This book argues against the common view that there are no essential differences between Plato and the Neoplatonist philosopher, Plotinus, on the issues of mysticism, epistemology, and ethics. Beginning by examining the ways in which Plato and Plotinus claim that it is possible …
"In The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus's Mysticism, Zeke Mazur offers a radical reconceptualization of Plotinus with reference to Gnostic thought and praxis. A crucial element in the thought of the third-century CE philosopher Plotinus-his conception of mystical unio…
"In The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus's Mysticism, Zeke Mazur offers a radical reconceptualization of Plotinus with reference to Gnostic thought and praxis. A crucial element in the thought of the third-century CE philosopher Plotinus-his conception of mystical unio…
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 consciousne…
"A translation and commentary on Plotinus' Ennead VI.9 on the Good, being the treatise chosen by Porphyry as the culmination of Plotinus' Collected Works"--
"A translation and commentary on Plotinus' Ennead VI.9 on the Good, being the treatise chosen by Porphyry as the culmination of Plotinus' Collected Works"--