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Plotinus and Epicurus - Matter, Perception, Pleasure (Hardcover)
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Plotinus and Epicurus - Matter, Perception, Pleasure (Hardcover)
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This volume investigates the reasons why Plotinus, a philosopher
inspired by Plato, made critical use of Epicurean philosophy.
Eminent scholars show that some fundamental Epicurean conceptions
pertaining to ethics, physics, epistemology and theology are drawn
upon in the Enneads to discuss crucial notions such as pleasure and
happiness, providence and fate, matter and the role of sense
perception, intuition and intellectual evidence in relation to the
process of knowledge acquisition. By focusing on the meaning of
these terms in Epicureanism, Plotinus deploys sophisticated methods
of comparative analysis and argumentative procedures that
ultimately lead him to approach certain aspects of Epicurus'
philosophy as a benchmark for his own theories and to accept,
reject or discredit the positions of authors of his own day. At the
same time, these discussions reveal what aspects of Epicurean
philosophy were still perceived to be of vital relevance in the
third century AD.
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