Plotinus on consciousness

Plotinus on consciousness

by Hutchinson, D. M.

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Plotinus is the first Greek philosopher to hold a systematic theory of consciousness. The key feature of his theory is that it involves multiple layers of experience: different layers of consciouness occur in different levels of self. This layering of higher modes of consciousness on lower ones provides human beings with a rich experiential world and enables them to draw on their own experience to investigate their true self and the nature of reality. This involves a robust notion of subjectivi…

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  • Full title :Plotinus on consciousness / D.M. Hutchinson, St Olaf College.

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Plotinus is the first Greek philosopher to hold a systematic theory of consciousness. The key feature of his theory is that it involves multiple layers of experience: different layers of consciouness occur in different levels of self. This layering of higher modes of consciousness on lower ones provides human beings with a rich experiential world and enables them to draw on their own experience to investigate their true self and the nature of reality. This involves a robust notion of subjectivity. However, it is a notion of subjectivity that is unique to Plotinus, and remarkably different from the post-Carthesian tradition. Behind the plurality of terms Plotinus uses to express consciousness, and behind the plurality of entities to which Plotinus attributes consciousness (such as the divine souls and the hypostases), lies a theory of human consciousness. It is a Platonist theory shaped by engagement with rival schools of ancient thought.

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  • Publication Date:©2018

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  • Description:xi, 209 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781108424769, 1108424767, 9781108440912, 1108440916
  • oclc:on1015833872
  • LC Classification:B693.Z7
  • Dewey Decimal:186/.4

Table of Contents

Introduction -- 1. Self -- 2. Consciousness Terms -- 3. First Layer: The Soul-Trace -- 4. Second Layer: The Lower Soul -- 5. Third Layer: The Higher Soul -- 6. Self- Determination -- 7. Conclusion.

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Conscience consciousness Plotinus

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Hutchinson, D. M.

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