| Description |
1 online resource (337 pages) |
| Series |
The Enneads of Plotinus |
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Enneads of Plotinus
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| Contents |
Cover; About the Author; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents; Introduction to the Series ; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the Treatise; Note on the Text; Synopsis; Translation of Plotinus Ennead IV.7; Commentary ; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 8-1; Chapter 8-2; Chapter 8-3; Chapter 8-4; Chapter 8-5; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Select Bibliography; Index of Ancient Authors; Index of Names and Subjects; Also Available from Parmenides Publishing |
| Summary |
Ennead IV. 7 is a very early treatise, where Plotinus presents the teachings of the main schools current in his day: the Stoics, Epicureans, Pythagoreans, and Peripatetics, all of whom presented soul as something material and neither truly immortal nor imperishable. It includes observations on many mainly Stoic doctrines on perception, memory, sensation, thought, virtue, powers of material bodies, mixture and reproduction; on Pythagorean attunement; and on Peripatetic entelechy. In Chapters 9-10 Plotinus presents Plato's doctrines on soul's immortality-mainly that of the individual soul, but a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Plotinus. Ennead. IV, 7
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Soul -- Early works to 1800
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Soul
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fleet, Barrie, translator, commentator
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| LC no. |
2015051010 |
| ISBN |
9781930972964 |
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1930972962 |
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