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  title info:
    title: Plotinus on intellect
  name:
    name part: Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Oxford University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Clarendon Press
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 232 pages)
  abstract: Plotinus (205-269 AD) is considered the founder of Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophical movement of late antiquity, and a rich seam of current scholarly interest. Whilst Plotinus' influence on the subsequent philosophical tradition was enormous, his ideas can also be seen as the culmination of some implicit trends in the Greek tradition from Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. Emilsson's in-depth study focuses on Plotinus' notion of Intellect, which comes second in his hierarchical model of reality, after the One, the unknowable first cause of everything. As opposed to ordinary human discursive thinking, Intellect's thought is all-at-once, timeless, truthful, and a direct intuition into 'the things themselves'; it is presumably not even propositional. Emilsson discusses and explains this strong notion of non-discursive thought and explores Plotinus' insistence that this must be the primary form of thought. Plotinus' doctrine of Intellect raises a host of questions that Emilsson addresses. First, Intellect's thought is described as an attempt to grasp the One and at the same time as self-thought. How are these two claims related? How are they compatible? What lies in Plotinus' insistence that Intellect's thought is a thought of itself? Second, Plotinus gives two minimum requirements of thought: that it must involve a distinction between thinker and object of thought, and that the object itself must be varied. How are these two pluralist claims related? Third, what is the relation between Intellect as a thinker and Intellect as an object of thought? Plotinus' position here seems to amount to a form of idealism, and this is explored.-- Book jacket.
  table of contents: Emanation and activity -- The genesis of intellect -- Intellect and being -- Discursive and non-discursive thought.
  note: Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-219) and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plotinus
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plotin
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plotinus
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plotin
    topic: nous (Griechisch)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plotinus
  subject:
    topic: Thought and thinking
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Thought and thinking
  subject:
    topic: Thinking
  subject:
    topic: Pensée
  subject:
    topic: Pensée
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: thinking
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: History & Surveys
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  subject:
    topic: Thought and thinking
  subject:
    topic: Thought and thinking
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Intellekt
  classification: B693.Z7 E95 2007
  classification: 186.4
  classification: CD 6467
  classification: 5,1
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