Plotinus on What We Think We Are /

Plotinus on What We Think We Are /

The Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus invites us to take part in his philosophizing when he encourages his readers to think about what they think they are, as living beings, human beings, as rational beings, ethical subjects and as philosophers. He is interested in what we say about ourselves in ordi...

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Main Author: Stock, Wiebke-Marie (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; 34.

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Ancient Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Social & Political Philosophy.

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Call Number: PZ7.S588

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Soul
  • 2 "We"-self, I, person?
  • 3 Methodology
  • 4 Plan
  • 1 Plotinus on the "we"-with, against and beyond Plato
  • 2 Each individual one of us
  • 1 Soul and composite being
  • 2 Mine, yours, ours
  • 3 Individuality
  • 4 We living beings
  • 3 We as ethical subject
  • 1 Our proper activity
  • 2 Masters of ourselves
  • 3 We, the sage
  • 4 The location of the we
  • 1 The One and "we"
  • 2 Our intellect
  • 5 We as the center of consciousness
  • 1 Inner consciousness
  • 2 Unconscious to us
  • 3 The daimôn and "we"
  • 4 Consciousness
  • 5 Memory
  • 6 We are double
  • 1 Who are we?
  • 2 The god in us
  • 3 We and the image of the soul
  • 4 The passions and we
  • 7 We philosophers
  • 8 We are multiple
  • 1 Soul and body
  • 2 We perceivers
  • 3 We are most of all there
  • 4 We are multiple
  • 5 We are double
  • 6 Consciousness
  • 7 We or the soul?
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.