent that Plotinus’ main interest is …
PLOTINUS: Ennead IV.7: on the Immortality of the Soul
On the Immortality of the Soul
Av Barrie Fleet
Häftad, 2016
537 kr
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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’ …
Plotinus Ennead I.1
What Is the Living Thing? What Is Man? Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary
Häftad, 2017
481 kr
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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 “compound”), …
PLOTINUS Ennead I.8 on the Nature and Source of Evil
Häftad, 2025
483 kr
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Ennead I.8 was written not long before Plotinus’ death in 270 AD, at a time when he was particularly concerned with ethical issues. The treatise’ primary purpose is to argue that evil is not intrinsic to the soul, but since Plotinus always considers ethical issues within a metaphysical framework, …
Plotinus Ennead IV.9: on Whether All Souls Are One
Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary
Häftad, 2026
357 kr
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This short, early treatise undertakes to explain the controversial thesis that all souls—this includes individual human souls and the world-soul—are in some sense just one soul. Plotinus considers a number of objections that can be raised against the thesis. For instance, if the thesis is true, it …
