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Book ID :
1411
Author :
Emilsson, Eyjolfur Kjalar
Title :
Plotinus on Intellect
ISBN :
9780199281701
Publisher :
Oxford University Press
Place :
Oxford UK
Edition :
Wrapper Condition (if any):
New
Binding :
Cloth
Year of Publication :
2007
Book Condition :
New
Illustrator (s) :
".
Book Size :
12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall
Book Type :
Hardcover Book
Description :
Plotinus (205-269 AD) is considered the founder of Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophical movement of late antiquity, and a rich seam of current scholarly interest. Whilst Plotinus' influence on the subsequent philosophical tradition was enormous, his ideas can also be seen as the culmination of some implicit trends in the Greek tradition from Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. Emilsson's in-depth study focuses on Plotinus' notion of Intellect, which comes second in his hierarchical model of reality, after the One, unknowable first cause of everything. As opposed to ordinary human discursive thinking, Intellect's thought is all-at-once, timeless, truthful and a direct intuition into 'things themselves'; it is presumably not even propositional. Emilsson discusses and explains this strong notion of non-discursive thought and explores Plotinus' insistence that this must be the primary form of thought. 240 pages
Price ( GBP ) :
41.00
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A
