concepts structures » conceptual structure (Expand Search), context structure (Expand Search), contextual structures (Expand Search)
structures four » structures south (Expand Search), structures john (Expand Search), structures roads (Expand Search)
four plotinus » four points (Expand Search), from plotinus (Expand Search)
Plotinus on Beauty : Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity /
:
"In this book, Ota Gál presents a new analysis of Plotinus' conception of beauty, beginning from a close reading of treatises I.6 and V.8, which link beauty with the unified multiplicity of Intellect. This account is subsequently placed in a hierarchical and structural context in VI.2 and VI.6 and connected to illumination in VI.7, enabling us to determine the meaning of the predicate "beauty" at different ontological levels. For Plotinus, beauty is ultimately the illuminated unity in multiplicity of Intellect, which, as the manifestation of the Good, simultaneously enables the soul's ascent and threatens to bind the soul to itself"--
:
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004510203
9789004510197