Ennead IV.7 is a very early treatise (second according to Porphyry's chronological table), and unlike the many treatises devoted to attempts at untangling various issues Plotinus found problematic in Plato's thinking, this one presents the teachings of the other main schools current in Plotinus' day: the Stoics, Epicureans, Pythagoreans, and Peripatetics, all of whom presented soul as something material or as contingent upon material soul, and so as being neither truly immortal nor imperishable.
It includes observations on many mainly Stoic doctrines on perception, memory, sensation, thought, virtue, powers of material bodies, mixture and reproduction (Chapters 1-83); on Pythagorean attunement (84); and on Peripatetic entelechy (85). In Chapters 9-10 Plotinus presents, in broad terms, Plato's doctrines on soul's immortality-mainly that of the individual soul, but a fortiori that of the soul of the cosmos. These chapters offer some of Plotinus' most powerful prose.
He is not concerned to prove the soul's immortality-that was an uncontroversial tenet of Platonism, to be taken for granted. In this treatise Plotinus is laying down the in-disputable foundations for his later writings.
| ISBN: | 9781930972957 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2016 |
| Author: | Plotinus |
| Publisher: | Parmenides Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 337 pages |
| Series: | The Enneads of Plotinus |
| Genres: |
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge |
Ennead IV.7 is a very early treatise (second according to Porphyry's chronological table), and unlike the many treatises devoted to attempts at untangling various issues Plotinus found problematic in Plato's thinking, this one presents the teachings of the other main schools current in Plotinus' day: the Stoics, Epicureans, Pythagoreans, and Peripatetics, all of whom presented soul as something material or as contingent upon material soul, and so as being neither truly immortal nor imperishable.It includes observations on many mainly Stoic doctrines on perception, memory, sensation, thought, virtue, powers of material bodies, mixture and reproduction (Chapters 1-83); on Pythagorean attunement (84); and on Peripatetic entelechy (85). In Chapters 9-10 Plotinus presents, in broad terms, Plato's doctrines on soul's immortality-mainly that of the individual soul, but a fortiori that of the soul of the cosmos.
Plotinus Ennead IV.7 features in the following genres: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
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Plotinus Ennead IV.7 was written by Plotinus and published by Parmenides Publishing
Plotinus Ennead IV.7 has 337 pages
Yes it is part of The Enneads of Plotinus series
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