The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

by Lloyd Gerson (Editor), James Wilberding (Editor)

Overview

Plotinus stands at a crossroads in ancient philosophy, between the more than 600 years of philosophy that came before him and the new Platonic tradition. He was the first and perhaps the greatest systematizer of Plato's thought, and all later students of Plato in the following centuries approached Plato through him. This Companion from a new generation of ancient philosophy scholars reflects the current state of research on Plotinus, with chapters on topics including mathematics, fate and determinism, happiness, the theory of forms, categories of reality, matter and evil, and Plotinus' legacy. The volume offers an accessible overview of the thought of one of the pivotal figures in the history of philosophy, and reveals his importance as a thinker whose impact goes far beyond his importance as an interpreter of Plato.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108726238
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/02/2022
Series:	Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.02(d)

About the Author

Lloyd P. Gerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of From Plato to Platonism (2013), and the editor of The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Cambridge 2010) and Plotinus: The Enneads (Cambridge 2018).

James Wilberding is Professor of Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy at Humboldt University, Berlin. He is the author of Plotinus' Cosmology: A Study of Ennead 2.1 (2006) and Forms, Souls and Embryos: Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction (2017), and the editor of World Soul: A History of the Concept (2021).

Table of Contents

Introduction Lloyd P. Gerson; 1. Plato and Aristotle in the enneads Eric D. Perl; 2. Plotinus, gnosticism, and christianity Sebastian Gertz; 3. From Plotinus to Proclus Marije Martijn; 4. The one as first principle of all Gwenaëlle Aubry; 5. Plotinus and the theory of forms Mauro Bonazzi; 6. Plotinus on number Svetla Slaveva-Griffin; 7. Plotinus on categories Michael Griffin; 8. Plotinus on knowledge Christian Tornau; 9. The embodied soul Damian Caluori; 10. Self-knowledge and self-reflexivity Pauliina Remes; 11. Eternity and time Riccardo Chiaradonna; 12. Composition of sensible bodies D. M. Hutchinson; 13. Nature: Plotinus' fourth hypostasis? James Wilberding; 14. Matter and evil Jan Opsomer; 15. Virtue and happiness Miira Tuominen; 16. Plotinus on providence and fate Christopher Isaac Noble; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index.