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Plotinus Ennead V.1: On the Three Primary Levels of Reality
Eric David Perl
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Paperback. Editor(s): Dillon, John M.; Smith, Andrew. Series: The Enneads of Plotinus. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
Plotinus' Treatise V.1 comes closer than any other to providing an outline of his entire spiritual and metaphysical system, and as such it may serve to some degree as an introduction to his philosophy. It addresses in condensed form a great many topics to which Plotinus elsewhere devotes extended discussion, including the problem of the multiple self; eternity and time; the unity-in-duality of intellect and the intelligible; and the derivation of intelligible being from the One. Above all, it shows that the so-called three hypostases -soul, intellect, and the One-are best understood not as a sequence of three things ... Read more
Plotinus' Treatise V.1 comes closer than any other to providing an outline of his entire spiritual and metaphysical system, and as such it may serve to some degree as an introduction to his philosophy. It addresses in condensed form a great many topics to which Plotinus elsewhere devotes extended discussion, including the problem of the multiple self; eternity and time; the unity-in-duality of intellect and the intelligible; and the derivation of intelligible being from the One. Above all, it shows that the so-called three hypostases -soul, intellect, and the One-are best understood not as a sequence of three things ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parmenides Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
The Enneads of Plotinus
Condition
New
Weight
274g
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Las Vegas, United States
ISBN
9781930972919
SKU
V9781930972919
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About Eric David Perl
Eric D. Perl is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2007), and Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition (Brill Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition Series, 2014), as well as numerous ... Read more
Reviews for Plotinus Ennead V.1: On the Three Primary Levels of Reality
Ably translated into English and provided with an informative introduction and commentary by Eric De. Perl - Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University - Los Angeles Plotinus Ennead V.1: On the Three Primary Levels of Reality: Translation, with an Introduction and Commentary comes closer than any other to providing an outline of ... Read more