Culture and Philosophy in the Age of Plotinus 9781472598103

This book offers a survey of the teachings of, and relations between, four leading figures in third-century Platonism: L

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Culture and Philosophy in the Age of Plotinus
9781472598103

Professor Deck has undertaken a reappraisal of Plotinus' thought from the standpoint of a central doctrine in the E

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Plotinus, the father of Neoplatonism, lived in Rome during the third century AD. For many scholars -- not only classicis

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Discussions on akrasia (lack of control, or weakness of will) in Greek philosophy have been particularily vivid and inte

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The 13 contributions of this collective offer new and challenging ways of reading well-known and more neglected texts on

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Aesthetics & the Philosophy of Spirit examines the aesthetics of Plotinus, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, a

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William Christian has restored the text of the original 1959 edition. He has supplemented it with material from the broa

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The book is a philosophical and didactic discourse on thirty-six Igbo proverbs that center on the chicken. The chicken i

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Showing the ontological importance of eros within the philosophical systems inspired by Plato, Dimitrios A. Vasilakis ex

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This book explores the major philosophical issues in the historic interplay of Islamic and Jewish philosophy. The proble

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