Name: Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision
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Author: Pierre Hadot
ISBN: 9780226311944

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Author

Pierre Hadot

Year

1998

Language

English

Pages

138

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.50

ISBN

0226311945

ISBN13

9780226311944

Edition No.

61519th

Synopsis "Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision "

Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's lucid translation—complete with a useful chronology and analytical bibliography—at last makes this book available to the English-speaking world. Hadot carefully examines Plotinus's views on the self, existence, love, virtue, gentleness, and solitude. He shows that Plotinus, like other philosophers of his day, believed that Plato and Aristotle had already articulated the essential truths; for him, the purpose of practicing philosophy was not to profess new truths but to engage in spiritual exercises so as to live philosophically. Seen in this light, Plotinus's counsel against fixation on the body and all earthly matters stemmed not from disgust or fear, but rather from his awareness of the negative effect that bodily preoccupation and material concern could have on spiritual exercises.

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Fernando Salazar Rodriguez Monday, February 20, 2023
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Un gran libro.
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Lino Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Una filosofía para hacer de la vida una obra de arte. Para hacer de nosotros un proyecto en el camino de su perfección. Para advertir la omnipresencia de la belleza en la naturaleza y en nosotros. Para tomar contacto con lo misterioso, lo susceptible, incluso en la vida diaria, de suscitar el éxtasis. Con la gracia que deriva de lo Uno y hace a las formas objeto del amor. El libro de Hadot abre las puertas a eso y a mucho más. Hay una edición española de Alpha Decay. ¿No sería bueno para el mundo de hoy un regreso al neoplatonismo?
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