Gary SJ Gurtler From the Alien to the Alone: A Study of Soul in Plotinus 9780813234519

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Автор: Gary SJ Gurtler
Название: From the Alien to the Alone: A Study of Soul in Plotinus
ISBN: 9780813234519
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Философия религии

ISBN-10: 0813234514
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.51 кг.
Дата издания: 30.01.2022
Язык: English
Размер: 148 x 228 x 27
Ключевые слова: Philosophy of religion, PHILOSOPHY / Religious
Подзаголовок: A study of soul in plotinus
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Plotinus is often accused of writing haphazardly, with little concern for the integral unity of a treatise. By analyzing each treatise as a whole, From the Alien to the Alone finds much evidence that he constructed them skillfully, with the parts working together in subtle ways. This insight was also key in translating several central passages by considering the flow of the argument as a whole to shed light on the difficulties in these passages as well as reveal the structure often latent in particular treatise. The volume also serves to clarify Plotinus rich use of images. Commentators, for instance, tend to take the images of light and warmth to explain the relation of soul and body as in conflict, with light casting out warmth. A close look at the text, however, reveals that Plotinus uses each image to correct the limitations of the other. Thus, since the soul is incorporeal, it is actually more transcendent than light and as activating the body is more completely present than warmth. Similarly, recent commentators are quick to take the related impassibility of the soul as implying a Cartesian gap between body and soul. The problem Plotinus faces, however, is that his description of the souls pervasive presence in the body jeopardizes its impassibility as in the intelligible. His effort then is actually to introduce a gap that preserves the souls nature, rather than overcome a gap that would make the very existence of the body problematic.While this work confirms much recent scholarly consensus on Plotinus, many of Gurtlers interpretations and general conclusions give constructive challenges to some existing modes of understanding Plotinus thought. The arguments and their textual evidence, with the accompanying Greek, provide the reader with direct evidence for testing these conclusions as well as appreciating the nature of Plotinus philosophizing.
Дополнительное описание: Philosophy of religion

From the Alien to the Alone: A Study of Soul in Plotinus, Gary SJ Gurtler