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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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Desire in Ennead IV. 3–4

Elpis, 2018
In my paper I examine Plotinus’ theory of desire in his middle period, which can be found in the most elaborated way in Ennead IV. 3–4 . Plotinus describes the desire by the terms of sense-perception: while physical affection (pathos) belongs only to ...
Ágoston Guba
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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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Plotino y la novedad de su principio metafísico

Franciscanum, 2021
The histories of philosophy places Plotinus as the first thinker belonging to the third period of the Platonic school, entitled with a historiographical category renowned as Neoplatonism.
Fernando Gabriel Martin De Blassi
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
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Plotinus and Mulla Sadra on Attributes of Soul; Review and Comparison [PDF]

حکمت معاصر, 2016
The purpose of this research is to study, in a descriptive-analytic way, one important similarity, among the other, between the philosophical views of Plotinus and Mulla Sadra on ‘soul’ in three periods: before, along, and after the body.
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The Incarnational Aesthetic of David Brown☆

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The notion of incarnation has historically been a prominent concept for the acceptance of images and the interpretation of art within Christianity. A contemporary proponent of this line of reasoning about the theological potential of art is David Brown, who builds his theology of culture on the doctrine of incarnation. This article presents an
Filip Taufer
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Plotinus: The First Philosopher of the Unconscious [PDF]

, 2014
Plotinus is sometimes referred to as “the first philosopher of the unconscious.” In his 1960 essay “Consciousness and Unconsciousness in Plotinus,” Hans Rudolph Schwyzer called Plotinus “the discoverer of the unconscious.” What exactly was Plotinus ...
Hendrix, John S
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Riflessioni sul demiurgo in Plotino a partire dall’interpretazione del Timeo e dell’Epinomide

Peitho
The problem of the interpretation of the Timaeus represents one of the greatest exegetical challenges for Plotinus. For Plotinus the Timaeus is a problematic dialogue due to its mythical-allegorical language and the fact that some doctrines in the work ...
Enrico Volpe
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