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Modes of Knowledge and the Transcendental : an introduction to Plotinus Ennead 5.3 [49].
The philosophy of Plotinus is usually depicted as a quest for the absolute, outside and beyond the world of human knowledge and experience. Yet in the late treatise Ennead 5.3 [49], Plotinus shows himself a philosopher of the transcendental, rather than of the transcendent. Starting from a critical...
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
1991.
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- Modes of Knowledge and the Transcendental; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; I INTRODUCTION; 1 INTERPRETING PLOTINUS; Methods of Interpretation; Plotinus and the History of Greek Philosophy; Preliminary Remarks; 2 THE TREATISE MODES OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL ; Place Among the Other Works; The Title; Summary; Editions, Translations, Commentaries; A Note on the Translation; II ASPECTS OF THE PLOTINIAN UNIVERSE; A Transcendental Method; Self-knowledge and the Concept of We; An Antithesis Between the Psychical and the Physical Realm?
- Idealism or Realism?Unity as a Limiting Concept; III MODES OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL; 1 MODES OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE; 1.1 A Philosophical Problem: Defining the Nature of That which Thinks Itself (ch. 1); 1.2 A Short Psychology of Perception (ch. 2; 1.3 Self-Knowledge and Human Thought (chs. 3-4; 1.4 The Mind's Self-Knowledge (ch. 5); 1.5 Logical necessity and persuasion (ch. 6,11. 1-35; 1.6 The Inwardness of the Mind (ch. 6,11. 35 ff., and ch. 7); 1.7 An Enlightening Metaphor (chs. 8-9; 2 THE ULTIMATE LIMIT OF THOUGHT; 2.1 The Intrinsic Plurality of Thought (ch. 10,11. 1-39).
- 2.2 A Striving for Unity (ch. 10,1. 39
- ch. 11,1. 16)2.3 In What Sense is Unity the Origin of All Things? (ch. 11,1. 16
- ch. 12); 2.4 How Can We Speak About What Goes Beyond Thought? chs. 13-14); 2.5 How Can a Unity Provide What It Does Not Have? (ch. 15); 2.6 An Ascent to the Absolutely One (ch. 16 and ch. 17,11. 1-14); 2.7 Epilogue (ch. 17,11.15 ff.); INDEX OF CLASSICAL AUTHORS; INDEX OF GREEK WORDS; GENERAL INDEX.