Plotinus' Cosmology: A Study of Ennead Ii.1 40, Text, Translation, and Commentary - Couverture rigide

Wilberding, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199277265 ISBN 13 : 9780199277261

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

In Ennead II.1 (40) Plotinus is primarily concerned to argue for the everlastingness of the universe, the heavens, and the heavenly bodies as individual substances. Here he must grapple both with the philosophical issue of personal identity through time and with the rich tradition of cosmology which pitted the Platonists against the Aristotelians and Stoics. What results is a historically informed cosmological sketch explaining the constitution of the heavens as well as sublunar and celestial motion. This book contains an extensive introduction aimed at providing the necessary background in Platonic, Aristotelian, and Stoic cosmology, the text itself, and a line-by-line commentary designed to elucidate its philosophical, philological and historical details.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

James Wilberding is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Williams College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199277265
• ISBN 13: 9780199277261
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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