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Author Gál, Ota, author

Title Plotinus on beauty : beauty as illuminated unity in multiplicity / by Ota Gál
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Series Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 1871-188X ; volume 29
Contents Preliminary Material / Ota Gál -- Copyright Page / Ota Gál -- Acknowledgements / Ota Gál -- Abbreviations / Ota Gál -- Chapter 1 Introduction / Ota Gál -- Chapter 2 Beauty as a Stepping-Stone (Treatise I .6) / Ota Gál -- Chapter 3 Intelligible Beauty (Treatise V .8) / Ota Gál -- Chapter 4 Unity, Multiplicity and the Highest Kinds (Treatise VI .2) / Ota Gál -- Chapter 5 Unity, Multiplicity and the Numbers (Treatise VI .6) / Ota Gál -- Chapter 6 Beauty as the Manifestation of the Good (Treatise VI .7) / Ota Gál -- Chapter 7 Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity / Ota Gál -- Bibliography / Ota Gál -- Index / Ota Gál
Summary "In this book, Ota Gál presents a new analysis of Plotinus' conception of beauty, beginning from a close reading of treatises I.6 and V.8, which link beauty with the unified multiplicity of Intellect. This account is subsequently placed in a hierarchical and structural context in VI.2 and VI.6 and connected to illumination in VI.7, enabling us to determine the meaning of the predicate "beauty" at different ontological levels. For Plotinus, beauty is ultimately the illuminated unity in multiplicity of Intellect, which, as the manifestation of the Good, simultaneously enables the soul's ascent and threatens to bind the soul to itself"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Plotinus
SUBJECT Plotinus fast
Subject Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022004238
ISBN 9789004510203
9004510206