Plotinus on beauty : Beauty as illuminated unity in multiplicity
- Leiden : Brill, [2022]
209 pages
Thèse: Université de Fribourg (Suisse), 2019
Published in:
- Studies in platonism, neoplatonism, and the platonic tradition. - 2022, vol. 29
English
In this book, Ota Gál presents a new analysis of Plotinus' conception of beauty, beginning from a close reading of treatises I.6 and V.8, which link beauty with the unified multiplicity of Intellect. This account is subsequently placed in a hierarchical and structural context in VI.2 and VI.6 and connected to illumination in VI.7, enabling us to determine the meaning of the predicate “beauty” at different ontological levels. For Plotinus, beauty is ultimately the illuminated unity in multiplicity of Intellect, which, as the manifestation of the Good, simultaneously enables the soul’s ascent and threatens to bind the soul to itself.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Philosophy
- Series statement
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- Studies in platonism, neoplatonism, and the platonic tradition ; volume 29
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Open access status
- gold
- Identifiers
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- SWISSCOVERY 991170875306905501
- ISBN 9789004510197
- DOI 10.1163/9789004510203
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/319642
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