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Beyond the Polemics: Freedom and Necessity in Plotinus and St Maximus Confessor
Heythrop Journal - Quarterly Review of Philosophy and TheologyAbstract Abstract: The aim of this paper is to challenge the prevailing polemic between ‘necessary’ emanation and ‘free’ creation. I begin by arguing for the presence of freedom and volition in the emanationism of Plotinus. I then move on to explore the role of necessity in the creationism of Maximus. In both cases, I rely upon a twofold schematisation
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Why the One Cannot Have Parts: Plotinus on Divine Simplicity, Ontological Independence, and Perfect Being Theology [PDF]
Philosophical Quarterly, 2017 I use Plotinus to present absolute divine simplicity as the consequence of principles about metaphysical and explanatory priority to which most theists are already committed.
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Epoché, 2005
An examination of Plotinus's treatise on matter, II 4[12],reveals interesting paradoxes. He seems to use Aristotle's matter to explain Plato's receptade.Attention to the text reveals that both matter and the receptacle are, in fact, recast in terms of the otherness of Plato's Sophist. By this, Plotinus articulates how matter and the receptacle function
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An examination of Plotinus's treatise on matter, II 4[12],reveals interesting paradoxes. He seems to use Aristotle's matter to explain Plato's receptade.Attention to the text reveals that both matter and the receptacle are, in fact, recast in terms of the otherness of Plato's Sophist. By this, Plotinus articulates how matter and the receptacle function
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Christianity & Literature, 1995
Abstract This book is a guide to those wishing to read the works (the Enneads) of Plotinus, one of the greatest figures of ancient philosophy. The book provides an outline of Plotinus’ life and of the composition of the Enneads, placing Plotinus in the intellectual context of his time.
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Abstract This book is a guide to those wishing to read the works (the Enneads) of Plotinus, one of the greatest figures of ancient philosophy. The book provides an outline of Plotinus’ life and of the composition of the Enneads, placing Plotinus in the intellectual context of his time.
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2018
The philosophy of Plotinus plays a contradictory role in Giorgio Agamben’s corpus. He comments on Plotinus in a lapidary fashion in several articles and essays before commencing the Homo Sacer series, where he undertakes a longer and more ambiguous analysis of Plotinus in Opus Dei and The Use of Bodies. In Opus Dei, Agamben develops the brief criticism
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The philosophy of Plotinus plays a contradictory role in Giorgio Agamben’s corpus. He comments on Plotinus in a lapidary fashion in several articles and essays before commencing the Homo Sacer series, where he undertakes a longer and more ambiguous analysis of Plotinus in Opus Dei and The Use of Bodies. In Opus Dei, Agamben develops the brief criticism
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Reenvisioning Plotinus’ Doctrine of the Triad in Byzantine Christianity as a New Type of Ethics
Religions, 2023Olga V Chistyakova
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