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Reading Plotinus: A Practical Introduction to Neoplatonism (History of Philosophy) (Purdue University Press Series in the History of Philosophy) by Kevin Corrigan, 2004-12-10 The Mysticism Of Plotinus by Edward Gall, 2010-05-22 Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, Laotzu, Nagarjuna (Harvest Book, Hb 288) by Karl Jaspers, 1974-10-23 The Philosophy of Plotinus 3rd Edition 2 Volume Set by William R. Inge, 1948 The Wisdom of Plotinus; a Metaphysical Study by Whitby, Charles Joseph, 2009-05-20 Plotinus' Psychology: His Doctrines of the Embodied Soul by H.J. Blumenthal, 1971-07-31 Plotinus by Charles M. Bakewell, 2010-05-23 The Mysticism Of Plotinus by Evelyn Underhill, 2010-05-23 The Wisdom Of Plotinus A Metaphysical Study by Charles J. Whitby, 2010-09-10 Plotinus A Volume of Selections in a New English Translation by A.H. Armstrong, 1962-01-01 The Essential Plotinus (Essentials) by Plotinus, Philosophy of Plotinus by Emile Brehier, 1958-12 From Aristotle To Plotinus by T.V. Smith, 2007-03-15 Modes of Knowledge and the Transcendental: An Introduction to Plotinus Ennead 5.3 49 With a Commentary and Translation (Bochumer Studien Zur Philoso) by Henri Oosthout, 1991-09

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41. Plotinus
    plotinus. plotinus, (died about AD 270) is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. plotinus was unable to revise his own work due to his poor eyesight.  
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    Extractions: Main Page See live article Alphabetical index 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

42. Wijsbegeerte: Plotinus
    plotinus (203274). De belangrijkste neoplatonicus, die men terecht de laatste grote Griekse wijsgeer heeft genoemd, is plotinus.  
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43. Plotinus Resources:
    plotinus Resources The Six Enneads. IEP on plotinus. plotinus 205270 A Safe Haven biography. Other items Emanation. Neo-Platonism.  
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44. Harvard University Press/Plotinus, Volume I. Porphyry's Life Of Plotinus. Ennead
    Volume I. Porphyry s Life of plotinus. Ennead 1 by plotinus Translated by AH Armstrong, published by Harvard University Press.  
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    Extractions: Translated by A. H. Armstrong Plotinus (A.D. 204/5-270) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads). Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and the Stoics, whose writings he knew well but used critically. He is a unique combination of mystic and Hellenic rationalist. His thought dominated later Greek philosophy and influenced both Christians and Moslems, and is still alive today because of its union of rationality and intense religious experience. In his acclaimed edition of Plotinus, Armstrong provides excellent introductions to each treatise. His invaluable notes explain obscure passages and give reference to parallels in Plotinus and others. OTHER HARVARD BOOKS BY PLOTINUS

45. 20th WCP: Remarks On The Spoudaios In Plotinus I 4 [46]
    Remarks on the spoudaios in plotinus I 4 46. This question turns out to be fundamental, especially when trying to make out an ethical dimension in plotinus.  
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    Extractions: Alexandrine.Schniewind@unifr.ch ABSTRACT: Who is the Plotinian spoudaios and what is his function in the Enneads ? This question turns out to be fundamental, especially when trying to make out an ethical dimension in Plotinus. Treatise I 4 [46] offers, concerning that question, not only the longest sustained discussion of the spoudaios , but also shows how highly problematic it is to figure out more precisely his characteristics. This is due to the terminological ambiguity with the term sophos , which is also the reason why the two terms are often considered synonymous by translators. It appears in I 4 that this ambiguity is closely related to the question of aisthesis . And this is also perhaps the main problematic point concerning the spoudaios status questionis Who is the plotinian spoudaios and what is his function in the Enneads ? This question occurs especially in regard to treatise I 4 [46] which offers the longest sustained discussion of the spoudaios The main problem which presents itself as regards the term spoudaios is its apparent terminological similarity with sophos . As most translations show, both terms seem to be taken as almost synonymous, the most problematic one being Bréhier's French translation of the

46. The Enneads By Plotinus On Windsor Castle
    The Enneads by plotinus for quiet reflection of the big picture. The Enneads by plotinus. plotinus, a bust. The Enneads were put down in writing around 250 AD.  
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    Extractions: SITE QUERIES CASTLE SEARCH E-MAIL Plotinus, a bust The Enneads were put down in writing around 250 AD. This updated presentation is rooted in a translation by a very often unwell and miserable Stephen MacKenna (1872-1934) and Bertram Samuel Page, a young scholar who relieved MacKenna of translating Enneads 6:1-3 for the last volume somewhere between 1928 and 1930, when it was published. The text that follows here, is rooted in MacKenna's and Pages' translation. It was re-edited by me. - T. Byrn. The first ennead: The animate and the man On virtue On dialectic [the upward way] On true happiness ... The reasoned dismissal The second ennead: On the cosmos or on the heavenly system The heavenly circuit Are the stars causes Matter in its two kinds ... Against those that affirm the creator of the cosmos and the cosmos itself to be evil: [generally quoted as "Against the gnostics"] The third ennead: Fate On providence (1) On providence (2) Our tutelary spirit ... Detached considerations The fourth ennead: On the essence of the soul (1) On the essence of the soul (2) Problems of the soul (1) Problems of the soul (2) ... Are all souls one?

47. 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

48. 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

49. 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

50. 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.

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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.

54. 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.

55. 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.

56. 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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57. 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.

58. 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.

59. WB 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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60. 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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