Plotinus Ennead V.5: That the Intelligibles are not External to the Intellect, and on the Good - Couverture souple

Gerson, Lloyd

 
9781930972858: Plotinus Ennead V.5: That the Intelligibles are not External to the Intellect, and on the Good
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1930972857 ISBN 13 : 9781930972858
Editeur : Parmenides Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Platonists beginning in the Old Academy itself and up to and including Plotinus struggled to understand and articulate the relation between Plato's Demiurge and the Living Animal which served as the model for creation. The central question is whether "contents" of the Living Animal, the Forms, are internal to the mind of the Demiurge or external and independent. For Plotinus, the solution depends heavily on how the Intellect that is the Demiurge and the Forms or intelligibles are to be understood in relation to the first principle of all, the One or the Good. The treatise V.5 [32] sets out the case for the internality of Forms and argues for the necessary existence of an absolutely simple and transcendent first principle of all, the One or the Good. Not only Intellect and the Forms, but everything else depends on this principle for their being.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lloyd P. Gerson is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author or editor of some 20 books and approximately 200 articles and reviews, mainly in ancient philosophy. He works especially on Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus. He has also translated woks of Aristotle (with H. G. Apostle), Hellenistic philosophy (with Brad Inwood), and Neoplatonic philosophy (with John Dillon). Among his authored works are God and Greek Philosophy (Routledge, 1990), Plotinus. (Arguments of the Philosophers Series. Routledge, 1994), Knowing Persons. A Study in Plato (Oxford, 2004), Aristotle and Other Platonists (Cornell, 2005), Ancient Epistemology (Cambridge, 2009).

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Éditeur
Parmenides Publishing
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1930972857
ISBN 13 
9781930972858
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
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