Plotinus on the soul / Damian Caluori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caluori, Damian, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plotinus.

Soul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Plotinus on the Soul is a study of Plotinus' psychology, which is arguably the most sophisticated Platonist theory of the soul in antiquity. Plotinus offers a Platonist response to Aristotelian and Stoic conceptions of the soul that is at the same time an innovative interpretation of Plato's Timaeus. He considers the notion of the soul to be crucial for explaining the rational order of the world. To this end, he discusses not only different types of individual soul (such as the souls of the stars, and human and animal souls) but also an entity that he was the first to introduce into philosophy: the so-called hypostasis Soul. This is the first study to provide a detailed explanation of this entity, but it also discusses the other types of soul, with an emphasis on the human soul, and explains Plotinus' original views on rational thought and its relation to experience.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1Unity and creation: why Plotinus introduced thehypostasis Soul; The unity of all souls; The Craftsman and the creation of a sensible world; Chapter 2The hypostasis Soul; The hypostasis Intellect and the Timaean Living Being; Propositional and non-propositional thought; Theoretical and practical thought; Creation, contemplation and the Craftsman; Chapter 3 The hypostasis Soul and its relationto individual souls; Being one and many

The hypostasis Intellect, individual intellectsand their individuationThe hypostasis Soul, individual soulsand their individuation; Chapter 4 The individual soul in the intelligibleand in the sensible world; The two lives of the individual soul; The priority of the life in the intelligible world; Chapter 5Divine individual souls; The World Soul; The souls of the stars; The soul of the earth; The blissfully unperturbed life of divine souls; Chapter 6 The human soul: its descent and its confusion in thesensible world; Descent as experience

Experience and the confusion of the human soulin the sensible worldChapter 7 The human soul: the higherand the lower soul; The higher soul and its power in the sensible world; The lower soul as faculty of presentation; Does the lower soul stem from the World Soul?; Chapter 8The soul and the body; Being in; Nature, the trace of the soul and the qualified body; Animals and plants; Bibliography; Indices; Index locorum

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-37954-X

1-316-38314-8

1-316-35914-X

1-316-36034-2

1-316-35974-3

1-316-36094-6

1-316-38494-2

1-316-22668-9