Plotinus in dialogue with the Gnostics /

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-

Format: eBook

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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Plotinus. > Enneads.
Gnosticism.

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Call Number: B693.E63 N37 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.