PLOTINUS Ennead IV.4.30-45 & IV.5
Problems Concerning the Soul
Ennead IV.4.30-45 and IV.5 retrieves the unity in this last section of Plotinus' treatise on Problems concerning the Soul. Combining translation with commentary, Gurtler enhances both the accuracy of the translation and the recovery of Plotinus' often unsuspected originality. This is especially true for IV.5, where previous translations fail to convey the concise nature of his argument against both the Aristotelian and Platonic theories of vision. Plato and Aristotle each claim that vision depends on the light between the eye and the object, but Plotinus presents evidence that this is not the case and develops a novel theory of light as a sec…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-930972-72-8
- EAN: 9781930972728
- Produktnummer: 35543981
- Verlag: Parmenides Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Gary M. Gurtler, SJ, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is co-editor of the Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy and president of the board of directors of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies. He is the author of Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (1988), as well as many notable articles on Plotinus, including Plotinus: Matter and Otherness (Epoché), Plotinus: Self and Consciousness (History of Platonism: Plato Redivivus), Plotinus on the Soul's Omnipresence in Body (International Journal of the Platonic Tradition), and Imitations of Beings Enter and Exit: Plotinus on Incorporeal Matter in Plato: III 6[26] 11-15 (Philosophy Study).
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