Plotinus: Ennead I.6: on Beauty - Couverture souple

Smith, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1930972938 ISBN 13 : 9781930972933

Editeur : Parmenides Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Ennead I.6 is probably the best known and most influential treatise of Plotinus, especially for Renaissance artists and thinkers. Although the title may suggest a work on aesthetics and thus of limited focus, this is far from the case. For it quickly becomes apparent that Plotinus main interest is in transcendent beauty, which he identifies with the Good, the goal of all philosophical endeavor in the Platonists search to assimilate himself with the divine. The treatise is at once a philosophical search for the nature of the divine and at the same time an encouragement to the individual to aspire to this goal by taking his start from the beauty which is experienced in this world; for it is an image of transcendent beauty. This upward movement of the treatise reflects throughout the speech of Socrates in Platos Symposium in which he recounts the exhortation of the priestess Diotima to ascend from earthly to transcendent beauty, which for Plotinus is identified with the divine.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Smith is Emeritus Professor of Classics at University College Dublin. He is the author of Porphyry's Place in the Neoplatonic Tradition: A Study in Post-Plotinian Neoplatonism (1974), Philosophy in Late Antiquity (2004), and Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus: Philosophy and Religion in Neoplatonism (2012). He is the editor of the Teubner edition of the fragments of Porphyry (1993) and of Philosophy and Society in Late Antiquity (2005), as well as series editor, with John M. Dillon, of the Enneads of Plotinus with Philosophical Commentaries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Parmenides Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1930972938
• ISBN 13: 9781930972933
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
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