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Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,605

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Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome (Hardcover): Miles

Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome (Hardcover)

Miles

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Plotinus, 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 Christianity, ensuring the interest of a long line of Christian thinkers. As Margaret Miles shows, Plotinus's philosophy holds both perennial attraction and offers specific contributions to particular issues at the beginning of the twenty first century.

Miles offers a fresh interpretation which situates Plotinus's philosophical ideas in the context of society and culture in which those ideas developed. Using extant evidence (the "Enneads," Porphyry's "Life"), she reconstructs an intense third-century conversation, n namely the relationship of body and soul. Mile's portrayal of Plotinus will encourage readers from a range of disciplines to question their construction of body, "self," and identity.

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Imprint:	Blackwell Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1999
First published:	November 1999
Authors:	Miles
Dimensions:	231 x 164 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
ISBN-13:	978-0-631-21274-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-631-21274-4
Barcode:	9780631212744