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The Enneads of Plotinus, Volume 1 : A Commentary / Volume 1 : Volume 1 :

This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus-a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the f...

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Autor principal: Kalligas, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Griego Antiguo
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the English Edition; Translator's Preface; Main Abbreviations; Porphyry: On the Life of Plotinus and the Order of His Books; Introduction; The Author, His Times, and His Work; The Composition and Character of the VP; The Organization and Sources of the VP; The System of Dating; Chronological Table; Map; Other Testimonies concerning the Life of Plotinus; Commentary; Appendixes; A. Iulius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis I 7, 13-22; B. The Figural Representations of Plotinus; C. Porphyry in Sicily and His Literary Activity There; First Ennead.
  • I 1 [53]. What Is the Living Being, and What Is Man?I 2 [19]. On Virtues; I 3 [20]. On Dialectic; I 4 [46]. On Well-Being; I 5 [36]. On Whether Well-Being Increases with Time; I 6 [1]. On Beauty; I 7 [54]. On the Primal Good and the Other Goods; I 8 [51]. On What Are and Whence Come Evils; II 3 [52]. On Whether the Stars Are Causes; I 9 [16]. On Going out of the Body; Second Ennead; II 1 [40]. On Heaven; II 2 [14]. On the Movement of Heaven; II 4 [12]. On Matter; II 5 [25]. On What Exists Potentially and What Actually; II 6 [17]. On Substance, or on Quality; II 7 [37]. On Complete Transfusion.
  • II 8 [35]. On Sight, or How Distant Objects Appear SmallII 9 [33]. Against the Gnostics; Third Ennead; III 1 [3]. On Destiny; III 2-3 [47-48]. On Providence, Books I-II; III 4 [15]. On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit; III 5 [50]. On Love; III 6 [26]. On the Impassibility of Things without Body; III 7 [45]. On Eternity and Time; III 8 [30]. On Nature and Contemplation and the One; III 9 [13]. Various Considerations; List of Variant Readings; Key to the Chronological Order of Plotinus' Treatises; Suggested Further Readings on Individual Treatises; Figures; Index of Passages Cited.