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Ennead IV.4.30-45 and IV.5
Gary M. Gurtler
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Description for Ennead IV.4.30-45 and IV.5
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 190 x 27. Weight in Grams: 428.
Ennead IV.4.30–45 and IV.5 retrieves the unity in this last section of Plotinus’ treatise on Problems concerning the Soul. Combining translation with commentary, Gurtler enhances both the accuracy of the translation and the recovery of Plotinus’ often unsuspected originality. This is especially true for IV.5, where previous translations fail to convey the concise nature of his argument against both the Aristotelian and Platonic theories of vision.
Plato and Aristotle each claim that vision depends on the light between the eye and the object, but Plotinus presents evidence that this is not the case and develops a novel theory of ... Read more
Ennead IV.4.30–45 and IV.5 retrieves the unity in this last section of Plotinus’ treatise on Problems concerning the Soul. Combining translation with commentary, Gurtler enhances both the accuracy of the translation and the recovery of Plotinus’ often unsuspected originality. This is especially true for IV.5, where previous translations fail to convey the concise nature of his argument against both the Aristotelian and Platonic theories of vision.
Plato and Aristotle each claim that vision depends on the light between the eye and the object, but Plotinus presents evidence that this is not the case and develops a novel theory of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Parmenides Publishing United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
The Enneads of Plotinus
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Las Vegas, United States
ISBN
9781930972698
SKU
V9781930972698
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About Gary M. Gurtler
Gary M. Gurtler, SJ is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, USA. He is co-editor of the Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy and president of the board of directors of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies. He is the author of Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (1988), as well as many notable articles on Plotinus, ... Read more
Reviews for Ennead IV.4.30-45 and IV.5
In this third and last part of ‘Problems Concerning the Soul’, Plotinus takes up three final problems or aporiai; insights from the first two parts are used to attack the popularly-credited influence of the planets on human enterprises, and the attendant problem of their memory and cooperation with evil"". - Heythrop Journal