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Plotinus: Ennead I.6: On Beauty: Translation, with an Introduction and Commentary
The treatise is at once a philosophical search for the nature of the divine and at the same time an encouragement to the individual to aspire to this goal by taking his start from the beauty which is experienced in this world; for it is an image of transcendent beauty. This upward movement of the treatise reflects throughout the speech of Socrates in Plato's Symposium in which he recounts the exhortation of the priestess Diotima to ascend from earthly to transcendent beauty, which for Plotinus is identified with the divine."
Book Details
- Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
- Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2016
- Pages: 158
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.40in - 5.00in - 0.70in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9781930972933
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical• Reference
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What people are saying
Looking for your next read? You're in the right place. Personalized recs, alternating Wednesdays and Thursdays and always here: https://t.co/WMEobU4K8g
@IMassardo @elizmccracken Ooh, loved her collection, The Souvenir Museum, from last year. How about Less by Andrew Sean Greer or On Beauty by Zadie Smith? And if you're willing to check out nonfiction, go with Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper-Jones -- I think it might have a similar feel.
"For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls"
"Matter, for Plotinus, has no qualities and is to be identified with total deprivation. It is the facilitator of three-dimension- ality in the sense that form may, by being reflected on it as on a mirror, create the manifestation of a three-dimensional world." Andrew Smith
What people are saying
Looking for your next read? You're in the right place. Personalized recs, alternating Wednesdays and Thursdays and always here: https://t.co/WMEobU4K8g
@IMassardo @elizmccracken Ooh, loved her collection, The Souvenir Museum, from last year. How about Less by Andrew Sean Greer or On Beauty by Zadie Smith? And if you're willing to check out nonfiction, go with Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper-Jones -- I think it might have a similar feel.
"For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls"
"Matter, for Plotinus, has no qualities and is to be identified with total deprivation. It is the facilitator of three-dimension- ality in the sense that form may, by being reflected on it as on a mirror, create the manifestation of a three-dimensional world." Andrew Smith