The Cambridge companion to Plotinus / edited by Lloyd P. Gerson

Name/Title

The Cambridge companion to Plotinus / edited by Lloyd P. Gerson

Entry/Object ID

B693 .Z37 C36 1996

Description

Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine. Here, sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' complex system, and examine his place in the history of philosophy. Contents: Introduction Lloyd P. Gerson; 1. Plotinus: the Platonic tradition and the foundation of Neoplatonism, Maria Luisa Gatti; 2. Plotinus's metaphysics of the One, John Bussanich; 3. The hierarchical ordering of reality in Plotinus, Dominic J. O'Meara; 4. On soul and intellect, Henry J. Blumenthal; 5. Essence and existence in the Enneads, Kevin Corrigan; 6. Plotinus on the nature of physical reality, Michael F. Wagner; 7. Plotinus on matter and evil, Denis O'Brien; 8. Eternity and time, Andrew Smith; 9. Cognition and its object, Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson; 10. Self-knowledge and subjectivity in the Enneads, Sara Rappe; 11. Plotinus: body and soul, Stephen R. L. Clark; 12. Human freedom in the thought of Plotinus, Georges Leroux; 13. An ethic for the Late Antique sage, John M. Dillon; 14. Plotinus and language, Frederic M. Schroeder; 15. Plotinus and later Platonic philosophers on the causality of the first principle, Cristina D'Ancona Costa; 16. Plotinus and Christian philosophy, John Rist.

Collection

Jotidhammo Collection

Dimensions

Dimension Description

xiii, 462 pages

Book Details

Editor

Lloyd P. Gerson

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Place Published

City

Cambridge

Date Published

1996

Publication Subjects

Plotinus

Call No.

B693 .Z37 C36 1996

ISBN

0521470935