The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

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.

An entirely new Companion on a pivotal figure in the history of philosophy
Essays by a new generation of scholars in philosophy in late antiquity
Summarizes the latest research on Plotinus

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Published: June 2022
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781108726238
Length: 400 pages
Dimensions: 229 × 151 × 26 mm
Weight: 0.74kg
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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
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Index Locorum
General Index.

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Lloyd P. Gerson, Eric D. Perl, Sebastian Gertz, Marije Martijn, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Mauro Bonazzi, Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Michael Griffin, Christian Tornau, Damian Caluori, Pauliina Remes, Riccardo Chiaradonna, D. M. Hutchinson, James Wilberding, Jan Opsomer, Miira Tuominen, Christopher Isaac Noble

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Lloyd Gerson , University of Toronto
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 , Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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).

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