From the Alien to the Alone : A Study of Soul in Plotinus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gurtler, Gary M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plotinus.

Soul--Philosophy.

Soul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D. C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2022.

Summary:

"A scholarly study of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (204/5-270) and his understanding of the soul; its chapters include: beauty and the good, forgetting the self, matter as indefinite and incorporeal, omnipresence and incorporeality, and omnipresence and transcendence. The work confirms much recent scholarly consensus on Plotinus, but many of the author's interpretations and general conclusions also give constructive challenges to some existing modes of understanding Plotinus's thought. The arguments and their textual evidence, with the accompanying Greek, provide the reader with direct evidence for testing these conclusions as well as appreciating the nature of Plotinus' philosophizing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Beauty and the Good

Forgetting the Self

Matter as Indefinite and Incorporeal

Two Selves and Three Souls

Omnipresence and Incorporeality

Omnipresence and Transcendence

Incorporeal Soul and Incorporeal Matter.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8132-3451-4

OCLC:

1330894127