61. 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. http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol9/plotinus.htm

ON THE DEMONOLOGY OF PLOTINUS 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

62. 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. http://www.ogdoadic.com/texts/plotinus/1.html

First Tractate The Animate and the Man . 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.

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64. Burton-Christie On Plotinus ELLOPOS Home. Eckhart Start Page. DOUGLAS BURTONCHRISTIE The Pagan Philosopher s Quest for Holiness plotinus and his Circle. T IS http://www.ellopos.net/theology/eckhart_plotinus.htm

DOUGLAS BURTON-CHRISTIE: The Pagan Philosopher's Quest for Holiness: Plotinus and his Circle 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

65. Plotinus :: Online Encyclopedia :: Information Genius plotinus. Online Encyclopedia plotinus, (died about AD 270) is widely considered the father of NeoPlatonism. Much of our biographical http://www.informationgenius.com/encyclopedia/p/pl/plotinus.html

Quantum Physics Pampered Chef Paintball Guns Cell Phone Reviews ... Science Articles Plotinus Online Encyclopedia 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

66. 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. http://www.susqu.edu/su_press/bookjacketsinfo/Plotinus on the Soul.htm

SU Press Welcome Quick Links New Releases Catalogs Subject Search Series Book Reviews Books In Print Browse Book Reviews About the Book Subject Search Information About SU Press Contact Information Ordering Information Series Catalogue of Titles Titles View Catalogue by Title View Catalogue by Author ... View Catalogue by ISBN Submission of Manuscripts Query Letters AMI Form Submission Guidelines Other Links Susquehanna University Associated University Presses Plotinus on the Soul: A Study in the Metaphysics of Knowledge by Jennifer Yhap 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.

67. Plotinus plotinus. 1. Biographical Information. Information on the life of plotinus comes from Porphyry s The Life of plotinus. http://www.abu.nb.ca/Courses/GrPhil/PhilRel/Plotinus.htm

Plotinus 1. Biographical Information Information on the life of Plotinus comes from Porphyry's The Life of Plotinus ennea means "nine"). Plotinus' Enneads are long and repetitive at times, but give a comprehensive account of Plotinus' philosophical views. 2. Philosophical Views 2.1. Introduction Plato held that there existed three "entities" in the intelligible realm. There were, of course, the Forms or Ideas, in which sensible objects participate to be what they are. With the Forms or Ideas are also found souls, at least those that were not unfortunate enough to find themselves embodied. Transcending the Forms or Ideas was a particular Form, that of the Good, about which Socrates refused to speak in Republic 6. This Form of the Good seems to be identical to Being itself, which transcends the Forms, in Phaedrus , and it must be noted that Aristotle reports that Plato taught that the One is identical to the Good and is the cause of the Forms ( Eudemian Ethics Metaphysics 1.6). In

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69. Philosophical Dictionary: Philia-Poincare supposed adherence to this notion a significant source for the notion of the great chain of being envisioned by such philosophers as Plato, plotinus, and the http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/p5.htm

Philosophy Pages F A Q Dictionary ... Locke filia [philia] Greek term for friendship or amiability. In the philosophy of Empedocles , the constructive principle counter-acting the destructive influence of neikoV [neikos] Aristotle regarded friendship as a crucial component of the good life Recommended Reading: Eros, Agape and Philia: Readings in the Philosophy of Love at Amazon.com Also see Brian Mooney and PP Philo Judaeus (Philo of Alexandria) ( 20 B.C.E.-50 C.E. Alexandrian Jewish philosopher who tried to synthesize Greek philosophy with Judaism by means of an allegorical interpretation of scripture. According to Philo, the personal deity of scripture is identical with Form of the Good in Plato , and the logos [logos] is its mediating creative force. Recommended Reading: The Works of Philo at Amazon.com Message of Philo Judaeus of Alexandria at Amazon.com From Philo to Origen: Middle Platonism in Transition at Amazon.com Also see IEP The Ecole Initiative ColE BIO , and Francesca Calabi philosophy filosofia Literally, love of wisdom. Hence, careful thought about the fundamental nature of the world, the grounds for human knowledge, and the evaluation of human conduct. As an academic discipline, philosophy's chief branches include logic metaphysics epistemology , and ethics , and the appropriate aims and methods of each are the concern of metaphilosophy Recommended Reading: Nigel Warburton

