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Dominic J. O'Meara

Autor/a de Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads

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This is a very fine small book. It drills down into several knotty spots in the Enneads, explicating Plotinus's sometimes far-from-crystalline arguments. Nevertheless, I think the best thing this book has done for *me* is suggest most strongly that I really don't want to go further into Plotinus without a generous grounding in Plato and Aristotle. Of course someone else might want to buck such a feeling, and for some it might even be advantageous to go that way -- but for me, no.
 
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tungsten_peerts | Jan 31, 2023 |
The author argues (against the grain) that there was an element of political philosophy in neoplatonism. That element remained very closely attached to Plato's philosophy. The divinization of the soul through political virtue and the divinization of the state through political science are its twin components. The author has a point in re-reading the neoplatonists from this perspective, but the political thought he reveals hardly deserves more than a footnote in the history of western political thought due to its lack of originality.… (més)
 
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