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Plotinus Ennead II 9 33 Against the Gnostics
Author | : Nicola Spanu,Plotinus |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Gnosticism |
ISBN | : 9042925833 |
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This book consists in a commentary and translation of Plotinus's Ennead II 9 [33], entitled by Porphyry Against the Gnostics. The commentary has tried to go beyond the traditional approach, based on the idea that Plotinus's Ennead II 9 is the theatre of the clash of two antithetical worldviews: the first, championed by Plotinus; the second, by his Gnostic disciples; on the contrary, the Ennead II 9 [33] represents a dialogue between a master of philosophy and his own disciples. Plotinus's disciples do not regard Gnosticism as distant from Plato. In contrast, Plotinus does not think that Plato is a precursor of Gnosticism, even if he is aware that his doctrines can be interpreted in a dualistic and Gnostic fashion. He agrees with his disciples that for Plato sensible and intelligible reality, as well as Soul and body, are different; however, Plotinus thinks that their different nature can be ultimately traced back to the same principle, namely being, which contains in itself all possibilities of existence. This is the true gnosis that Plotinus has tried to make his disciples obtain by writing the Ennead II 9 [33].
Ennead II 9
Author | : Plotinus |
Publsiher | : Enneads of Plotinus |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1930972377 |
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How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus' Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of the soul's fall from intelligible reality--it is the evil outcome of a botched creation. Plotinus challenges this, and insists that the soul's creation of the world is the necessary consequence of its contemplation of the ideal forms. While the Gnostics claim to despise the visible universe, Plotinus argues that such contempt displays their ignorance of the higher realities of which the cosmos is a beautiful image. Against the Gnostics is a polemical text. It aims to show the superiority of Plotinus' philosophy over that of his Gnostic rivals, and poses unique challenges: Plotinus nowhere identifies his opponents by name, he does not set out their doctrines in any great detail, and his arguments are frequently elliptical. The detailed commentary provides a guide through these difficulties, making Plotinus' meandering train of thought in this important treatise accessible to the reader.
PLOTINUS Ennead II 9
Author | : Sebastian Gertz |
Publsiher | : Parmenides Publishing |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2017-03-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781930972643 |
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How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus' Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of the soul's fall from intelligible reality-it is the evil outcome of a botched creation. Plotinus challenges this, and insists that the soul's creation of the world is the necessary consequence of its contemplation of the ideal forms. While the Gnostics claim to despise the visible universe, Plotinus argues that such contempt displays their ignorance of the higher realities of which the cosmos is a beautiful image.
Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic
Author | : David Frankfurter |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 817 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004390751 |
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This volume seeks to advance the study of ancient magic through separate discussions of ancient terms for ambiguous or illicit ritual, the ancient texts commonly designated magical, and contexts in which the term magic may be used descriptively.
World Soul Anima Mundi
Author | : Christoph Helmig |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783110628968 |
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From Plato’s Timaeus onwards, the world or cosmos has been conceived of as a living, rational organism. Most notably in German Idealism, philosophers still talked of a ‘Weltseele’ (Schelling) or ‘Weltgeist’ (Hegel). This volume is the first collection of essays on the origin of the notion of the world soul (anima mundi) in Antiquity and beyond. It contains 14 original contributions by specialists in the field of ancient philosophy, the Platonic tradition and the history of theology. The topics range from the ‘obscure’ Presocratic Heraclitus, to Plato and his ancient readers in Middle and Neoplatonism (including the Stoics), to the reception of the idea of a world soul in the history of natural science. A general introduction highlights the fundamental steps in the development of the Platonic notion throughout late Antiquity and early Christian philosophy. Accessible to Classicists, historians of philosophy, theologians and invaluable to specialists in ancient philosophy, the book provides an overview of the fascinating discussions surrounding a conception that had a long-lasting effect on the history of Western thought.
The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus s Mysticism
Author | : Zeke Mazur |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789004441712 |
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In The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism, Zeke Mazur offers a radical reconceptualization of Plotinus with reference to Gnostic thought and praxis, chiefly as evidenced by Coptic works among the Nag Hammadi Codices whose Greek Vorlagen were read in Plotinus’s school.
The Embroidered Bible Studies in Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Honour of Michael E Stone
Author | : Lorenzo DiTommaso,Matthias Henze,William Adler |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1100 |
Release | : 2017-11-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004357211 |
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This Festschrift contains original essays in honour of Michael E. Stone on Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, in its broadest sense: apocryphal texts, traditions, and themes from Second-Temple times to the High Middle Ages, in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
At the Temple Gates
Author | : Heidi Wendt |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190267148 |
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Integrates Jewish/Judean and Christian experts into a wider and more diverse class of religious activity Argues that certain Christian forms of religion first took shape within a class of freelance experts.