Damian Caluori (Texas Trinity University)

Plotinus on the Soul

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive study of Plotinus' theory of the soul for half a century. It shows how Plotinus derives his psychology from an innovative interpretation of Plato's Timaeus and proposes it as a response to Aristotelian and Stoic conceptions of the soul.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781107513839
• ISBN-10: 1107513839
• Artikelnr.: 53447514

Autorenporträt

Damian Caluori is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. His research focuses on ancient philosophy, with an emphasis on late ancient Platonism. He has published articles on Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Damascius and the Renaissance skeptic Franciscus Sanchez, whose main work, That Nothing Is Known, he co-translated from Latin into German. In 2013 he edited a volume on the philosophy of friendship, Thinking about Friendship. Historical and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Unity and creation: why Plotinus introduced the hypostasis Soul
2. The hypostasis Soul
3. The hypostasis Soul and its relation to individual souls
4. The individual soul in the intelligible and in the sensible world
5. Divine individual souls
6. The human soul: its descent and its confusion in the sensible world
7. The human soul: the higher and the lower soul
8. The soul and the body.