Plotinus on the Soul
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Plotinus on the Soul

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Plotinus on the Soul

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Plotinus on the Soul is a study of Plotinus' psychology, which is arguably the most sophisticated Platonist theory of the soul in antiquity. Plotinus offers a Platonist response to Aristotelian and Stoic conceptions of the soul that is at the same time an innovative interpretation of Plato's Timaeus. He considers the notion of the soul to be crucial for explaining the rational order of the world. To this end, he discusses not only different types of individual soul (such as the souls of the stars, and human and animal souls) but also an entity that he was the first to introduce into philosophy: the so-called hypostasis Soul. This is the first study to provide a detailed explanation of this entity, but it also discusses the other types of soul, with an emphasis on the human soul, and explains Plotinus' original views on rational thought and its relation to experience.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781316383148
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface and acknowledgements
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 Unity and creation: why Plotinus introduced thehypostasis Soul
  11. Chapter 2 The hypostasis Soul
  12. Chapter 3 The hypostasis Soul and its relation to individual souls
  13. Chapter 4 The individual soul in the intelligible and in the sensible world
  14. Chapter 5 Divine individual souls
  15. Chapter 6 The human soul: its descent and its confusion in the sensible world
  16. Chapter 7 The human soul: the higher and the lower soul
  17. Chapter 8 The soul and the body
  18. Bibliography
  19. Indices
  20. Index locorum