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Plotinus in dialogue with the Gnostics /
The point of view put forth in the following pages differs greatly from the common perspective according to which the treatises 30 to 33 constitute a single work, a Groṡchrift, and this single work, Plotinus' essential response to the Gnostics. Our perspective is that of an ongoing discussions...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Colección: | Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts.
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Note on Publications; Introduction; Study One. The Controversy over the Generation of Matter in Plotinus: The Riddle Resolved?; Study Two. The Riddle of the Partly Undescendend Soul in Plotinus: The Gnostic/Hermetic Path of the?µ???s???; Study Three. A Doctrinal Evolution in Plotinus? The Weakness of the Soul in Its Relation to Evil; Study Four. A New Sign of the Impact of the Quarrel against the Gnostics on Plotinus' Thought: Two Modes of Reascent in 9 (Vi 9) and 37 (Vi 8); Study Five. A New Type of Causality: Plotinian Contemplative Demiurgy.
- Study Six. New Reflections on God as Causa Sui in Plotinus and Its Possible Gnostic SourcesWorks Consulted; Index Nominum.