Six Lectures on Plotinus and Gnosticism
In this book an attempt is made to single out those elements in the philosophical system of the Enneads that stand apart from the Platonist tradition. On the basis of an extensive analysis of fundamental texts the author shows that what Plotinus had in mind was a quite independent paradigm of metaphysical theology, with at its centre the human person.
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Six Lectures on Plotinus and Gnosticism
In this book an attempt is made to single out those elements in the philosophical system of the Enneads that stand apart from the Platonist tradition. On the basis of an extensive analysis of fundamental texts the author shows that what Plotinus had in mind was a quite independent paradigm of metaphysical theology, with at its centre the human person.
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Six Lectures on Plotinus and Gnosticism

Six Lectures on Plotinus and Gnosticism

by Th.G. Sinnige
Six Lectures on Plotinus and Gnosticism

Six Lectures on Plotinus and Gnosticism

by Th.G. Sinnige

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In this book an attempt is made to single out those elements in the philosophical system of the Enneads that stand apart from the Platonist tradition. On the basis of an extensive analysis of fundamental texts the author shows that what Plotinus had in mind was a quite independent paradigm of metaphysical theology, with at its centre the human person.

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ISBN-13: 9789401730068
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date: 04/09/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 285 KB

Table of Contents

I Emanation.- II Mysticism.- III The Soul’s Return to Her Origin in Alexandrian Literature.- IV The Chronological Development of Plotinus’ Theory of Soul.- V Conversion. The Late Treatises.- VI The Human Person.- Summary.- Selected Bibliography.
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