Plotinus and Epicurus: Matter, Perception, Pleasure

ISBN-13: 9781107124219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 254 str.

Angela Longo; Daniela P. Taormina

Opis

Proposes a new way of understanding themes such as matter, knowledge, human happiness and the gods in Epicurus and Plotinus.

Recenzje

'The volume has a clear and comprehensive stage-setting introduction by the editors and a full biography. There is hardly a sentence in the Enneads that is not rooted in the history of philosophy as Plotinus knew it. This book s a valuable addition to the scholarship seeking to illuminate this background.' Lloyd P. Gerson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Preface Daniela Patrizia Taormina; Introduction Angela Longo and Daniela Patrizia Taormina; Part I. Historical Overview: 1. The school and texts of Epicurus in the early centuries of the Roman empire Tiziano Dorandi; Part II. Common Anti-Epicurean Arguments in Plotinus: 2. The mention of Epicurus in Plotinus' tr. 33 (Enn. II 9) in the context of the polemics between Pagans and Christians in the second-third century AD: parallels between Celsus, Plotinus and Origen Angela Longo; 3. Epicureans and Gnostics in tr. 47 (Enn. III 2) 7.29-41 Manuel Mazzetti; 4. 'Heavy birds' in tr. 5 (Enn. V 9) 1.8: References to Epicureanism and the problem of pleasure in Plotinus Mauricio Pagotto Marsola; 5. Plotinus, Epicurus and the problem of intellectual evidence: tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1 Pierre-Marie Morel; 6. 'What is known through sense perception is an image'. Plotinus' tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1.12-19: an anti-Epicurean argument? Daniela Patrizia Taormina; Part III. Plotinus' Criticism of Epicurean Doctrines: 7. Corporeal matter, indefiniteness and multiplicity: Plotinus' critique of Epicurean atomism in tr. 12 (Enn. II 4) 7.20-8 Marco Ninci; 8. Plotinus' reception of Epicurean atomism in On Fate, tr. 3 (Enn. III 1) 1-3 Erik Eliasson; Part IV. Epicureans Elements in Plotinus: Some Instances: 9. Athroa epibolē: on an Epicurean formula in Plotinus' work Andrei Cornea; 10. Plotinus and Epicurus on pleasure and happiness Alessandro Linguiti.