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Plotinus on the origin of matter: An exercise in the interpretation of the Enneads (Elenchos) by Denis O'Brien, 1991 Plotinus on the Good or the One (Enneads VI, 9 : An Analytical Commentary) by P. A. Meijer, 1992-05-01 Collected Writings of Plotinus (Thomas Taylor Series) by Plotinus, 1994-05 Plotinus (Arguments of the Philosophers) by Lloyd P. Gerson, 1998-05-06 Plotinus on Sense-Perception: A Philosophical Study by Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson, 2008-06-19 Thus Spoke Plotinus by Students' Academy, 2010-07-02 Plotinus III by A. H. Armstrong (translated by), 1967-01-01 Plotinus On The Beautiful And On Intelligible Beauty by Plotinus, 2010-05-22 Plotinus (The Routledge Philosophers) by Emilsson Eyjólfur, 2004-04-26 PLOTINUS by A.H. Armstrong, 1962 Plotinus on the Appearance of Time and the World of Sense by Deepa Majumdar, 2007-05-14 Select works of Plotinus: translated from the Greek with an introduction containing the substance of Porphyry's life of Plotinus by Plotinus Plotinus, Thomas Taylor, et all 2010-08-28 Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus' Enneads (Suny Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy) (S U N Y Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy) by Giannis Stamatellos, 2008-01-03 The Six Enneads of Plotinus (Forgotten Books) by Plotinus, 2007-12-28

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41. Cool Quotes - Plotinus
    plotinus. alone to the Alone (phuge monou pros monon) is in the last line of plotinus, Enneads VI.9, On the Good or the One. Armstrong translates it as  
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    Extractions: "alone to the Alone" (phuge monou pros monon) is in the last line of Plotinus, Enneads VI.9, "On the Good or the One." Armstrong translates it as: "This is the life of gods and of godlike and blessed men, deliverance from the things of this world, a life which takes no delight in the things of this world, escape in solitude to the solitary." His footnote reads: These last words, in the common translation "flight of the alone to the Alone," are the only words of Plotinus at all generally known and remembered. He uses the "alone to the alone" formula elsewhere in the Enneads when speaking of our encounter with the Good (I.6.7.8; VI.7.34.7). It is in fact a fairly commonplace Greek phrase, generally, but not always, in a religious context...... It does tell us something important about the mysticism of Plotinus, but can be misleading if considered in isolation from the rest of his writing about the spiritual life and Porphyry's account of Plotinus was he knew him...... David Fideler

42. Critical Theory: Plotinus
    Back to List plotinus (204?270 AD) LINKS The Six Enneads by plotinus http//classics.mit.edu/plotinus/enneads.html BIOGRAPHY plotinus (204?-270 AD).  
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    Extractions: MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); Plotinus (204?-270 A.D.). Reared by Roman parents in the Egyptian city of Lycopolis, Plotinus is considered the greatest of the Neoplatonists. Plotinus derived his philosophical thought from the metaphysics of Plato as well as from the Gnostics of Alexandria and the Eastern Mystery Cults of Dionysus or Mithras. Like Plato, Plotinus posits an Ideal world he calls

43. Plotinus - The Enneads
    plotinus – The Enneads. plotinus (205270 CE) was the founder of Neoplatonism. He was born in Lycopolis, Egypt, and became interested  
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    Extractions: Plotinus – The Enneads Plotinus (205-270 CE) was the founder of Neoplatonism. He was born in Lycopolis, Egypt, and became interested in philosophy when he was 28. He studied philosophy in Alexandria under Ammonius Saccus (175-250 CE), before traveling to Persia in 243, and settling in Rome in 244, at the age of 40. In Rome, he taught philosophy, and became a friend of the Emperor Gallienus. Plotinus tried to persuade Gallienus to build a city called Platonopolis which was to be governed according to the model of Plato’s Republic , but the plan eventually had to be abandoned. Plotinus lived in Rome from 244 to 268, and produced his philosophical writings from 253 to 270. He died in 270, in Campania, Italy. After his death, Plotinus’s writings were edited by his student Porphyry, who arranged them into six groups, each consisting of nine treatises, making a total of fifty-four treatises (the title Enneads refers to these "groups of nine," and is derived from the Greek word for nine

