Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Plotinus
- 2 Plotinus's metaphysics of the One
- 3 The hierarchical ordering of reality in Plotinus
- 4 On soul and intellect
- 5 Essence and existence in the Enneads
- 6 Plotinus on the nature of physical reality
- 7 Plotinus on matter and evil
- 8 Eternity and time
- 9 Cognition and its object
- 10 Self-knowledge and subjectivity in the Enneads
- 11 Plotinus
- 12 Human freedom in the thought of Plotinus
- 13 An ethic for the late antique sage
- 14 Plotinus and language
- 15 Plotinus and later Platonic philosophers on the causality of the First Principle
- 16 Plotinus and Christian philosophy
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Plotinus
- 2 Plotinus's metaphysics of the One
- 3 The hierarchical ordering of reality in Plotinus
- 4 On soul and intellect
- 5 Essence and existence in the Enneads
- 6 Plotinus on the nature of physical reality
- 7 Plotinus on matter and evil
- 8 Eternity and time
- 9 Cognition and its object
- 10 Self-knowledge and subjectivity in the Enneads
- 11 Plotinus
- 12 Human freedom in the thought of Plotinus
- 13 An ethic for the late antique sage
- 14 Plotinus and language
- 15 Plotinus and later Platonic philosophers on the causality of the First Principle
- 16 Plotinus and Christian philosophy
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus , pp. i - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996