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Plotinus Ennead IV.4.30-45 & IV.5

Name: Plotinus Ennead IV.4.30-45 & IV.5
Brand: Parmenides Publishing
SKU: 03209396
Price: 19276 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Gary M. Gurtler
ISBN: 9781930972698

Problems Concerning the Soul

Gary M. Gurtler

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 03209396

Publishers Parmenides Publishing, April 2015

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Ennead 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 the translation and the recovery of Plotinus' often unsuspected originality. This is especially true for IV.5, where previous translations fail to convey the concise nature of his argument against both the Aristotelian and Platonic theories of vision.

Plato and Aristotle each claim that vision depends on the light between the eye and the object, but Plotinus presents evidence that this is not the case and develops a novel theory of light as a second activity that moves from source to object directly, even arguing that color is in the light itself rather than merely a quality of the object. This theory of vision, in turn, depends on the nature of sympathy developed especially in IV.4.30-45, where Plotinus shows how action at a distance is both possible and necessary for the proper unity in diversity of the sensible cosmos.