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Plotinus Ennead V.8: On Intelligible Beauty: Translation with an Introduction and Commentary (The Enneads of Plotinus)

By Andrew Smith

Book information

Publisher
Parmenides Publishing
Year
2018
ISBN
1930972652, 9781930972650
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
865 kB (885268 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
173\174
Time added
2024-05-13 14:48:24

Description

Plotinus’ Ennead V.8, originally part of a single work (with III.8, V.5, and II.9), provides the foundation for a positive view of the universe as an image of divine beauty against the Gnostic rejection of the world. Although it emphasizes the cosmic dimension of beauty, it is, as are most treatises of Plotinus, concerned with the individual soul. The notion that the artist has within him an idea of beauty that derives directly from the intelligible world in fact coincides with his theory that each one of us has access to Intellect through his or her own intellect. It is the exploitation of this theme that forms the central dynamic of the treatise, with its stress on our ability to "see" and be one with the intelligible world and its beauty.

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