Plotinus and Epicurus (eBook, ePUB)

Matter, Perception, Pleasure
Redaktion: Longo, Angela

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume investigates the reasons why Plotinus, a philosopher inspired by Plato, made critical use of Epicurean philosophy. Eminent scholars show that some fundamental Epicurean conceptions pertaining to ethics, physics, epistemology and theology are drawn upon in the Enneads to discuss crucial notions such as pleasure and happiness, providence and fate, matter and the role of sense perception, intuition and intellectual evidence in relation to the process of knowledge acquisition. By focusing on the meaning of these terms in Epicureanism, Plotinus deploys sophisticated methods of comparative analysis and argumentative procedures that ultimately lead him to approach certain aspects of Epicurus' philosophy as a benchmark for his own theories and to accept, reject or discredit the positions of authors of his own day. At the same time, these discussions reveal what aspects of Epicurean philosophy were still perceived to be of vital relevance in the third century AD.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316659762
• Artikelnr.: 52972129

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Daniela Patrizia Taormina; Introduction Angela Longo and Daniela
Patrizia Taormina; Part I. Historical Overview: 1. The school and texts of
Epicurus in the early centuries of the Roman empire Tiziano Dorandi; Part
II. Common Anti-Epicurean Arguments in Plotinus: 2. The mention of Epicurus
in Plotinus' tr. 33 (Enn. II 9) in the context of the polemics between
Pagans and Christians in the second-third century AD: parallels between
Celsus, Plotinus and Origen Angela Longo; 3. Epicureans and Gnostics in tr.
47 (Enn. III 2) 7.29-41 Manuel Mazzetti; 4. 'Heavy birds' in tr. 5 (Enn. V
9) 1.8: References to Epicureanism and the problem of pleasure in Plotinus
Mauricio Pagotto Marsola; 5. Plotinus, Epicurus and the problem of
intellectual evidence: tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1 Pierre-Marie Morel; 6. 'What is
known through sense perception is an image'. Plotinus' tr. 32 (Enn. V 5)
1.12-19: an anti-Epicurean argument? Daniela Patrizia Taormina; Part III.
Plotinus' Criticism of Epicurean Doctrines: 7. Corporeal matter,
indefiniteness and multiplicity: Plotinus' critique of Epicurean atomism in
tr. 12 (Enn. II 4) 7.20-8 Marco Ninci; 8. Plotinus' reception of Epicurean
atomism in On Fate, tr. 3 (Enn. III 1) 1-3 Erik Eliasson; Part IV.
Epicureans Elements in Plotinus: Some Instances: 9. Athroa epibol¿: on an
Epicurean formula in Plotinus' work Andrei Cornea; 10. Plotinus and
Epicurus on pleasure and happiness Alessandro Linguiti.