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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2022]
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| Series: | Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition,
volume 29 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004510203 9004510206 |
| ISSN: | 1871-188X ; |