On Plotinus / C. Wayne Mayhall.

Numbering in series arbitrarily assigned. Table of Contents Preface 1 Introduction 1 Neo-Platonism 1 Plotinus' Beginnings 2 Plotinus' Circle 2 Porphyry 4 Influences 5 Plotinus and Platonism 8 2 The One 10 The Plotinian "One" 10 A Prelude to the Plotinian One 11 Plato and Aristotle 12 The One as Absolute Simplex 13 The One and the Many 14 The One and Space 16 The One and Being, Thought and Purpose 17 We Cannot Know the One 19 Phases of the Human Psyche 19 The One and Goodness 20 The One as Unthinkable 21 3 The Nous 23 A Philosophical Mistake 23 A Prelude to the Plotinian Nous 24 The Plotinian Nous 25 Why the Nous? 26 4 The Soul 33 The Notion of the Soul 33 A Prelude to the plotinian Soul 34 The Universal Soul 35 The "All-Soul" 36 A Turning Away 37 The Soul Inhabiting Body 38 The Soul's Rebirth 39 A Grammar of Ascent 40 The Soul's Decent Into the Body 41 Are All Soul's One 42

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