Plotinus

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Title Statements

Full title :Plotinus. / Plotinus ; with an English translation by A.H. Armstrong.

Summary

Porphyry, on the life of Plotinus and the order of his books: a biography and analysis of his life and work by his disciple Porphyry.

Ennead 1. Plotinus (204/5-270) was the 1st Neoplatonic philosopher. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads). Plotinus regarded Plato as his master. His own philosophy is an original development of the Platonism of the 1st two centuries of the Christian era & the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle & his followers & the Stoics, whose writings he knew well but used critically. He's a unique combination of mystic & Hellenic rationalist. His thought dominated later Greek philosophy & influenced both Christians & Moslems, & is continues today owing to its union of rationality & intense religious experience.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1989.
Edition:Revised

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:gre
Publication Date:1989.

Notes

The Loeb edition of Plotinus is in 7 volumes.

Originally published 1966.

Porphyry, on the life of Plotinus and the order of his books.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxvii, 325 pages ; : 17 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0674994841, 9780674994843
oclc:on1302224200
LC Classification:PA4363

Ennead 1. What is the living being, and what is man? -- On virtues -- On dialectic -- On well-being -- On whether well-being increases with time -- On beauty -- On the primal good and the other goods -- On what are and whence come evils -- On going out of the body.

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