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Plotinus Ennead II.5: On What Is Potentially and What Actually by Cinzia Arruzza 9781930972636
Booksplease Price: £31.33The term dunamis (potentiality) entered into the philosophical vocabulary with Plato, but it was with Aristotle that it acquired, together with energeia (actuality), the strong technical meaning that... -
Plotinus Ennead V.8: On Intelligible Beauty: Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary by Andrew Smith 9781930972650
Booksplease Price: £29.44Plotinus' Ennead V.8, originally part of a single work (with III.8, V.5, and II.9), provides the foundation for a positive view of the universe as an image of divine beauty against the Gnostic... -
The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the Philosophy of Plotinus: An Analytical and Historical Study by Arthur Hilary Armstrong 9781107656734
Booksplease Price: £18.19Originally published in 1940, this book by famous Plotinus scholar Arthur Hilary Armstrong assesses how the philosopher's hierarchy of reality fits into the wider universal order, and how the... -
Plotinus on Beauty (Enneads 1.6 and 5.8.1-2): The Greek Text with Notes by Andrew Smith 9781628372489
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628372489Author Andrew SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Society of Biblical... -
Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 5: Ennead III, Part 2, and Ennead Iv by Marsilio Ficino
Booksplease Price: £32.25Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. Among his finest... -
Plotinus and Augustine on the Mid-Rank of Soul: Navigating Two Worlds by Joseph Torchia, OP 9781666928341
Booksplease Price: £86.43In this book, Joseph Torchia, OP, explores the mid-rank of the soul theme in Plotinus and Augustine with a special focus on its metaphysical, epistemological, and moral implications for each... -
Reading Neoplatonism: Non-discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius by Sara Rappe 9780521039420
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Neoplatonism is a term used to designate the form of Platonic philosophy that developed in the Roman Empire from the third to the fifth century AD and that based itself on the corpus of Plato's... -
Plotinus' Mystical Teaching of Henosis: An Interpretation in the Light of the Metaphysics of the One by Pao-Shen Ho 9783631656730
RRP: £40.05Booksplease Price: £36.50Plotinus' mysticism of henosis, unification with the One, is a highly controversial topic in Plotinian scholarship. This book presents a careful reading of the Enneads and suggests that Plotinus'... -
Plotinus on Individuation: A Study of Ennead V. 7 [18]. Text, Translation, and Commentary by Ina Schall 9789462704428
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £65.24New translation and first running commentary in English of Plotinus's V. 7 [18].No other Neoplatonic text has sparked as much debate as Ennead V. 7 [18] of Plotinus, 'On the question of whether there... -
Plotinus on Beauty (Enneads 1.6 and 5.8.1-2): The Greek Text with Notes by Andrew Smith 9780884143956
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884143956Author Andrew SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Society of Biblical... -
Plotinus Ennead II.9: Against the Gnostics: Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary by Sebastian Gertz 9781930972377
Booksplease Price: £38.79How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus' Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of... -
Reading Neoplatonism: Non-discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius by Sara Rappe 9780521651585
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Neoplatonism is a term used to designate the form of Platonic philosophy that developed in the Roman Empire from the third to the fifth century AD and that based itself on the corpus of Plato's... -
Plotinus Ennead V.1: On the Three Primary Levels of Reality by Eric D. Perl 9781930972919
Booksplease Price: £35.05Plotinus' Treatise V.1 comes closer than any other to providing an outline of his entire spiritual and metaphysical system, and as such it may serve to some degree as an introduction to his... -
Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome by Margaret R. Miles 9780631212744
Booksplease Price: £108.11Plotinus, the most profound philosopher of the third century C.E., has been influential on Byzantine and Western Christianity, and Islam. In the West, Augustine brought Plotinian philosophy into... -
Plotinus Ennead VI.8: On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary by Kevin Corrigan 9781930972391
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £29.81Ennead VI.8 gives us access to the living mind of a long dead sage as he tries to answer some of the most fundamental questions we in the modern world continue to ask: are we really free when most of... -
Form and Transformation: A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus: Volume 16 by Frederic M. Schroeder 9780773510166 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £5.73The Platonic Form is often presented as an instrument of explanation and as a cause in ontology, epistemology, and ethics. As such, it is usually approached from the perspective of its relations to... -
Plotinus Ennead VI.4 & VI.5: On the Presence of Being, One and the Same, Everywhere as a Whole by Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson 9781930972346
Booksplease Price: £31.33Ennead VI.4-5, originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus' most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intelligible and sensible realms, addressing and... -
Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus by John M. Cooper 9780691159706
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life--and not simply an intellectual discipline... -
Plotinus Ennead IV.4.30-45 & IV.5: Problems Concerning the Soul by Gary M. Gurtler 9781930972698
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £29.55Ennead IV.4.30-45 and IV.5 retrieves the unity in this last section of Plotinus' treatise on Problems concerning the Soul. Combining translation with commentary, Gurtler enhances both the accuracy of... -
Substance and Perseity in Mediaeval Arabic Philosophy; With Introductory Chapters on Aristotle, Plotinus and Proclus; Volume 2 by Emil L Fackenheim 9780343284022
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780343284022Author Emil L FackenheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Franklin ClassicsPublisher... -
Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy: Exploring Love in Plotinus, Proclus and Dionysius the Areopagite by Dimitrios A. Vasilakis 9781472985217
Booksplease Price: £33.84Showing the ontological importance of eros within the philosophical systems inspired by Plato, Dimitrios A. Vasilakis examines the notion of eros in key texts of the Neoplatonic philosophers,... -
Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy: Exploring Love in Plotinus, Proclus and Dionysius the Areopagite by Dimitrios A. Vasilakis 9781350163850
Booksplease Price: £103.11Showing the ontological importance of eros within the philosophical systems inspired by Plato, Dimitrios A. Vasilakis examines the notion of eros in key texts of the Neoplatonic philosophers,... -
Plotinus Ennead I.1: What is the Living Thing? What is Man? Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary by Gerard J.P. O'Daly 9781930972988
Booksplease Price: £34.12Ennead I.1 is a succinct and concentrated analysis of key themes in Plotinus' psychology and ethics. It focuses on the soul-body relation, discussing various Platonic, Aristotelian, and Stoic views... -
Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome Margaret R. Miles (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley) 9780631212751
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £43.92Miles brings Plotinus' thought alive for the twenty-first century by relating it to present day concerns.About the AuthorMargaret R. Miles is Dean and d Academic Vice-President of the Graduate... -
Aesthetic Themes in Pagan and Christian Neoplatonism by Daniele Iozzia 9781350007932
Booksplease Price: £40.79Whilst aesthetics as a discipline did not exist before the modern age, ancient philosophers give many insights about beauty and art. In Late Antiquity Plotinus confronted the problem of beauty and... -
A Concise History of Western Philosophy: From Platonism to Nihilism Mark Anderson 9781350555983
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.97Telling the compelling story of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche, Mark Anderson presents a series of through-provoking interpretations of its major figures. Anderson traces western thought... -
The Legacy of Neoplatonic Philosophy: From Ancient Aesthetics to 20th-Century Film Dr Gina Zavota 9781350379114
Booksplease Price: £86.73Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key concepts in Neoplatonic aesthetics? And what impact has... -
Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition by Stephen Gersh 9780268029692
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £12.64Eriugena, Berkeley and the Idealist Tradition is a collection of original essays presented at an international conference held in Dublin in 2002 and subsequently revised in light of discussions at... -
A Concise History of Western Philosophy: From Platonism to Nihilism Mark Anderson 9781350555990
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.27Telling the compelling story of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche, Mark Anderson presents a series of through-provoking interpretations of its major figures. Anderson traces western thought... -
Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem by Ann R. Meyer
Booksplease Price: £96.11The concept of the New Jerusalem, the City of God, as realised in architecture and literature, especially Pearl. This book investigates the concept of the New Jerusalem, the City of God, as an... -
Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankelevitch: On What Cannot Be Touched by Marguerite La Caze 9781498593502
Booksplease Price: £91.39Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankelevitch: On What Cannot Be Touched performs a cross-disciplinary theoretical analysis of the philosophy of Vladimir Jankelevitch. An international group of... -
Introductory Readings in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy by Patrick Lee Miller 9781624663529
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £50.08This concise anthology of primary sources designed for use in an ancient philosophy survey ranges from the Presocratics to Plato, Aristotle, the Hellenistic philosophers, and the Neoplatonists. The... -
Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition by Stephen Gersh 9780268206109
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52Eriugena, Berkeley and the Idealist Tradition is a collection of original essays presented at an international conference held in Dublin in 2002 and subsequently revised in light of discussions at... -
Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition D. C. Schindler 9780268203719
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74Retrieving Freedom is a provocative, big-picture book, taking a long view of the "rise and fall" of the classical understanding of freedom. In response to the evident shortcomings of the notion of... -
A Companion to Ancient Philosophy by Sean D Kirkland 9780810137868
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic... -
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 by Charles Freeman 9781803281957
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.14The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the... -
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 Charles Freeman 9781803281964
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A compelling account of the continuing legacy of Greek writers and thinkers in the age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when... -
Human Destinies: Philosophical Essays in Memory of Gerald Hanratty by Fran O'Rourke 9780268037345
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £52.41From 1968 until his death in 2003, Gerald Hanratty was professor of philosophy at University College Dublin. In this volume dedicated to his memory, Fran O'Rourke has assembled twenty-six essays... -
The Birth of Theory by Andrew Cole
Booksplease Price: £26.68Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory - Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole's The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and... -
Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition by D. C. Schindler
Booksplease Price: £68.43Retrieving Freedom is a provocative, big-picture book, taking a long view of the "rise and fall" of the classical understanding of freedom. In response to the evident shortcomings of the notion of...