PLOTINUS OR THE SIMPLICITY OF VISION

Hadot, Pierre and Michael Chase and Arnold I. Davidson

ISBN 10: 0226311945 / ISBN 13: 9780226311944

Editore: University of Chicago Press, 1998

Paperback in Near Fine condition. 8.41 X 5.47 X 0.51 inches. 152 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information. Codice articolo 72800

Riassunto:

Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's lucid translation—complete with a useful chronology and analytical bibliography—at last makes this book available to the English-speaking world.

Hadot carefully examines Plotinus's views on the self, existence, love, virtue, gentleness, and solitude. He shows that Plotinus, like other philosophers of his day, believed that Plato and Aristotle had already articulated the essential truths; for him, the purpose of practicing philosophy was not to profess new truths but to engage in spiritual exercises so as to live philosophically. Seen in this light, Plotinus's counsel against fixation on the body and all earthly matters stemmed not from disgust or fear, but rather from his awareness of the negative effect that bodily preoccupation and material concern could have on spiritual exercises.

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Titolo: PLOTINUS OR THE SIMPLICITY OF VISION
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: NF