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PLOTINUS Ennead VI.4 & VI.5: On the Presence of Being, One and the Same, Everywhere as a Whole

By Steven , Eyjolfur Strange Emilsson

Book information

Publisher
Parmenides Publishing
Year
2015
ISBN
1930972148, 9781930972148
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
854 kB (874905 bytes)
Pages
305\0
Time added
2023-03-03 14:15:03

Description

Ennead VI.4-5, originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus' most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intelligible and the sensible realms, addressing and coalescing two central issues in Platonism: the nature of the soul-body relationship and the nature of participation. Its main question is, How can soul animate bodies without sharing their extension? The treatise seems to have had considerable impact: it is much reflected in Porphyry's important work, Sententiae, and the doctrine of reception according to the capacity of the recipient, for which this treatise is the main source, resonated in medieval thinkers.

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