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

Wilberding, James

 
9780199277261: Plotinus' Cosmology: A Study of Ennead Ii.1 40, Text, Translation, and Commentary
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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199277265
ISBN 13 
9780199277261
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
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