Plotinus
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Plotinus: Enneads II
By PlotinusPLOTINUS (A.D. 204/5-270), possibly of Roman descent, but certainly a Greek in education and environment, was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. Practically nothing is known of his early...
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Plotinus
By Eyjólfur K. EmilssonIn this engaging book, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of Plotinus' philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time.Beginning with a chapter-length overview of Plotinus' life and works which also ...
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Plotinus
By Eyjólfur K. EmilssonNor is Plotinus' idealism in Berkeley's sense according to which everything is either a cognizing subject or something ... Ennead II.9. (33) “Against the Gnostics.” Ennead III.4. (15) “On our allotted guardian spirit,” chapter 1.
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Plotinus: On Selfhood, Freedom and Politics
By Asger OusagerIn this volume, the latest in the Aarhus Studies on Mediterranean Antiquity, Asger Ousager grapples with the great neo-Platonist's conception of the individual. Is the individual free or determined?
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Plotinus: Road to Reality
By John M. Rist, Rist... freedom.13 When this has been done , we shall be completely free . Freedom then for Plotinus is not simply equivalent to the power of choice . Rather it is freedom from that necessity of choice which the passions impose . The soul that ...
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Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads
By Dominic J. O'Meara... freedom and necessity cannot be appropriately applied to what transcends our experience . While emphasizing the absolute transcendence of the One and its ineffability , Plotinus also shows how the analysis of human freedom , when ...
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Plotinus: On the Descent of the Soul
Plotinus: On the Descent of the Soul
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Plotinus: Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice
By Stephen R. L. Clark... solar paganism,24 and some solar rhetoric and celebrations were absorbed into Christian ritual and rhetoric: “thine ... Theology, with citations from Mochus of Sidon and Philo of Byblos, that solar theology is a Phoenician invention. 24 ...