Philosophic Silence and the 'One' in Plotinus

ISBN-13: 9781107154629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 308 str.

Nicholas Banner

Opis

Explores a central paradox in Plotinus' work: Plotinus writes about the One, which he tells us is ineffable.

Recenzje

'Banners book enriches the steadily growing Literature on Plotin's theology. It should turn out as the author hoped. Both for 'beginners' and for specialists as profitable reading prove.' Benedikt Kramer, Plekos

Spis treści

Part I. The Cultural Roots of Platonist Philosophic Silence: 1. De philosophorum Graecorum silentio mystico: preliminaries; 2. The silent philosopher; 3. Perennial wisdom and Platonist tradition; 4. Plotinus and 'the Ancients': tradition, truth and transcendence; Part II. The Transcendent Absolute, the Ineffable and Plotinian Poetics of Transcendence: 5. The development of the Transcendent Absolute in the Middle Platonist milieu; 6. The Transcendent Absolute and the ineffability of reality in Plotinus; 7. The poetics of transcendence in Plotinus.