Plotinus: The Road to Reality

Plotinus: The Road to Reality

Perhaps because he is strictly neither a classical nor a medieval philosopher, Plotinus' work has been rather reglected in the English-speaking world. The author has rescued him from this relative obscurity and has indicated some of the ways in which he has influenced both Christian and non-Christian philosophers.

J.M. Rist

Cambridge : Cambridge U.P.

1967

1. Introduction -- 2. A life for the sage -- 3. The Plotinian one -- 4. The one's knowledge -- 5. Beauty, the beautiful, and the good -- 6. Emanation and necessity -- 7. Logos -- 8. The sensible object -- 9. The descent of the soul -- 10. Man's free will -- 11. Happiness -- 12. The self and others -- 13. The originality of Plotinus -- 14. A common metaphor -- 15. Prayer -- 16. Mysticism -- 17. Neoplatonic faith -- 18. Conclusion.

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