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Plotinus on Intellect (Hardcover)
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Plotinus on Intellect (Hardcover)
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Plotinus (205-269 AD) is considered the founder of Neoplatonism,
the dominant philosophical movement of late antiquity, and a rich
seam of current scholarly interest. Whilst Plotinus' influence on
the subsequent philosophical tradition was enormous, his ideas can
also be seen as the culmination of some implicit trends in the
Greek tradition from Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
Emilsson's in-depth study focuses on Plotinus' notion of Intellect,
which comes second in his hierarchical model of reality, after the
One, unknowable first cause of everything. As opposed to ordinary
human discursive thinking, Intellect's thought is all-at-once,
timeless, truthful and a direct intuition into 'things themselves';
it is presumably not even propositional. Emilsson discusses and
explains this strong notion of non-discursive thought and explores
Plotinus' insistence that this must be the primary form of thought.
Plotinus' doctrine of Intellect raises a host of questions that
Emilsson addresses. First, Intellect's thought is described as an
attempt to grasp the One and at the same time as self-thought. How
are these two claims related? How are they compatible? What lies in
Plotinus' insistence that Intellect's thought is a thought of
itself? Second, Plotinus gives two minimum requirements of thought:
that it must involve a distinction between thinker and object of
thought, and that the object itself must be varied. How are these
two pluralist claims related? Third, what is the relation between
Intellect as a thinker and Intellect as an object of thought?
Plotinus' position here seems to amount to a form of idealism, and
this is explored.
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