TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mayhall, C. Wayne.
TI  - On Plotinus
SN  - 053425229x
AV  - B 693.Z7  .M453 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Belmont, Calif.
PB  - Thomson/Wadsworth
KW  - Plotinus
KW  - sears
N1  - 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
N2  - Offers a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to the philosopher's most important ideas. As part of the Wadsworth philosophers series this title have proven valuable in a number of ways. Serving as standalone texts when tackling a philosophers' original sources or as helpful resources for focusing philosophy students' engagements with these philosopher's often conceptually daunting works, these titles have also gained extraordinary popularity with a lay readership and quite often serve as "refreshers" for philosophy instructors
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