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Plotinus, Neoplatonism, & the Transcendence of the One

Author : Jens Halfwassen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733988995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Plotinus, Neoplatonism, & the Transcendence of the One written by Jens Halfwassen and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theandrites: Studies on Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism is the first book series to focus solely on philosophy in Byzantium and Christian Platonism (284-1453). This series encourages one to trace Platonic ideas and terminology as they move throughout the Eastern Roman Empire and the Byzantine Orthodox world. This tradition is an essential part of the history of ideas since the Greek texts studied in the Syriac and Arabic worlds originated in the Greek-speaking world during this time frame. Thus Syriac Christians and Arabic Muslims translated texts offered to them by Byzantine scholars and philosophers from the fourth century onward. The same is true during the Renaissance in Italy (fifteenth century), when for the first time since the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, the Latin-speaking world was given proper access to Greek philosophy in the original language by Byzantine thinkers such as Bessarion (1403-72) and George Gemistos Plethon (ca. 1355-1452/54). Book jacket.

Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought

Author : R. Baine Harris
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791452752
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought written by R. Baine Harris and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars relate Neoplatonism to contemporary science and philosophy.

The Enneads

Author : Plotinus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141913355
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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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.

Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought

Author : R. Baine Harris
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791452769
Total Pages : 438 pages
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Download or read book Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought written by R. Baine Harris and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars relate Neoplatonism to contemporary science and philosophy.

PLOTINUS Ennead IV.8

Author : Barrie Fleet
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930972784
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead IV.8 written by Barrie Fleet and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plotinus was much exercised by Plato's doctrines of the soul. In this treatise, at chapter 1 line 27, he talks of "e;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 philosopher say? It is clear that he does not always speak with sufficient consistency for us to make out his intentions with any ease."e; The issue in this treatise is one that has puzzled students of Plato from ancient to modern times-and is indeed a popular topic for undergraduate essays even today: Why should the philosopher, who has ascended through a long and painful process of dialectic to "e;assimilation to the divine,"e; ever descend back into the body? Plotinus himself is said by Porphyry to have attained such a state of other-worldly transcendence on at least four occasions during his lifetime, so this was a very real and personal issue for him. In this treatise we see him grappling with it.

The Knowing Hypostases and the Transcendent

Author : Plotinus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521069806
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book The Knowing Hypostases and the Transcendent written by Plotinus and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plotinus taught that there is a supreme, totally transcendent "One", containing no division, multiplicity or distinction; beyond all categories of being and non-being. His "One" "cannot be any existing thing", nor is it merely the sum of all things, but "is prior to all existents". Plotinus identified his "One" with the concept of 'Good' and the principle of 'Beauty'. His "One" concept encompassed thinker and object. Even the self-contemplating intelligence (the noesis of the nous) must contain duality. "Once you have uttered 'The Good,' add no further thought: by any addition, and in proportion to that addition, you introduce a deficiency." Plotinus denies sentience, self-awareness or any other action (ergon) to the One. Rather, if we insist on describing it further, we must call the One a sheer potentiality (dynamis) or without which nothing could exist. As Plotinus explains in both places and elsewhere, it is impossible for the One to be Being or a self-aware Creator God. Plotinus compared the One to "light", the Divine Nous (first will towards Good) to the "Sun", and lastly the Soul to the "Moon" whose light is merely a "derivative conglomeration of light from the 'Sun'". The first light could exist without any celestial body.The One, being beyond all attributes including being and non-being, is the source of the world--but not through any act of creation, willful or otherwise, since activity cannot be ascribed to the unchangeable, immutable One. Plotinus argues instead that the multiple cannot exist without the simple. The "less perfect" must, of necessity, "emanate", or issue forth, from the "perfect" or "more perfect". Thus, all of "creation" emanates from the One in succeeding stages of lesser and lesser perfection. These stages are not temporally isolated, but occur throughout time as a constant process. Later Neoplatonic philosophers, especially Iamblichus, added hundreds of intermediate beings as emanations between the One and humanity; but Plotinus' system was much simpler in comparison.The One is not just an intellectual conception but something that can be experienced, an experience where one goes beyond all multiplicity. Plotinus writes, "We ought not even to say that he will see, but he will be that which he sees, if indeed it is possible any longer to distinguish between seer and seen, and not boldly to affirm that the two are one."

Neoplatonism

Author : Pauliina Remes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492897
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Neoplatonism written by Pauliina Remes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Neoplatonism has long been studied by classicists, until recently most philosophers saw the ideas of Plotinus et al as a lot of religious/magical mumbo-jumbo. Recent work however has provided a new perspective on the philosophical issues in Neoplatonism and Pauliina Remes new introduction to the subject is the first to take account of this fresh research and provides a reassessment of Neoplatonism's philosophical credentials. Covering the Neoplatonic movement from its founder, Plotinus (AD 204-70) to the closure of Plato's Academy in AD 529 Remes explores the ideas of leading Neoplatonists such as Porphyry, lamblichus, Proclus, Simplicius and Damascius as well as less well-known thinkers. Situating their ideas alongside classical Platonism, Stoicism, and the neo-Pythagoreans as well as other intellectual movements of the time such as Gnosticism, Judaism and Christianity, Remes provides a valuable survey for the beginning student and non-specialist.

The Essential Plotinus

Author : Plotinus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780915144099
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Plotinus written by Plotinus and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Essential Plotinus is a lifesaver. For many years my students in Greek and Roman Religion have depended on it to understand the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The translation is crisp and clear, and the excerpts are just right for an introduction to Plotionus's many-layered view of the world and humankind's place in it' - F. E. Romer, University of Arizona

Modes of Knowledge and the Transcendental

Author : Henri Oosthout
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 906032319X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Modes of Knowledge and the Transcendental written by Henri Oosthout and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of Plotinus is usually depicted as a quest for the absolute, outside and beyond the world of human knowledge and experience. Yet in the late treatise Ennead 5.3 [49], Plotinus shows himself a philosopher of the transcendental, rather than of the transcendent. Starting from a critical analysis of the idea of self-knowledge, he develops a world-view in which central notions of his metaphysics are represented, not as different hypostases or transcendent beings, but as limiting cases of reality as we human beings know it. Fundamental to this world-view is Plotinus' assumption that a close analogy can be established between the psychological and the physical description of man.

PLOTINUS Ennead V.5

Author : Lloyd Gerson
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930972865
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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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.

The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism

Author : Jonathan Greig
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004439099
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism written by Jonathan Greig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The First Principle, Jonathan Greig offers a new examination of the Neoplatonic notion of the One and the respective causal frameworks behind the One in the two late Neoplatonists, Proclus and Damascius (5th–6th centuries A.D.).

The Significance of Neoplatonism

Author : R. Baine Harris
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438405901
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Significance of Neoplatonism written by R. Baine Harris and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays on the sources, interpretations, and influences of Neoplatonism.

Plotinus

Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415203524
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Plotinus written by Lloyd P. Gerson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought

Author : R. Baine Harris
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791452776
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought written by R. Baine Harris and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars relate Neoplatonism to contemporary social theory, aesthetics, and spirituality.

The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism

Author : John J. Cleary
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789061868477
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism written by John J. Cleary and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Essence of Plotinus

Author : * Plotinus
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556356145
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Plotinus written by * Plotinus and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plotinus' Legacy

Author : Stephen Gersh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108415288
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Plotinus' Legacy written by Stephen Gersh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a series of case-studies from across European philosophical traditions, this book traces the influence of Neoplatonism over the centuries.