The Enneads of Plotinus : : A Commentary | Volume 2 / / Paul Kalligas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Kalligas, Paul,
• MitwirkendeR: Koutras, Nickolaos,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 4 b/w illus. 2 tables.

The second volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophyThis is the second volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers Enneads IV and V, which focus on two of the principal “hypostases” of Plotinus’s ontological system, namely the soul and the Intellect. Paul Kalligas provides an analytical exegesis of the arguments, along with an account of Plotinus’s principal sources, references to other parts of his work, and a systematic evaluation of his overarching theoretical aspirations. A landmark contribution to Plotinus scholarship, this is the most detailed and extensive commentary ever written for the whole of the Enneads.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Volume -- Main Abbreviations -- Fourth Ennead -- IV 2 [4]. On the Essence of the Soul I -- IV 1 [21]. On the Essence of the Soul II -- IV 3–5 [27–29]. On Difficulties about the Soul: Books I–III -- IV 6 [41]. On Sense-Perception and Memory -- IV 7 [2]. On the Immortality of the Soul -- IV 8 [6]. On the Descent of the Soul into Bodies -- IV 9 [8]. If All Souls Are One -- Fifth Ennead -- V 1 [10]. On the Three Primary Hypostases -- V 2 [11]. On the Origin and Order of the Beings That Come after the First -- V 3 [49]. On the Knowing Hypostases and That Which Is Beyond -- V 4 [7]. How That Which Is after the First Comes from the First, and On the One -- V 5 [32]. That the Intelligibles Are Not outside the Intellect, and On the Good -- V 6 [24]. On the Fact That That Which Is beyond Being Does Not Think, and On What Is the Primary and What the Secondary Thinking Principles -- V 7 [18]. On the Question Whether There Are Ideas of Particulars -- V 8 [31]. On the Intelligible Beauty -- V 9 [5]. On Intellect, the Forms, and Being -- Appendix: Plotinus in the Arabic Tradition -- List of Variant Readings -- Key to the Chronological Order of Plotinus’ Treatises -- Suggested Further Readings on Individual Treatises -- Figures -- Index of Passages Cited