70. Plotinus - InformationBlast plotinus Information Blast. plotinus. Much of our biographical information about plotinus comes from Porphyry s preface to his edition of plotinus Enneads. http://www.informationblast.com/Plotinus.html

Plotinus Plotinus, (died about A.D. ) is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism . 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

71. Oxford Scholarship Online: Plotinus Home Subject index Philosophy Table of contents. Subject Philosophy Book Title plotinus. http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/philosophy/0198751478/toc.ht

About OSO What's New Subscriber Services Help ... Philosophy Table of contents Subject: Philosophy Book Title: Plotinus show chapter abstracts hide chapter abstracts O'Meara, Dominic J. Plotinus An Introduction to the Enneads Print ISBN 0198751478, 1995 Abstract: This book is a guide to those wishing to read the works (the Enneads) of Plotinus, one of the greatest figures of ancient philosophy. The book provides an outline of Plotinus' life and of the composition of the Enneads, placing Plotinus in the intellectual context of his time. Selected Plotinian texts are then discussed in relation to central issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics: soul and body, intelligible and sensible reality, Intellect, the One, speaking of the ineffable, the production of reality, evil, beauty, the human good, and mysticism. Plotinus' historical importance is indicated. The book includes a guide to further reading, arranged by themes, and a bibliography. Keywords: ancient philosophy Enneads epistemology ethics ... Plotinus Table of Contents Preface Full Text Introduction Plotinus' Life and Works Full Text Abstract 1. Soul and Body

72. Plotinus And Vijnanavada Buddhism plotinus and Vijnanavada Buddhism. By McEvilley, Thomas. Philosophy East West V. 30 2 (April 1980) pp. II. THE MENTALISTIDEALIST INTERPRETATION OF plotinus. http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/thomas.htm

Plotinus and Vijnanavada Buddhism By McEvilley, Thomas V. 30: 2 (April 1980) pp. 181-193 Thomas McEvilley is Professor in the Institute for the Arts at Rice University. p.181 I. AIMS AND SCOPE As A. H. Armstrong has said, and virtually every scholarly commentator on Plotinus has agreed, "It is possible to derive from the Enneads several divergent and not completely reconcilable constructions of reality." Perhaps the most fundamental question is whether to emphasize the ontic-ontological aspect of Plotinus' thought or its mentalist-idealist aspect. Plotinus himself vacillates between these two emphases in such a way that neither may clearly and finally be identified as his essential meaning. In the first case the three hypostases appear as a series of different relationships between unity and multiplicity (Parmenidean Being and non-Being), in the second case, as a series of different states of sensibility or different subject-object relationships: The One: unity-unio mystica-pure subject Mind: unity-in-multiplicity-intuition-interpenetrated subject and object Soul: unity and multiplicity-sensation and discursive thought alienated subject and object Most commentators have chosen the ontological emphasis, which brings Plotinus more into line with Plato. If this path is chosen, then Plotinus' thought displays certain important similarities with the Upanisadic-Vedaantic philosophy, and a good deal has been written on that subject (though it cannot be said to have been fully explored).

