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Plotinus
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Plotinus (ad
c.203–62), Greek philosopher, the chief exponent of
Neoplatonism. His
Enneads did much to shape Christian theology in the 4th cent. and also exercised a wide influence on Renaissance thought through
Ficino's translation (1492). They were studied by the
Cambridge Platonists. The concept of the Chain of Being which Plotinus elaborated was generally accepted until the end of the 18th cent., as was the principle, which
Sidney learnt from
Scaliger, that a poet is a second creator, Art re-ascending to the Ideas from which Nature is derived.
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Plotinus.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...book in that it is neither a synthetic presentation of Plotinus' thought nor an examination of a particular topic in Plotinus. It is rather, as the series title indicates, a study of Plotinus's arguments on a wide range of issues. For this...
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Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...translator explains, Hadot "did not wish his Plotinus to be a work of scholarship" (p. x). It is rather "a spiritual biography of Plotinus - not an analysis of all the details of Plotinus' system - and it is as a spiritual biography...
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The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Lloyd P. The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...For two closely intertwined reasons, Plotinus is one of the philosophers of antiquity...those who have not yet studied any of Plotinus' treatises: the extreme depth of his...
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Wagner, Michael F. Neoplatonism and Nature: Studies in Plotinus' "Enneads.".(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Little attention has been directed to Plotinus's philosophy of nature in contemporary...principle this attempt to investigate Plotinus's understanding of the natural world...not most, of these essays. First, Plotinus cannot be credited with a systematic...
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Form and Transformation: A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...an introduction to the philosophy of Plotinus, with five chapters bearing the titles...the author displays several aspects of Plotinus's philosophy. The first chapter...the two key notions in his account of Plotinus's thought, which recur in the chapters...
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Plotinus's metaphysics: emanation or creation?
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...paper I shall be concerned solely with Plotinus. I hereby set aside all questions regarding...denominator one might suppose between Plotinus and, say, Proclus. There are several...fundamental difference remains between Plotinus' metaphysics and a creation metaphysics...
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Plotinus: An Introduction to the 'Enneads.'
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...philosopher more in need of introduction than Plotinus, nor one whose thought is so deeply...are familiarized with the details of Plotinus's life, the diverse influences upon...hundred pages are devoted to exploring Plotinus's philosophical views, beginning with...
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Florence, 1492: the reappearance of Plotinus.(the publication of Plotinus's manuscripts in the 15th century)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; In the western world, Plotinus was only a name until 1492.(1...century by William of Moerbeke. But Plotinus's own writings remained completely...of 57 had just finished translating Plotinus after translating Plato. An inscription...
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Reading Neoplatonism: Non-discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius. New York...external marks" (Phaedrus 275a). Plotinus likewise knew how these "wise men of...114) begins with an examination of Plotinus' criticism of discursive thinking...
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The One and Its Relation to the Intellect in Plotinus: A Commentary on Selected Texts.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...and Its Relation to the Intellect in Plotinus. A Commentary on Selected Texts. Philosophia...258 pp. $90.00--The study of Plotinus's Enneads is beset with difficulties...8 (Chap. 5) Bussanich discusses Plotinus's metaphysics of light and its historical...
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Plotinus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Plotinus The Greek philosopher Plotinus (205-270) was the founder of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy...of Christianity in the declining years of the ancient world. Plotinus was born perhaps in the Egyptian town of Lyco, or Lycopolis...
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Neoplatonism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...philosophy based on the doctrines of Plato . Plotinus and the Nature of Neoplatonism Considered...pagan philosophies, it was developed by Plotinus (3d cent. AD). It has had a lasting...was much altered by the followers of Plotinus. Neoplatonism was a viable force from...
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William Ralph Inge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...scholar, social critic, authority on Plotinus and Christian mysticism, and prolific...mysticism and resumed his long study of Plotinus and neoplatonism. Books published during...Psychology (1909). His magnum opus on Plotinus was the subject of the Gifford Lectures...
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Abu al-Qasim ibn Muhammad al Junayd
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...scholars that the Neoplatonic philosophy of Plotinus was studied by later Moslem mystics...evidence that al-Junayd had actually read Plotinus or his pupil Porphyry—simply...with the remote, inactive "One" of Plotinus. Other analogous ideas in Plotinus and...
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Porphyry
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Cassius Longinus and philosophy under Plotinus . He later lectured in Rome on the philosophy of Plotinus and was the teacher of the Neoplatonist...He wrote lives of Pythagoras and of Plotinus and edited the Enneads of Plotinus. He...
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