44. Studies In Comparative Philosophy By Swami Krishnananda
    plotinus. plotinus, the celebrated mystic, comes highly developed mysticism. To plotinus, God or the Absolute is the All. The diversities  
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    Extractions: Studies in Comparative Philosophy by Swami Krishnananda The Divine Life Society Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India Contents of Book Table of Contents Introduction Socrates Plato Aristotle Plotinus Rene Descartes Benedict Spinoza G.W. Leibniz John Locke George Berkeley David Hume Immanual Kant G.W.F. Hegel Arthur Schopenhauer Friedrich Nietzsche William James Henri Bergson Samuel Alexander Alfred North Whitehead The Neo-Hegelians Importance of Study of Western Thought Philosophy and Life PLOTINUS Parinamavada Plotinus introduces into his system the Ideas of Plato, which are the archetypes of all things in the universe, and which are thoughts in the Mind of God. Only Plotinus would rise above Plato in not making God's Thought dependent on the ideas. For God is absolutely independent. Rather Plotinus makes the Platonic Ideas what the ideative processes are in the Ishvara of the Vedanta. The whole world is for Plotinus what the Vedanta means by Ishvara-srishti , or cosmic manifestation, as distinguished from Jivasrishti or individual imagination.

45. Salvation And The Human Ideal: Plato, Plotinus, Origen
    Salvation and the Human Ideal Plato, plotinus, Origen1. By Edward Moore. proteus28@juno.com. Introduction. When desire. plotinus.  
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    Extractions: Salvation and the Human Ideal: Plato, Plotinus, Origen proteus28@juno.com When we study Platonism, we are studying the history of the realization of an ideal. This ideal is the virtuous human being; and the history of this ideal is a salvation history. Philosophy did not begin with Platonism, but it did attain a self-knowledge, a reflective understanding of what it means to love wisdom, through the influence of the doctrines and problems (mostly through the problems) introduced by Plato. The Pre-Socratic philosophers were called phusikoi , which means that they were concerned primarily with the natural world. Aristotle, in Book A of the Metaphysics , tells us that this concern with the natural world was born of a certain awe or wonderment experienced by the observant, thinking human being, and that this awe is the cause or origin of philosophy. However, it is my view that the guiding spirit of the philosophical enterprise, from the very beginning (and even, perhaps, before what we call philosophy came upon the scene of history) was a concern with and an anxiety over the status of the human being in this ‘wondrous’ world. Nature is only awesome because it affects a being that is, at base, capable of being affected – and of

46. Plotinus (205-270), The Founder Of Neoplatonism
    Up. plotinus (205270), the founder of Neoplatonism a brief overview (re-edited 4/29/04). plotinus having made contributions equal or perhaps greater.  
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    Extractions: Matrix of Mnemosyne Bookstore Plotinus (205-270), the founder of Neoplatonism... a brief overview (re-edited 4/29/04) Enneads which gave Plotinus his fame. Plotinus' theories were primarily on the metaphysical meaning of life and he put them forth in a systemized manner Plato introduced some 500 years earlier. His thoughts centered almost exclusively on the metaphysical aspects of the cosmos and life itself and thus tried to identify the contributing factors and systematically reconstruct how each would interact with each other. In other words, he was trying to create a model of creation and how it relates to humans. After he identified what he believed made up the psychological cosmos and human psyche, he then rationalized how they interacted with each other and thus developed his hierarchy scheme consisting of three parts (1) the One (God), (2) intelligence and (3) the soul Plotinus was a firm believer in the human soul, and that the soul plays an equal part in the scheme of things. He also believed that intelligence (reason) held the highest position within the human soul, as if an entity unto itself. He refers to the Almighty as

47. Plotinus - Encyclopedia Article About Plotinus. Free Access, No Registration Nee
    encyclopedia article about plotinus. plotinus in Free online English dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia. Provides plotinus. Word  
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    Extractions: Click the link for more information. ) is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism ) is an ancient school of philosophy beginning in the 3rd century A.D. It was based on the teachings of Plato and Platonists; but it interpreted Plato in many new ways, such that Neoplatonism was quite different from what Plato taught, though many Neoplatonists would not admit the distinction. Neoplatonism began with the philosopher Plotinus, though Plotinus claimed to have received his teachings from Ammonius Saccas, an illiterate dock-worker in Alexandria. His most important work was the Six Enneads, in which he explains his philosophy.

48. Plotinus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
    2001. plotinus. To study the philosophies of India and Persia, plotinus in 242 traveled in the Eastern expedition of Gordian III, the Roman emperor.  
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    Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference Columbia Encyclopedia PREVIOUS NEXT ... BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Plotinus (pl t s) ( KEY Porphyry wrote a biography of him and was responsible for the arrangement of his works, which were written after 253, into six Enneads, or groups of nine treatises.

