The Wisdom of Plotinus: A Metaphysical Study (Classic Reprint)

Charles Joseph Whitby

ISBN 10: 133089622X / ISBN 13: 9781330896228

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Print on Demand. This book presents an in-depth study of the philosophical system of the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus, one of the founders of Neoplatonism. Plotinus's complex and wide-ranging ideas are here explained with clarity and precision, covering metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and more. The author provides a thorough overview of Plotinus's thought, from his conceptions of the One and the Universal Soul to his theories of emanation and reincarnation. The book also explores the influence of Plotinus's thought on subsequent philosophical traditions, including Christianity and Islamic philosophy. This book is a valuable resource for scholars and students of philosophy, as well as anyone interested in the history of ideas. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titolo: The Wisdom of Plotinus: A Metaphysical Study (Classic Reprint)
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 133089622X
• ISBN 13: 9781330896228
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: print-on-demand item
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Greco-Roman Philosophy

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Excerpt from The Wisdom of Plotinus: A Metaphysical Study

Cient and modern metaphysic. Of ancient meta physic, for the reason already stated; of modern, because, though, in the Science of Being, vast progress has doubtless been made since the days when Plotinus lived and taught at Rome and Alex andria, yet, upon the whole, it has been a progress which, leaving unmarred the grand outlines of the primitive scheme, has perforce contented itself with broadening and strengthening its logical foundations and enriching its bare and abstract austerity with all the fulness of concrete experience. To Plotinus thinkers so great, yet so diverse, as Hegel, Coleridge and Emerson have been proud to acknowledge their debt. Had it remained unacknowledged it might easily have been inferred by the student of their respective works. The modern theory of the Absolute, as represented in the masterly speculations of our own Dr. Bradley, amounts in fact to a rein statement oi the Plotinian theory of the Noumenal Universe. With a difference, no doubt; for, at first sight, the sensuous factors of experience, which Bradley includes, would in the N e0platonist system appear to be excluded from the definition of Reality. But they are not really so excluded, only conceived as divested of the element of illusion which char acterises them on the phenomenal plane. For Plotinus expressly states that, in the sphere of.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.