Plotinus Ennead V.8 : On Intelligible Beauty
Subtitle: Translation with an Introduction and Commentary
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Published: Jan 31, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781930972650
Description: Plotinus’ Ennead V.8, originally part of a single work (with III.8, V.5, and II.9), provides the foundation for a positive view of the universe as an image of divine beauty against the Gnostic rejection of the world. Although it emphasizes the cosmic dimension of beauty, it is, as are most treatises of Plotinus, concerned with the individual soul. The notion that the artist has within him an idea of beauty that derives directly from the intelligible world in fact coincides with his theory that each one of us has access to Intellect through his or her own intellect. It is the exploitation of this theme that forms the central dynamic of the treatise, with its stress on our ability to "see" and be one with the intelligible world and its beauty.
Notes: Source title: Plotinus Ennead V.8: On Intelligible Beauty: Translation with an Introduction and Commentary (The Enneads of Plotinus)