49. PLOTINUS
    plotinus (AD 204270), the most important representative of Neoplatonism, was born of Roman parents at Lycopolis in Egypt. At Alexandria he attended. plotinus.  
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    Extractions: PLOTINUS Under Ammonius Plotinus became imbued with the eclectic spirit of the Alexandrian school. Having accepted the Platonic metaphysical doctrine, he applied to it the Neo-Pythagorean principles and the Oriental doctrine of Emanation (q.v.). The results of this introspective mysticism were collected by him in a series of fifty-four (originally forty-eight) treatises, arranged in six Enneads, which constitute the most authoritative exposition of Neoplatonism. This arrangement is probably due to Porphyry, to whose editorial care they were consigned. There was also another ancient edition by Eustochius, but all the existing MSS. are based on Porphyrys edition. The Enneades of Plotinus were first made known in the Latin translation of Marsilio Ficino (Florence, 1492) which was reprinted at Basel in 1580, with the Greek text of Petrus Perna. Later editions by Creuzer and Moser ( Didot Series, 1855), A. Kirchhoff (1856), H. F. MUller (1878-1880), R. Volkmann (1883-1884). There is an English translation of selected portions by Thomas Taylor, re-edited in Bohns Philosophical Library (1895, with introduction and bibliography by G. R. S. Mead). On Plotinus generally see article in SuIdas; Eunapius vitae sophistarum; and above all the Vita Plotini by his pupil Porphyry. Among modern works, see the treatises on the school of Alexandria by J. F. Simon, i. (1845), and E. Vacherot (1846); A. Richter, Ueber Leben und Geistesentwicklung des Plotin (Halle, 1864-1867); T. Whittaker, The Neoplatonists (1901); A. Drews, Plotin und der Untergang der antiken Weltanschauung (1907); E. Caird, Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers (1904), ii. 210257; Rufus M. Jones, Studies in Mystical Religion (1909). A detailed account of Plotinuss philosophical system and an estimate of its importance will be found in the article NEOFLATONISM, the works above referred to, and the histories of philosophy. For his list of categories, see CATEGORIES; also LoGos; MYSTICISM; MAGIC.

50. Plotinus --  Encyclopædia Britannica
    plotinus Encyclopædia Britannica Article. To cite this page MLA style plotinus. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.  
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51. Plotinus On Magic
    Apparently this is the passage in question ( Enneads, IV, iv, 40) But magic spells; how can their efficacy be explained? By the  
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    Extractions: Apparently this is the passage in question ( Enneads, IV, iv, 40): But magic spells; how can their efficacy be explained? By the reigning sympathy and by the fact in Nature that there is an agreement of like forces and an opposition of unlike, and by the diversity of those multitudinous powers which converge in the one living universe. There is much drawing and spell-binding dependent on no interfering machination; the true magic is internal to the All, its attractions and, not less, its repulsions. Here is the primal mage and sorcerer- discovered by men who thenceforth turn those same ensorcellations and magic arts upon one another. Love is given in Nature; the qualities inducing love induce mutual approach: hence there has arisen an art of magic love-drawing whose practitioners, by the force of contact implant in others a new temperament, one favouring union as being informed with love; they knit soul to soul as they might train two separate trees towards each other. The magician too draws on these patterns of power, and by ranging himself also into the pattern is able tranquilly to possess himself of these forces with whose nature and purpose he has become identified. Supposing the mage to stand outside the All, his evocations and invocations would no longer avail to draw up or to call down; but as things are he operates from no outside standground, he pulls knowing the pull of everything towards any other thing in the living system. The tune of an incantation, a significant cry, the mien of the operator, these too have a natural leading power over the soul upon which they are directed, drawing it with the force of mournful patterns or tragic sounds- for it is the reasonless soul, not the will or wisdom, that is beguiled by music, a form of sorcery which raises no question, whose enchantment, indeed, is welcomed, exacted, from the performers. Similarly with regard to prayers; there is no question of a will that grants; the powers that answer to incantations do not act by will; a human being fascinated by a snake has neither perception nor sensation of what is happening; he knows only after he has been caught, and his highest mind is never caught. In other words, some influence falls from the being addressed upon the petitioner- or upon someone else- but that being itself, sun or star, perceives nothing of it all.

