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“Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains
specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and
will serve as reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation
such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker.
Plotinus is the greatest philosopher in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine. He thought of himself
as a disciple of Plato, but in his efforts to defend Platonism against Aristotelians, Stoics, and others, he actually
produced a reinvigorated version of Platonism that later came to be known as ‘Neoplatonism’. In this volume, sixteen
leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus’ complex system. They place Plotinus in the
history of ancient philosophy while showing how he was a founder od medieval philosophy.
New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Plotinus currently available.
Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Plotinus.”
CONTENTS
List of contributors
The Enneads
Introduction - Lloyd P. Gerson
1. Plotinus: The Platonic tradition and the foundation of Neoplatonism - Maria Luisa Gatti
2. Plotinus’s metaphysics of the One - John Bussanich
3. The hierarchical ordering of reality in Plotinus - Dominic J. O’Meara
4. On soul and intellect - Henry J. Blumenthal
5. Essence and existence in the Enneads - Kevin Corrigan
6. Plotinus on the nature of physical reality - Michael F. Wagner
7. Plotinus on matter and evil - Denis O’Brien
8. Eternity and time - Andrew Smith
9. Cognition and its object - Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson
10. Self-knowledge and subjectivity in the Enneads - Sara Rappe
11. Plotinus: Body and soul - Stephen R. L. Clark
12. Human freedom in the thought of Plotinus - Georges Leroux
13. An ethic for the late antique sage - John M. Dillon
14. Plotinus and language - Frederic M. Schroeder
15. Plotinus and later Platonic philosophers on the causality of the First Principle - Cristina D’Ancona Costa
16. Plotinus and Christian philosophy - John Rist
Bibliography
Index of passages
Index of names and subjects
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