Plotinus the Platonist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plotinus the Platonist write by David J. Yount. This book was released on 2014-10-23. Plotinus the Platonist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this insightful new book David J. Yount argues, against received wisdom, that there are no essential differences between the metaphysics of Plato and Plotinus. Yount covers the core principles of Plotinian thought: The One or Good, Intellect, and All-Soul (the Three Hypostases), Beauty, God(s), Forms, Emanation, Matter, and Evil. After addressing the interpretive issues that surround the authenticity of Plato's works, Plotinus: The Platonist deftly argues against the commonly held view that Plotinus is best interpreted as a Neo-Platonist, proposing he should be thought of as a Platonist proper. Yount presents thorough explanations and quotations from the works of each classical philosopher to demonstrate his thesis, concluding comprehensively that Plato and Plotinus do not essentially differ on their metaphysical conceptions. This is an ideal text for Plato and Plotinus scholars and academics, and excellent supplementary reading for upper-level undergraduates students and postgraduate students of ancient philosophy.
Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics
Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics write by David J. Yount. This book was released on 2017-02-23. Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues against the common view that there are no essential differences between Plato and the Neoplatonist philosopher, Plotinus, on the issues of mysticism, epistemology, and ethics. Beginning by examining the ways in which Plato and Plotinus claim that it is possible to have an ultimate experience that answers the most significant philosophical questions, David J. Yount provides an extended analysis of why we should interpret both philosophers as mystics. The book then moves on to demonstrate that both philosophers share a belief in non-discursive knowledge and the methods to attain it, including dialectic and recollection, and shows that they do not essentially differ on any significant views on ethics. Making extensive use of primary and secondary sources, Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology and Ethics shows the similarities between the thought of these two philosophers on a variety of philosophical questions, such as meditation, divination, wisdom, knowledge, truth, happiness and love.
Plotinus' Legacy
Plotinus' Legacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plotinus' Legacy write by Stephen Gersh. This book was released on 2019-04-25. Plotinus' Legacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using a series of case-studies from across European philosophical traditions, this book traces the influence of Neoplatonism over the centuries.
From Plato to Platonism
From Plato to Platonism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Plato to Platonism write by Lloyd P. Gerson. This book was released on 2013-11-27. From Plato to Platonism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato’s own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries. In From Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. Gerson argues that the ancients are correct in their assessment. He arrives at this conclusion in an especially ingenious manner, challenging fundamental assumptions about how Plato’s teachings have come to be understood. Through deft readings of the philosophical principles found in Plato's dialogues and in the Platonic tradition beginning with Aristotle, he shows that Platonism, broadly conceived, is the polar opposite of naturalism and that the history of philosophy from Plato until the seventeenth century was the history of various efforts to find the most consistent and complete version of "anti-naturalism." Gerson contends that the philosophical position of Plato—Plato’s own Platonism, so to speak—was produced out of a matrix he calls "Ur-Platonism." According to Gerson, Ur-Platonism is the conjunction of five "antis" that in total arrive at anti-naturalism: anti-nominalism, anti-mechanism, anti-materialism, anti-relativism, and anti-skepticism. Plato’s Platonism is an attempt to construct the most consistent and defensible positive system uniting the five "antis." It is also the system that all later Platonists throughout Antiquity attributed to Plato when countering attacks from critics including Peripatetics, Stoics, and Sceptics. In conclusion, Gerson shows that Late Antique philosophers such as Proclus were right in regarding Plotinus as "the great exegete of the Platonic revelation."
Plotinus the Platonist
Plotinus the Platonist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plotinus the Platonist write by David J. Yount. This book was released on 2014-10-23. Plotinus the Platonist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this insightful new book David J. Yount argues, against received wisdom, that there are no essential differences between the metaphysics of Plato and Plotinus. Yount covers the core principles of Plotinian thought: The One or Good, Intellect, and All-Soul (the Three Hypostases), Beauty, God(s), Forms, Emanation, Matter, and Evil. After addressing the interpretive issues that surround the authenticity of Plato's works, Plotinus: The Platonist deftly argues against the commonly held view that Plotinus is best interpreted as a Neo-Platonist, proposing he should be thought of as a Platonist proper. Yount presents thorough explanations and quotations from the works of each classical philosopher to demonstrate his thesis, concluding comprehensively that Plato and Plotinus do not essentially differ on their metaphysical conceptions. This is an ideal text for Plato and Plotinus scholars and academics, and excellent supplementary reading for upper-level undergraduates students and postgraduate students of ancient philosophy.
