My name is Mihai Maga and I'm attending doctoral studies on ancient and medieval philosophy here in Cluj, Romania. I joined this workgroup recently and I work...
Dear Mihai, You would do well to join the Yahoo list run by Cosmin Andron, which regularly posts events and publications of interest to Neoplatonic scholars. ...
I am pleased to announce the formation of a new group for slow readings of Plato's Apology of Socrates. The discussion leader will be Angela Cembrola who has...
... Here is the picture of matter in its evil aspects: "The bodily Kind, in that it partakes of Matter is an evil thing." "Then if the Reasoning-Faculty too...
I just finished reading the first Ennead, and luckily found this group. I'm an amateur and confused, and I'm debating if I should even continue reading if I'm...
Hello my name is Angelina and I am a student learning about Plotinus. I was just wondering what is everybody's opinion about the relevance of Plotinus's...
Angelina asks about the relevance of Plotinus's philosophy for today's psychologists. For what it's worth, I've written several articles that attempt to make a...
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Jul 5, 2003 6:29 am
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Lookat at Dodds in The Journal of Romans studies 50 (1960): 1-7 and passim in Greeks and the Irrational for the arguement that th moedern understanding of the...
Dear Angelina, Besides the bibliography metnioned in the previous e-mails, there is also a relevant article from Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer, The intellect in...
Dear Angelina, Besides the bibliography metnioned in the previous e-mails, there is also a relevant article from Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer, The intellect in...
hello my name is John; I just joined and was looking for some help. I want to find out more information about Plotinus' relation to Aristotle. The pupblic...
Dear John, Plotinus' Enneads is full of direct and indirect references to Aristotle. We can find this passages at the OCT Index Fontium ed. by Henry Schwyzer,...
Cleary, John, "Working Through Puzzles with Aristotle," Jour. Neopl. St. 1 (1993). Corrigan, Kevin., "The Internal Dimensions of the Sensible Object in the...
I will be away from internet access from August 10 until August 17 (I will be vacationing in a cottage on the shore of the Black Sea in Sarpi -- about 130 km....
Anyone interested in critquing this summary of Plotinus' theology. You don't need to cite Latin. Thanks we Plotinus Plotinus' metaphysic includes Soul, God...
Wayne Estes
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Sep 13, 2003 4:12 am
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This invitation pertains to two different groups. One is the plato-phaedo list, the other is a list called philosophy2. Both are groups that existed in the...
Plotinus is explaining how it is that the soul may grasp unity first, and the multiplicity of the object afterwards, and ends this section with the words: "For...
I think it seems reasonalbe that James is indebted to Platonism here--although I have never studied James and have no idea what hsi gneral attitude to...
What follows is my interpretation of Ennead V.3.5, and I would appreciate any corrections, additions, or general comments: In our perception of things there...
Hi just wanted to say hello as I'm new to this group. I've just purchased a copy of the Enneads, from Penguin Classics, and am intending a very slow read. I'm...
"If you and I banter a bit we may entice the heavies into knocking a bit of sense into us" The only way to learn :-) "...in my humble opinion, a very slow read...
... It helps to do some research into Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics before tackling Plotinus. ... I'm afraid to admit that I've read Plotinus with a very...
Greetings, ... Discard them. I agree with Andy that one should approach Plotinus' philosophy "without preconceptions." But I will add that at times Plotinus ...
Bonjour, "> > Q: I've seen Plotinus classed as a Idealistic Monist a Pantheist and ... I think that the question of Plotin's monism or dualism is far from any...
Is the One personal ? I believe that Hypostasis is translated as person. I understand that the One isn't a person in the normal understanding of the word. The...
... No, the One is not personal. In fact, it's not anything -- the better way of approaching the One is by considering it the negation of all attributes (not ...
"This is known as the "apophatic theology", or the "via negativita" Ah! I suspected such. "The word "hypostasis" is obviously Greek, and can be broken down ...
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