Book contents
- Plotinus and Epicurus
- Plotinus and Epicurus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Transliteration
- Introduction*
- Part I Historical overview
- Part II Common anti-Epicurean arguments in Plotinus
- Chapter 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 to third centuries AD
- Chapter 3 Epicureans and Gnostics in tr. 47 (Enn. III 2) 7.29–41
- Chapter 4 ‘Heavy birds’ in tr. 5 (Enn. V 9) 1.8
- Chapter 5 Plotinus, Epicurus and the problem of intellectual evidence
- Chapter 6 ‘What is known through sense perception is an image’. Plotinus' tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1.12–19
- Part III Plotinus' criticism of Epicurean doctrines
- Part IV Epicurean elements in Plotinus
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- Index of modern authors
- Index of main concepts
Chapter 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 to third centuries AD
Parallels between Celsus, Plotinus and Origen*
from Part II - Common anti-Epicurean arguments in Plotinus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2016
- Plotinus and Epicurus
- Plotinus and Epicurus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Transliteration
- Introduction*
- Part I Historical overview
- Part II Common anti-Epicurean arguments in Plotinus
- Chapter 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 to third centuries AD
- Chapter 3 Epicureans and Gnostics in tr. 47 (Enn. III 2) 7.29–41
- Chapter 4 ‘Heavy birds’ in tr. 5 (Enn. V 9) 1.8
- Chapter 5 Plotinus, Epicurus and the problem of intellectual evidence
- Chapter 6 ‘What is known through sense perception is an image’. Plotinus' tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1.12–19
- Part III Plotinus' criticism of Epicurean doctrines
- Part IV Epicurean elements in Plotinus
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- Index of modern authors
- Index of main concepts
- Type
- Chapter
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- Plotinus and EpicurusMatter, Perception, Pleasure, pp. 51 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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