Plotinus in dialogue with the Gnostics /

The point of view put forth in the following pages differs greatly from the common perspective according to which the treatises 30 to 33 constitute a single work, a Großschrift , and this single work, Plotinus' essential response to the Gnostics. Our perspective is that of an ongoing discussion...

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Main Author: Narbonne, Jean-Marc, 1957-

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 11.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004222823.

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505 0 0 |a Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Study One.The Controversy over the Generation of Matter in Plotinus:The Riddle Resolved? -- Study Two.The Riddle of the Partly Undescendend Soul in Plotinus: The Gnostic/Hermetic Path of the ὁμοούσιος -- Study Three. A Doctrinal Evolution in Plotinus? The Weakness of the Soul in Its Relation to Evil -- Study Four. A New Sign of the Impact of the Quarrel against the Gnostics on Plotinus'Thought: Two Modes of Reascent in  (VI ) and  (VI ) -- Study Five. A New Type of Causality: Plotinian Contemplative Demiurgy -- Study Six. New Reflections on God as CAUSA SUI in Plotinus and Its Possible Gnostic Sources -- Works Consulted -- Index Nominum. 
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520 |a The point of view put forth in the following pages differs greatly from the common perspective according to which the treatises 30 to 33 constitute a single work, a Großschrift , and this single work, Plotinus' essential response to the Gnostics. Our perspective is that of an ongoing discussions with his "Gnostic"-yet Platonizing-friends, which started early in his writings (at least treatise 6), developed into what we could call a Großzyklus (treatises 27 to 39), and went on in later treatises as well (e. g. 47-48, 51). The prospect of an ongoing discussion with the Gnostics bears an additional virtue, that of allowing for a truly dynamic understanding of the Plotinian corpus. 
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