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A B C D ... Contact Beta 0.71 powered by: akademie.de PHP PostgreSQL Google News about your search term Plotinus Plotinus, (died about A.D. ) is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism . 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

75. Aesthetics - Plotinus plotinus. plotinus works were edited and collected by Porphyry into six books of nine chapters each, known as the Enneads (Greek for The Nines ). http://www.rowan.edu/philosop/clowney/Aesthetics/philos_artists_onart/plotinus.h

Plotinus A main channel through whom Plato's ideas influenced the middle ages, Plotinus (204-270 CE) and his disciple Porphyry combined Plato's rationalism with mysticism to produce a powerfully influential version of neo-Platonism. Plotinus' works were edited and collected by Porphyry into six books of nine chapters each, known as the Enneads (Greek for "The Nines"). Plato had suggested, in Book VI of the Republic , that the Form of the Good was supreme in the world of the Forms. In fact, he said, What gives truth to the objects of knowledge, and to the knowing mind the power to know, is the Form of the Good. As it is the cause of knowledge and truth, think of it also as being the object of knowledge. Both knowledge and truth are beautiful, but you will be right to think of the Good as other and more beautiful than they. As in the visible world light and sight are rightly considered sunlike, but it is wrong to think of them as the sun, so here it is right to think of knowledge and truth as Good-like, but wrong to think of either as the Good, for the Good must be honored even more than they. ... [A]s for the objects of knowledge, not only is their being known due to the Good, but also their real being, though the Good is not being but superior to and beyond being in dignity and power" ( Republic The Enneads contain a chapter on Beauty (I.6) which was highly influential in the Middle Ages. After considering other theories of what beauty is, Plotinus concludes that it is formal Unity. When diverse or similar parts are unified by one form, the Soul recognizes and takes pleasure in the form of Unity. This may happen when we view a painting or a sculpture, listen to a piece of music, or follow an elegant mathematical proof. In all these cases, we are drawn toward Unity, and the form of Beauty Itself. We must get there by stages: like people emerging from a dark cave into sunlight, we must become accustomed to the light. In the following passage, Plotinus combines ideas from Plato's allegory of the Cave with themes from the

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77. Plotinus plotinus Class Lecture Notes. Syllabus For plotinus, man is in some sense divine, and the object of the philosophic life is to http://faculty.ssu.edu/~jdhatley/plotinus.htm

PLOTINUS: Class Lecture Notes Syllabus But Plotinus wishes to speak of a thinking that is not discursive but intuitive, i.e. that it is knowing and what it is knowing are immediately evident to it. There is no gap then between thinking and what is thoughtthey come together in the same moment, which is no longer a moment among other consecutive moments, one following upon the other. Rather, the moment in which such a thinking takes place is immediately present and without difference from any other moment, i.e. its thought is no longer chronological but eternal. To even use names, words, to think about such a thinking is already to implicate oneself in a time of separated and consecutive moments (i.e. chronological) and to have already forgotten what it is one wishes to think, namely thinking and what is thought intuitively together. Plotinus argues: "But if we must introduce these names for what we are seeking, though it is not accurate to do so, let us say again that, speaking accurately, we must no admit even a logical duality in the One but we are using this present language in order to persuade our opponents, though it involves some deviation from accurate thought...We must be forgiven for the terms we use, if in speaking about Him in order to explain what we mean, we have to use language which we, in strict accuracy, do not admit to be applicable. As if must be understood with every term" (Armstrong, p. 53). "For Plotinus as for Philo, God transcends the world completely and far surpasses human comprehension. God is beyond description, for to describe anything is to specify the predicates that belong to some subject; but in Unityin absolute, unqualified Onenessthere is no diversity whatever and therefore no distinction between subject and predicate. In saying that God is Unity, Plotinus does not mean that Unity is a predicate or characteristic of God; he means that "God" and "Unity" (or the "One") are interchangeable names for precisely the same thing. God does not have characteristics and is Himself above and beyond them all."

