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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.

About the Author :
Gary M. Gurtler, SJ is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, USA. He is co-editor of the Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy and president of the board of directors of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies. He is the author of Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (1988), as well as many notable articles on Plotinus, including “Plotinus: Matter and Otherness” (Epoché), “Plotinus: Self and Consciousness” (History of Platonism: Plato Redivivus), “Plotinus on the Soul’s Omnipresence in Body” (International Journal of the Platonic Tradition), and “Imitations of Beings Enter and Exit: Plotinus on Incorporeal Matter in Plato: III 6[26] 11–15” (Philosophy Study).

Review :
In this third and last part of ‘Problems Concerning the Soul’, Plotinus takes up three final problems or aporiai; insights from the first two parts are used to attack the popularly-credited influence of the planets on human enterprises, and the attendant problem of their memory and cooperation with evil"". - Heythrop Journal


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  • ISBN-13: 9781930972698
  • Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Parmenides Publishing
  • Height: 187 mm
  • No of Pages: 376
  • Series Title: The Enneads of Plotinus
  • Sub Title: Problems Concerning the Soul
  • Width: 124 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1930972695
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 458 gr


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