This book is a philosophical study of two major thinkers who span the period of late antiquity: Plotinus, who establishes many of the central themes for later debate and establishes strategies of argument and interpretation, and Proclus, who develops a grand philosophical synthesis and provides original insights into a number of important problems regarding being and thinking, matter and evil.
This book is a philosophical study of two major thinkers who span the period of late antiquity: Plotinus, who establishes many of the central themes for later debate and establishes strategies of argument and interpretation, and Proclus, who develops a grand philosophical synthesis and provides original insights into a number of important problems regarding being and thinking, matter and evil.
Dmitri Nikulin is Professor of Philosophy and Chair at the New School for Social Research in New York. His interests range from ancient philosophy and early modern science to the philosophy of comedy and philosophy of history. He is the author of a number of books including Matter, Imagination and Geometry (2002), On Dialogue (2006), Dialectic and Dialogue (2010), Comedy, Seriously (2014), The Concept of History (2017), as well as the editor and co-editor of several volumes, including The Other Plato (2012), Memory: A History (2015), Philosophy and Power in Antiquity (2016) and Productive Imagination: Its History, Meaning and Significance (forthcoming).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Plotinus 1. The One and the Many 2. Number and Being 3. Eternity and Time 4. Unity and Individuation of the Soul 5. Memory and Recollection 6. Intelligible Matter Part II. Proclus 7. The Many and the One 8. Imagination and Mathematics 9. Beauty, Truth, and Being 10. The System of Physics 11. Matter and Evil Appendix 12. Indivisible Lines in Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics Bibliography and Abbreviations General Index Index auctorum
Introduction Part I. Plotinus 1. The One and the Many 2. Number and Being 3. Eternity and Time 4. Unity and Individuation of the Soul 5. Memory and Recollection 6. Intelligible Matter Part II. Proclus 7. The Many and the One 8. Imagination and Mathematics 9. Beauty, Truth, and Being 10. The System of Physics 11. Matter and Evil Appendix 12. Indivisible Lines in Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics Bibliography and Abbreviations General Index Index auctorum
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