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Author : D. M. Hutchinson
Release : 2018-04-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Plotinus on Consciousness by : D. M. Hutchinson
Download or read book Plotinus on Consciousness written by D. M. Hutchinson. This book was released on 2018-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the first theory of consciousness in Western philosophy, dispelling the dogma that consciousness studies begins with Descartes.
Author : D. M. Hutchinson
Release : 2018-04-26
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Plotinus on Consciousness by : D. M. Hutchinson
Download or read book Plotinus on Consciousness written by D. M. Hutchinson. This book was released on 2018-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plotinus is the first Greek philosopher to hold a systematic theory of consciousness. The key feature of his theory is that it involves multiple layers of experience: different layers of consciousness occur in different levels of self. This layering of higher modes of consciousness on lower ones provides human beings with a rich experiential world, and enables human beings to draw on their own experience to investigate their true self and the nature of reality. This involves a robust notion of subjectivity. However, it is a notion of subjectivity that is unique to Plotinus, and remarkably different from the Post-Cartesian tradition. Behind the plurality of terms Plotinus uses to express consciousness, and behind the plurality of entities to which Plotinus attributes consciousness (such as the divine souls and the hypostases), lies a theory of human consciousness. It is a Platonist theory shaped by engagement with rival schools of ancient thought.
Author : Stephen R. L. Clark
Release : 2018-02-09
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Plotinus by : Stephen R. L. Clark
Download or read book Plotinus written by Stephen R. L. Clark. This book was released on 2018-02-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Plotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, was also the creator of numerous myths, images, and metaphors, which have frequently been dismissed by modern scholars as merely ornamental. In this book, distinguished philosopher Stephen R. L. Clark shows that they form a vital set of spiritual exercises by which individuals can achieve one of Plotinus's most important goals: self-transformation through contemplation. Clark examines a variety of Plotinus's myths and metaphors within the cultural and philosophical context of his time, asking probing questions about their contemplative effects. Through rich images and structures, Clark casts Plotinus as a philosopher deeply concerned with philosophy as a way of life." -- Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson
Release : 2007-02-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Plotinus on Intellect by : Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson
Download or read book Plotinus on Intellect written by Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson. This book was released on 2007-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plotinus (205-269 AD) is considered the founder of Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophical movement of late antiquity, and a rich seam of current scholarly interest. Whilst Plotinus' influence on the subsequent philosophical tradition was enormous, his ideas can also be seen as the culmination of some implicit trends in the Greek tradition from Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.Emilsson's in-depth study focuses on Plotinus' notion of Intellect, which comes second in his hierarchical model of reality, after the One, unknowable first cause of everything. As opposed to ordinary human discursive thinking, Intellect's thought is all-at-once, timeless, truthful and a direct intuition into 'things themselves'; it is presumably not even propositional. Emilsson discusses and explains this strong notion of non-discursive thought and explores Plotinus' insistence that this mustbe the primary form of thought.Plotinus' doctrine of Intellect raises a host of questions that Emilsson addresses. First, Intellect's thought is described as an attempt to grasp the One and at the same time as self-thought. How are these two claims related? How are they compatible? What lies in Plotinus' insistence that Intellect's thought is a thought of itself? Second, Plotinus gives two minimum requirements of thought: that it must involve a distinction between thinker and object of thought, and that the object itselfmust be varied. How are these two pluralist claims related? Third, what is the relation between Intellect as a thinker and Intellect as an object of thought? Plotinus' position here seems to amount to a form of idealism, and this is explored.
Author : Porphyry
Release : 1988
Genre : Neoplatonism
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Book Synopsis Porphyry's Launching-points to the Realm of Mind by : Porphyry
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