Plotinus on Beauty: Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, cartea 29
Autor Ota Gálen Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 mar 2022
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004510197
ISBN-10: 9004510192
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition
ISBN-10: 9004510192
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition
Notă biografică
Ota Gál, Ph.D. (1984), is a philosopher and physiotherapist working in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Neurology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University (Prague). He has published articles on Plato and Plotinus, as well as several medical papers and books.
Recenzii
"...this is a very good book, well worth the time not only of one interested in Plotinus and in the topic of beauty, but also in the view held universally by all Platonists that beauty is not separable from morality or from metaphysics." - Lloyd P. Gerson, BMCR 2023.01.35
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1Beauty in Plotinus: Where and How to Start?
1.2Treatise V.8: Plotinus the Defender, or the Top-Down Perspective
1.3Treatise I.6: An Introduction to Plotinus, or the Bottom-Up Perspective
1.4On the Kinds of Being: Plotinus the Exegete
1.5On Number: Plotinus the Explorer
1.6Treatise VI.7: The Many Faces of Plotinus and Beauty
2 Beauty as a Stepping-Stone (Treatise I.6)
2.1The Phenomenal Field of Beauty
2.2The Context of the Question: The Symposium and Beauty as Symmetry
2.3The Cause of Beauty and Ugliness in Bodies
2.4The Impact of Beauty on Soul
2.5The Cause of Beauty and Ugliness in Soul
2.6The Hierarchy of Beauty and What Is at the Top
3 Intelligible Beauty (Treatise V.8)
3.1Productive Contemplation
3.2The Defence of τέχνη and Sensible Beauty
3.3The Beauty of Soul: The Cosmic Dimension
3.4The Correct Understanding of Intellect and Its Beauty
3.5The Οὐρανός—Κρόνος—Ζεύς Myth: Consequences for Beauty and the Good
4 Unity, Multiplicity and the Highest Kinds (Treatise VI.2)
4.1The Focus of VI.1–3 and the Quest for the Highest Kinds (VI.2.1–3)
4.2Establishing the Five Highest Kinds (VI.2.4–8)
4.3Is the One To Be Counted among the Highest Kinds? (VI.2.9–11)
4.4Tentative Summary: The Unity and Multiplicity of Intellect in VI.2
4.5Is Beauty To Be Counted among the Highest Kinds? (VI.2.17–18)
5 Unity, Multiplicity and the Numbers (Treatise VI.6)
5.1The Context of the Quest for the Notion of Number (V.5.4–5 and VI.6.1)
5.2Defined Multiplicity, Form of Beauty and the Indefinite Dyad (VI.6.1–3)
5.3Number in the Intelligible (VI.6.4–8)
5.4The Role of Number in the Generation of Beings (VI.6.9–10)
5.5Number and Beauty (VI.6.18)
6 Beauty as the Manifestation of the Good (Treatise VI.7)
6.1The Ascent to Intellect as Life (VI.7.1–12)
6.2The Context of the Question of the Presence of the Good in Intellect (VI.7.13–14)
6.3The Presence of the Good in Intellect: The Top-Down Answer (VI.7.15–17)
6.4The Presence of the Good in Intellect: The Bottom-Up Answer (VI.7.18–23)
6.5Alternative Notions of the Good and the True Meaning of Plato’s Doctrine (VI.7.24–30)
6.6The Good from the Perspective of Beauty and Love (VI.7.31–36)
6.7The Good and Intellection (VI.7.37–42)
7 Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity
7.1Beauty on the Level of Sensibles
7.2Beauty on the Level of Soul
7.3Beauty on the Level of Intellect
7.4Beauty and the Good
7.5Beauty as Such
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1Beauty in Plotinus: Where and How to Start?
1.2Treatise V.8: Plotinus the Defender, or the Top-Down Perspective
1.3Treatise I.6: An Introduction to Plotinus, or the Bottom-Up Perspective
1.4On the Kinds of Being: Plotinus the Exegete
1.5On Number: Plotinus the Explorer
1.6Treatise VI.7: The Many Faces of Plotinus and Beauty
2 Beauty as a Stepping-Stone (Treatise I.6)
2.1The Phenomenal Field of Beauty
2.2The Context of the Question: The Symposium and Beauty as Symmetry
2.3The Cause of Beauty and Ugliness in Bodies
2.4The Impact of Beauty on Soul
2.5The Cause of Beauty and Ugliness in Soul
2.6The Hierarchy of Beauty and What Is at the Top
3 Intelligible Beauty (Treatise V.8)
3.1Productive Contemplation
3.2The Defence of τέχνη and Sensible Beauty
3.3The Beauty of Soul: The Cosmic Dimension
3.4The Correct Understanding of Intellect and Its Beauty
3.5The Οὐρανός—Κρόνος—Ζεύς Myth: Consequences for Beauty and the Good
4 Unity, Multiplicity and the Highest Kinds (Treatise VI.2)
4.1The Focus of VI.1–3 and the Quest for the Highest Kinds (VI.2.1–3)
4.2Establishing the Five Highest Kinds (VI.2.4–8)
4.3Is the One To Be Counted among the Highest Kinds? (VI.2.9–11)
4.4Tentative Summary: The Unity and Multiplicity of Intellect in VI.2
4.5Is Beauty To Be Counted among the Highest Kinds? (VI.2.17–18)
5 Unity, Multiplicity and the Numbers (Treatise VI.6)
5.1The Context of the Quest for the Notion of Number (V.5.4–5 and VI.6.1)
5.2Defined Multiplicity, Form of Beauty and the Indefinite Dyad (VI.6.1–3)
5.3Number in the Intelligible (VI.6.4–8)
5.4The Role of Number in the Generation of Beings (VI.6.9–10)
5.5Number and Beauty (VI.6.18)
6 Beauty as the Manifestation of the Good (Treatise VI.7)
6.1The Ascent to Intellect as Life (VI.7.1–12)
6.2The Context of the Question of the Presence of the Good in Intellect (VI.7.13–14)
6.3The Presence of the Good in Intellect: The Top-Down Answer (VI.7.15–17)
6.4The Presence of the Good in Intellect: The Bottom-Up Answer (VI.7.18–23)
6.5Alternative Notions of the Good and the True Meaning of Plato’s Doctrine (VI.7.24–30)
6.6The Good from the Perspective of Beauty and Love (VI.7.31–36)
6.7The Good and Intellection (VI.7.37–42)
7 Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity
7.1Beauty on the Level of Sensibles
7.2Beauty on the Level of Soul
7.3Beauty on the Level of Intellect
7.4Beauty and the Good
7.5Beauty as Such
Bibliography
Index