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Ricoeur on Plotinus: Negation and Forms of Populism
Critical Hermeneutics, 2019 Plotinus developed a metaphorical approach to language that allowed him to offer a transcendent vision of God, a paradox that made clear how ineffably and incontrovertibly unclear God is – as is our relationship with Him. Ricoeur bridged the centuries by
Alison Scott-Baumann
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Plotino e o argumento do terceiro homem
Voluntas, 2020 This paper proposes to pose the question of a possible position of Plotinus with regard to the Argument of the Third Man (TMA): first, we will examine if it is possible to attribute to Plotinus a position as regards TMA such as it appears in the ...
Luca Pitteloud
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La visione politica in Plotino
Noctua, 2016 Contrary to the common opinion of the scarce important of politics in Plotinus’ thought, in this paper the relevance of this notion is stressed. Even though Plotinus’ main interest is evidently toward interiority and rational spirituality, men’s actual ...
Franco De Capitani
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Stoic Influences on Plotinus’ Theodicy?
Elpis, 2018 The aim of this paper is twofold: a) to identify the Stoic-attempted solutions to the problem of evil, allegedly appropriated by Plotinus and made use of in his main work on theodicy, which was divided by Porphyry into two treatises and published under ...
Viktor Ilievski
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Plotinus and Augustine on evil and matter
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2022 The aim of this paper is to examine whether and, if so, how far, the Augustinian notion of malum is related to Plotinus’ concept of evil, as it appears in Ennead I. 8 [51].
Maurizio Filippo Di Silva
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L’Intellect - Kronos chez Plotin. La place du mythe dans la noétique plotinienne
Methodos, 2016 The reference to the myth of Kronos in the work of Plotinus occupies a place that is not easy to define. The myth is not regarded part of Plotinian metaphysics, although the relations of Kronos-Intellect with the One and the Soul constitute particularly ...
Izabela Jurasz
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Matter in Plotinus's Normative Ontology. [PDF]
, 2004 To most interpreters, the case seems to be clear: Plotinus identifies matter and evil, as he bluntly states in Enn. I.8[51] that ‘last matter’ is ‘evil’, and even ‘evil itself’.
Schäfer, Christian
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Erôs and Intelligible Desire in Plotinus’ Enneads
Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2022 In Ennead III.5 On Love, Plotinus' discussion of erôs is underlined by Plato’s discourse on love in the Symposium and the Phaedrus.[1] Plotinus conceives erôs as a purified power, which directs the soul to the intelligible realm of beauty and the world ...
Maria Kristina Papanidi
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Manuscript “Neoplatonic Philosophy” by Pamfil D. Yurkevych: source criticism
Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2018 This article is the first to bring into scientific discussion and to provide a historico-philosophical analysis of a manuscript “Neoplatonic Philosophy from the archive of Pamfil Danylovych Yurkevych (1826–1874). The reviewed manuscript belongs to P.
Anna Pylypiuk
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The Ascent of the Soul as Spiritual Exercise in Plotinus’ Enneads
Mnemosyne, 2020 The purpose of the article is to demonstrate that the ascent of the soul as one of the fundamental spiritual exercises in Plotinus’ philosophy can be approached from three perspectives: anabatic proper, aphaeretic and agnoetic.
M. Stróżyński
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