52. Plotinus
    plotinus de keten van het zijn 6 mei 1998 menukaart porphyrius plutarchus plotinus Volgens Porphyrius schaamde plotinus zich voor zijn lichaam.  
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    Extractions: The question is not whether a thing is inferior to something else but whether in its own Kind it suffices to its own part; universal equality there cannot be. Man is singled out for condemnation when he does evil; and this with justice. For he is no mere thing made to rigid plan; his nature contains a Principle apart and free.

53. W. B. Yeats And "A Vision": Plotinus And The Principles
    The hierarchy and interconnection of the Principles are partly elucidated through the correspondences which Yeats discerned with plotinus’s concept of the  
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    Extractions: The Four Principles and Neo-Platonic Philosophy The hierarchy and interconnection of the Principles are partly elucidated through the correspondences which Yeats discerned with Plotinus’s concept of the Authentic Existents, taken from MacKenna’s translation of the Enneads . The first proper study of this relationship was put forward by Rosemary Puglia Ritvo in “ A Vision B: The Plotinian Metaphysical Basis”, and a shorter piece on “Plotinus’s Third Ennead and Yeats’s A Vision Plotinus proposes three Hypostases of God, each progressively ‘inferior’ but still fully divine: the One or Absolute, the Divine-Mind or Intellectual-Principle and the All-Soul or Universal Soul, The One is both the source and the goal of existence, but ‘transcends all the knowable. . . . even the quality of Being’. The Intellectual-Principle ( nous ) is the mediating, highest knowable reality, which acts and which MacKenna sometimes finds it more appropriate to denominate by ‘the term spirit’. (Conversely, when Yeats asked his Instructors, concerning the Principle of Spirit , ‘would mind do instead of "spirit"’, he was told that a better alternative would be ‘The greek Nous — mind is wrong’ [ YVP The All-Soul, the principle of Life, has two aspects, the first of which contemplates the higher Hypostases as ‘the Celestial Soul’ and the second of which, ‘the Nature-Looking and Generative Soul’, works ‘to generate or fashion the lower, the material Universe upon the model of the Divine-Thoughts, the ‘Ideas’ laid up in the Divine-Mind: this lower principle of the Soul is sometimes called the Logos of the Universe, or the ‘Reason-Principle’ of the Universe’.

54. Plotinus
    Spot philosophy plotinus - part of spot wot websites directory, 23 May. philosophy - plotinus. Search plotinus The pantheistic msyticism of plotinus.  
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55. ON THE DEMONOLOGY OF PLOTINUS
    ON THE DEMONOLOGY OF plotinus. Marju Lepajõe It is plotinus likewise. All 54 treatises of plotinus have not attracted equal attention.  
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    Extractions: It is a common fact that the impact of the philosophy of Plotinus (204/5 - 270) on the Eastern and Western philosophy as well as to the Christian theology has been immense. Considering that it seems paradoxical that the philosophy of Plotinus has been undertaken systematically and perhaps even comprehensive in the last 20 years only. During this short period of time more research papers have been written about him than during the whole one and a half millennium following his death. The flow broke loose after the final completion of the new text-critical 3-volumed issue of Plotinus' Enneads by Paul Henry and Hans-Rudolph Schwyzer (1973) , which is "undoubtedly the most important contribution to Plotinian scholarship since Porphyry published the Enneads and which has been called with a certain specific hauteur the first scientific edition of Plotinus' works . The Lexicon Plotinianum compiled by John Sleeman and Gilbert Pollet has contributed to the study of Plotinus likewise. All 54 treatises of Plotinus have not attracted equal attention. Some treatises have been constantly reissued with new comments attached, and quite frequently two separate commentaries are issued concurrently. At the same time, there are a small number of treatises that have attracted little or no attention at all, not to mention the republications with comments

56. First Of "The Six Enneads" By Plotinus
    he says of the text, and always indicates a reference to Plato, whose name does not appear in the translation except where it was written by plotinus. SM.  
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    Extractions: . Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat? Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending. And what applies to the affections applies also to whatsoever acts, physical or mental, spring from them. We have, therefore, to examine discursive-reason and the ordinary mental action upon objects of sense, and enquire whether these have the one seat with the affections and experiences, or perhaps sometimes the one seat, sometimes another. And we must consider also our acts of Intellection, their mode and their seat. And this very examining principle, which investigates and decides in these matters, must be brought to light. Firstly, what is the seat of Sense-Perception? This is the obvious beginning since the affections and experiences either are sensations of some kind or at least never occur apart from sensation. . This first enquiry obliges us to consider at the outset the nature of the Soul- that is whether a distinction is to be made between Soul and Essential Soul [between an individual Soul and the Soul-Kind in itself]. * * All matter shown in brackets is added by the translator for clearness' sake and, therefore, is not canonical. S.M.

