Ennead / Plotinus ; with an English translation by A.H. Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plotinus, author.

Contributor:

Armstrong, A. H. (Arthur Hilary), translator.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 440-445, 468.

Loeb Classical Library ; 440-445, 468

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Plotinus--Criticism and interpretation.

Plotinus.

Plotinus--Disciples.

Plotinus. Enneads--II, 9 (33).

Disciples.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : table.

Edition:

Revised.

Other Title:

Digital Loeb.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them sometime between 301 and 305 CE in six sets of nine treatises each (Enneads), with a biography of his master in which he also explains his editorial principles. Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads). Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and the Stoics, whose writings he knew well but used critically. He is a unique combination of mystic and Hellenic rationalist. His thought dominated later Greek philosophy and influenced both Christians and Moslems, and is still alive today because of its union of rationality and intense religious experience. In his acclaimed edition of Plotinus, Armstrong provides excellent introductions to each treatise. His invaluable notes explain obscure passages and give reference to parallels in Plotinus and others.

Contents:

v. I. Porphyry on the life of Plotinus. Ennead I

v. II

v. III

v. IV

v. V

v. VI. 1-5

v. VI. 6-9.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Plotinus. Ennead.

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