The heart of Plotinus
Subtitle: the essential Eneads including Porphyry's On the cave of the nymphs
By: edited by  Algis Uždavinys ; foreword by Jay Bregman.
Contributors: Uždavinys, Algis.
Series: The library of perennial philosophy
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781933316697
Subjects: Plotinus; Plotinus; Porphyry, -- ca. 234-ca. 305; Porphyry, -- ca. 234-ca. 305
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Jay Bregman; title: The philosophy of Plotinus the Egyptian / by Algis Uždavinys; title: Plotinus and his master Ammonius; title: Plotinus and his school in Rome; title: Plotinus and the tradition of hellenic philosophy; title: The metaphysics of Plotinus; title: Mystical experience, self-knowledge, and union with the one; title: Plotinus between east and west; title: Remarks on Stephen MacKenna's translation; title: Plotinus : the Enneads; title: Enn. I.2: on the virtues; title: Enn. I.3: on dialectic; title: Enn. I.6: on beauty; title: Enn. II.9: against the gnostics; title: Enn. III.2: on providence (I); title: Enn. III.5: on love; title: Enn. III.6: on the impassivity of the unembodied; title: Enn. III.8: on nature, contemplation, and the one; title: Enn. IV.3: problems of the soul (I); title: Enn. IV.4: problems of the soul (II); title: Enn. IV.8: the soul's descent into body; title: Enn. V.8: on the intelligible beauty; title: Enn. VI.5: on the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (II); title: Enn. VI.7: how the multiplicity of the ideal-forms came into being and on the good; title: Enn. VI.8: on free will and the will of the one; title: Enn. VI.9: on the good, or the one; title: Porphyry's On the cave of the nymphs and the spiritual exegesis of homer by Algis Uždavinys; title: Porphyry and his works; title: Odysseus as a philosopher and spiritual hero; title: Porphyry's allegorical interpretation of Homer; title: Numenius and his pythagorean philosophy; title: Cronius, the companion of numenius; title: Remarks on Thomas Taylor's translation; title: Porphyry : on the cave of the nymphs.