Author : Plotinus
Release : 2015
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 346/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ennead VI.4 and VI.5 by : Plotinus

Download or read book Ennead VI.4 and VI.5 written by Plotinus. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ennead VI.4-5, originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus' most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intelligible and the sensible realms, addressing and coalescing two central issues in Platonism: the nature of the soul-body relationship and the nature of participation. Its main question is, How can soul animate bodies without sharing their extension? The treatise seems to have had considerable impact: it is much reflected in Porphyry's important work, Sententiae, and the doctrine of reception according to the capacity of the recipient, for which this treatise is the main source, resonated in medieval thinkers.