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Philosophers Speak For Themselves From Aristotle To Plotinus 6th Impr 1965
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Book Synopsis From Aristotle to Plotinus by : Thomas Vernor Smith
Download or read book From Aristotle to Plotinus written by Thomas Vernor Smith and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers Speak For Themselves In Two Volumes. Volume 1, From Thales To Plato; Volume 2, From Aristotle To Plotinus.
Download or read book From Aristotle to Plotinus written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Philosophers Speak for Themselves: From Aristotle to Plotinus by : Thomas Vernor Smith
Download or read book Philosophers Speak for Themselves: From Aristotle to Plotinus written by Thomas Vernor Smith and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Enneads written by Plotinus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was convinced of the existence of a state of supreme perfection and argued powerfully that it was necessary to guide the human soul towards this state. Here he outlines his compelling belief in three increasingly perfect levels of existence - the Soul, the Intellect, and the One - and explains his conviction that humanity must strive to draw the soul towards spiritual transcendence. A fusion of Platonism, mystic passion and Aristotelian thought, The Enneads offers a highly original synthesis of early philosophical and religious beliefs, which powerfully influenced later Christian and Islamic theology.
Book Synopsis PLOTINUS Ennead V.5 by : Lloyd Gerson
Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead V.5 written by Lloyd Gerson and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis PLOTINUS Ennead IV.7 by : Barrie Fleet
Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead IV.7 written by Barrie Fleet and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis PLOTINUS Ennead VI.9: On the Good or the One by : Stephen Clark
Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead VI.9: On the Good or the One written by Stephen Clark and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Essence of Plotinus by : Plotinus
Download or read book The Essence of Plotinus written by Plotinus and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Philosophers Speak for Themselves by : Marjorie Glicksman Grene
Download or read book Philosophers Speak for Themselves written by Marjorie Glicksman Grene and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Six Enneads of Plotinus by : Plotinus
Download or read book The Six Enneads of Plotinus written by Plotinus and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Six Enneads, sometimes abbreviated to The Enneads or Enneads, is the collection of writings of Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry (c. 270 AD). Plotinus is said to be the one of the founders of Neoplatonism, if not the first Neoplatonist. His work, through Augustine of Hippo, and therefore subsequent Christian and the Arab thinkers, has greatly influenced Western and Near-Eastern thought."
Book Synopsis Philosophers Speak for Themselves: From Thales to Plato by : Thomas Vernor Smith
Download or read book Philosophers Speak for Themselves: From Thales to Plato written by Thomas Vernor Smith and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Plotinus by : Plotinus
Download or read book The Philosophy of Plotinus written by Plotinus and published by New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts. This book was released on 1950 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Philosophers Speak for Themselves by : Thomas Vernor Smith
Download or read book Philosophers Speak for Themselves written by Thomas Vernor Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1956-08-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern thought and modes of living have been immeasurably influenced by the philosophers of the Enlightenment—men such as Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Newton, Leibniz, and Locke. Gathered together in this book and preceded by valuable biographical sketches are selections from the basic and most significant writings of each of these men.
Book Synopsis The Essence of Plotinus by : Stephen MacKenna
Download or read book The Essence of Plotinus written by Stephen MacKenna and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
Download or read book The Six Enneads written by Plotinus and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Six Enneads are the collection of writings of Plotinus. Plotinus was a student of Ammonius Saccas and they were founders of Neoplatonism. His work, through Augustine of Hippo, the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and several subsequent Christian and Muslim thinkers, has greatly influenced Western and Near-Eastern thought. Porphyry edited the writings of Plotinus in fifty-four treatises, which greatly vary in length and number of chapters, mostly because he split some original texts and joined others together to match this very number. Then he proceeded to set the fifty-four treatises in groups of nine or "Enneads". He also collected The Enneads into three volumes. The First Ennead deals with Human or ethical topics; the Second and Third Enneads are mostly devoted to cosmological subjects or physical reality; The Fourth concerns about Soul; the Fifth to knowledge and intelligible reality; and finally the Sixth has for topics Being and what is above it, the One or first principle of all.
Download or read book Ennead V.5 written by Plotinus and published by Parmenides Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A translation of Plotinus' Enneads V.5: "That the Intelligibles are not External to the Intellect, and on the Good," with an introduction and philosophical commentary. 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 treatise V.5 [32] sets out the case for the internality of Forms to the Intellect that the Demiurge is and argues for the necessary existence of an absolutely simple and transcendent first principle of all, the One or the Good"--
Book Synopsis Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision by : Pierre Hadot
Download or read book Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision written by Pierre Hadot and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-02-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's lucid translation—complete with a useful chronology and analytical bibliography—at last makes this book available to the English-speaking world. Hadot carefully examines Plotinus's views on the self, existence, love, virtue, gentleness, and solitude. He shows that Plotinus, like other philosophers of his day, believed that Plato and Aristotle had already articulated the essential truths; for him, the purpose of practicing philosophy was not to profess new truths but to engage in spiritual exercises so as to live philosophically. Seen in this light, Plotinus's counsel against fixation on the body and all earthly matters stemmed not from disgust or fear, but rather from his awareness of the negative effect that bodily preoccupation and material concern could have on spiritual exercises.