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Plotinus-Plutarch Other Authors Compiled by Andrew Stoddart Loeb editions Oxford Classical Texts Green and Yellows Various Notes: (York, Cliff, Max etc.) Penguin translations Clarendon Texts Oxford World Classics Aris and Phillips Chicago Translations Bristol Classical Press The Icons against the books refer to their edition and in most cases the language in which they are written. Click on the images above for an explanation as what to expect from these particular editions. Plotinus Religious-philosopher (b. c203 AD). P lotinus Volume 1 Plotinus Vol 2 OCT Plotinus Volume 3 ... Plotinus Lloyd P. Gerson Paperback In Routledge's The Arguments of the Philosophers Series Plotinus- The Enneads Plutarch Plutarch moralia Vol 1 Education of children. how the young man should study poetry. on listening to lectures. how to tell a flatterer from a friend. how a man may become aware of his progress in virtue. Plutarch Moralia Loeb Vol 2 How to Profit by One's enemies; On Having Many Friends; Chance, Virtue and Vice; Letters of Condolence to Apollonius; Advice about Keeping Well; Advice to Bride and Groom; Dinner of the Seven Wise Men; Superstition. Plutarch Moralia Loeb Vol 3 Sayings of Kings and Commanders; Sayings of Romans; Sayings of Spartans; The ANcient Customs of the Spartans; Sayings of Spartan Women; Bravery of Women

79. MMS: Plotinus' Metaphysics Return to MMS homepage Return to MMS syllabus. plotinus Metaphysics. For plotinus, both are on equal footing as aspects of Soul. http://ls.poly.edu/~jbain/mms/handouts/mmsplotinus.htm

Return to MMS homepage Return to MMS syllabus Plotinus' Metaphysics The three hypostases The One ineffable, transcendent Intellect The Realm of Being (contains the Platonic Forms) Soul contains the seminal reasons The Physical World of Becoming The One. Plato's the Good. Ineffable, transcendent, perfect; knowable only through what it is not. Intellect. The Realm of Being; the Realm of the Forms/Ideas. A "One-in-Many": the Forms are the thoughts of the Intellect; in thinking them, they are given being. Aristotle's Prime Mover (self-thinking thought). Eternity is the mode of existence of Intellect. Soul. Immanent in the physical world of Becoming, but transcendent to it. The "higher" part of Soul contemplates Intellect. The "lower" part generates the Physical World guided by the seminal reasons logoi spermatikoi ). A "One-and-Many". Three distinctions: Soul, World Soul, individual souls; the latter two are aspects of the former. Time is the "life" of the Soul. (a) World Soul: the physical cosmos has a soul and is thus a living organism (see, eg, Timaeus (b) Individual souls. Composed of two parts: one remains in the realm of Intellect (the "higher" part of Soul), the other descends to inhabit a coporeal body in the physical world. Hence humans are directly connected to the One via the Intellect. Individuals are the link between the realms. Humans as amphibians.

80. Plotinus rejection. LC 6358–59). plotinus expresses both the negative and the positive pole in the One s relation to all things. ‘The http://church-of-the-east.org/prose/plotinus.htm

PAGES Up VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE TOPIC Healing Holistic Lifestyle Sacred Sensuality Spirituality INTERNAL SITES Interactive Library College Spirituality ... Sacred-Sense Three steps *(here the 'god' is that Energy of God with which we are granted the grace of attaining union with-Christ the Saviour) ‘(1) ... one of us, being unable to see himself, when he is possessed by that god brings his contemplation to the point of vision, and presents himself to his own mind and looks at a beautified image of himself. ... (2) ... but then he dismisses the image, beautiful though it is, and comes to unity with himself, and making no more separation, is one and altogether with god silently present, and is with him as much as he wants to be and can be. (3) But if he returns again to being two, while he remains pure he stays close to the god, so as to be present to him again in that other way if he turns to him again.' (LC 5:272-73) ‘Now it is because you approached the All and did not remain in a part of it, and you did not even say of yourself "I am just so much", but by rejecting the "so much" you have become all. ... You will increase yourself then by rejecting all else, and the All will be present to you in your rejection. ...' (LC 6:358–59) Plotinus - expresses both the negative and the positive pole in the One's relation to all things ‘The One is absent from nothing and from everything. It is present only to those who are prepared for it and are able to receive it, to enter into harmony with it, to grasp and touch it by virtue of their likeness to it, by virtue of that inner power similar to and stemming from the One when it is in that state in which it was when it originated from the One. Thus will the One be "seen" as far as it can become an object of contemplation." (Enn. 6.9.4)

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