57. Plotinus At PhilosophyClassics.com -- Essays, Resources
    plotinus free essays, eTexts, resources and links from PhilosophyClassics.com. Sign up to The Daily Muse for free. plotinus. 204 - 270 *.  
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    Extractions: These essays offer analysis of the author's life and works. Many of them have been submitted by users, and are assigned an Editorial Rating on a scale from one to five stars to assist you in evaluating their worth. See also: Note on Essays Editorial Policy No essays about this philosopher have been added yet. Our database is growing rapidly check back soon!

58. Burton-Christie On Plotinus
    ELLOPOS Home. Eckhart Start Page. DOUGLAS BURTONCHRISTIE The Pagan Philosopher s Quest for Holiness plotinus and his Circle. T IS  
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    Extractions: T IS is generally acknowledged that Greek philosophy became an increasingly religious endeavor during the period of late antiquity. By the second century C.E. the philosophical schools were not thought of merely as intellectual schools of thought but as something broader - bioi or ways of life In these philosophical schools, religious questions were central. "To the man in the street," Dodd says, "the term 'philosophy' came increasingly to mean the quest for God." Hadot, having reviewed numerous schools of ancient Greek philosophy, concludes that "[t]rue philosophy is ... 'spiritual exercise' ... no longer [understood] as a theoretical construction, but as a method of forming a new way of living and of seeing the world, as an attempt to transform man." These descriptions of the philosophical endeavor in late antiquity catch much of the spirit of Plotinus's own school. It was characterized by a particular way of life and a distinctly religious approach to philosophical questions. The pagan philosopher was distinguished by a generally positive appraisal of his culture. We learn at the beginning of Porphyry's

59. Plotinus :: Online Encyclopedia :: Information Genius
    plotinus. Online Encyclopedia plotinus, (died about AD 270) is widely considered the father of NeoPlatonism. Much of our biographical  
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    Extractions: Plotinus, (died about A.D. ) is widely considered the father of Neo-Platonism . Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' Enneads Porphyry believed Plotinus was 66 years old when he died in the second year of the reign of the emperor Claudius , and estimated the year of his teacher's birth as around AD . Plotinus disliked "being in the body", so he never discussed his ancestry, or his place or date of birth. Eunapius however reports that he was born in Lyco or Lycopolis in Egypt He took up the study of philosophy at the age of 27, around the year 232, and went to Alexandria to study. Plotinus was dissatisfied with every teacher he met until a friend suggested he go to Ammonius Saccas . Upon hearing Ammonius lecture, he declared to his friend "This was the man I was looking for," and began to study intently under this teacher. Plotinus spent the next eleven years in Alexandria until his 38th year, when he decided to investigate the philosophical teachings of the Persians and the Indians . As a result he left Alexandria and joined the army of Gordian III as it marched on Persia. However, on Gordian's death he found himself abandoned in a hostile land, and with difficulty found his way back to safety in

60. Plotinus On The Soul
    plotinus on the Soul A Study in the Metaphysics of Knowledge. by Jennifer Yhap. The study concludes with the general acclaim of plotinus and the Enneads.  
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    Extractions: The author offers a study on the scientific knowledge of sensible reality in the Enneads . In so doing, she presents a radical new perspective on the philosophy of Plotinus and engages in an intense, detailed, and critical re-reading of Plotinus and his commentators. This effect is witnessed in her choice of texts, from the early and very famous treatise "The Three Initial Hypostases" (V,1[10]) to her very singular use and analysis of the late treatise "On Love" (III,5[50]). Of interest to scholars in Plotinian studies, this book has yet a larger audience as the author investigates the full range of Plotinian epistemology from the originative production of the One, that is the Intellect, to the last declension of true being that is Nature, the lower part of world Soul. The style is fluid and appeals to scholars of ancient philosophy as well as more contemporary discussions in the field of metaphysics and epistemology. Chapter 1 sets forth the basic problematic of the work in terms of the Plotinian doctrine of two acts, the intrinsic act of being and the derived act of being, and introduces the central theme of the study, namely that discursive knowledge for Plotinus consists in a vision of Soul which must be actualized. Aporetic in outcome, this first part of the study points out the many difficulties attached to having such knowledge at all.

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