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Plotinus and Epicurus : matter, perception, pleasure /
Proposes a new way of understanding themes such as matter, knowledge, human happiness and the gods in Epicurus and Plotinus.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; Note on transliteration; Introduction; Part I Historical overview; 1 The school and texts of Epicurus in the early centuries of the Roman empire; Part II Common anti-Epicurean arguments in Plotinus; 2 The mention of Epicurus in Plotinus' tr. 33 (Enn. II 9) in the context of the polemics between pagans and Christians in the second to third centuries AD: Parallels between Celsus, Plotinus and Origen; 3 Epicureans and Gnostics in tr. 47 (Enn. III 2) 7.29-41.
- 4 'Heavy birds' in tr. 5 (Enn. V 9) 1.8: References to Epicureanism and the problem of pleasure in Plotinus5 Plotinus, Epicurus and the problem of intellectual evidence: Tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1; 6 'What is known through sense perception is an image'. Plotinus' tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1.12-19: An anti-Epicurean argument?; Part III Plotinus' criticism of Epicurean doctrines; 7 Corporeal matter, indefiniteness and multiplicity: Plotinus' critique of Epicurean atomism in tr. 12 (Enn. II 4) 7.20-8; 8 Plotinus' reception of Epicurean atomism in On Fate, tr. 3 (Enn. III 1) 1-3.
- Part IV Epicurean elements in Plotinus: some instances9 Athroa epibole: On an Epicurean formula in Plotinus' work; 10 Plotinus and Epicurus on pleasure and happiness; Bibliography; Index locorum; Index of modern authors; Index of main concepts.