Plotinus on the soul : a study in the metaphysics of knowledge / Jennifer Yhap.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yhap, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plotinus.

Soul.

Concept of soul.

Physical Description:

233 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press ; London ; Cranbury, N.J. : Associated University Presses, [2003]

Contents:

I Texts and Problems 19

1. Recapitulation 33

II Divine Soul 35

1. Background to the Treatise "On Love" 35

2. Divine Soul and Divine Aphrodite 44

A. Soul and Separation 54

B. Soul and A Priori Knowledge 56

3. Divine Soul and Self-Subsistent Existence 63

A. Soul and Actuality 64

B. Plotinus's Criticism of Aristotle's Doctrine of Substance and Act 66

4. The Birth of Divine Soul 71

A. The Doctrine of Remaining 72

B. Contemplation as Production 75

5. [characters not reproducible] the God or the Intellective Vision of Soul 83

A. Per Se Property and Relational Property 84

B. Substantial Relation 86

C. [characters not reproducible] the Eye of Soul 88

6. Recapitulation 91

III Mixed Soul 93

1. [characters not reproducible] as Intermediary 94

2. [characters not reproducible] and Analysis 96

3. The Originative Principles Poros and Penia 99

4. [characters not reproducible] the Daimon or Discursiveness 107

5. Inferior Reason 113

A. On Disposition 116

6. Plotinus and the Scientific Knowledge of the Thing 119

A. The Particular and the Universal 120

B. The Aristotelian Background and Alexander of Aphrodisias 124

C. Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of the Thing 128

D. The Logic of Class Inclusion 133

E. The Universal in the Soul 135

7. Recapitulation 138

IV Objections and Replies 142

1. [characters not reproducible] 142

2. Soul and the Ideal of Truth 149

3. Recapitulation 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and indexes.

ISBN:

1575910691

OCLC:

50205630