Form and Transformation: A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus: Volume 16

ISBN-13: 9780773510166 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 144 str.

Frederic M. Schroeder

Opis

Plotinus, the father of Neoplatonism, lived in Rome during the third century AD. For many scholars -- not only classicists and philosophers but medievalists, renaissance specialists, Islamists, theologians, and students of religion -- he remains a figure of commanding importance. Yet his work is seen as forbidding and inaccessible. The increase in Plotinian scholarship since the 1970s has included works that, although deeply rooted in scholarship, aim at a wider audience. Form and Transformation, while in that tradition, is the first book in English to provide an accessible introduction to Plotinus from an open, contemplative approach, examining in detail Plotinus' interpretation of the Platonic Theory of Forms.