Plotinus: Volume I, Porphyry on Plotinus, Ennead I (Loeb Classical Library No. 440) - Hardcover

Plotinus; Paul Henry; A. H. Armstrong; Porphyry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674994841 ISBN 13: 9780674994843

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1969

Synopsis

Plotinus (204/5–270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).

Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and the Stoics, whose writings he knew well but used critically. He is a unique combination of mystic and Hellenic rationalist. His thought dominated later Greek philosophy and influenced both Christians and Moslems, and is still alive today because of its union of rationality and intense religious experience.

In his acclaimed edition of Plotinus, Armstrong provides excellent introductions to each treatise. His invaluable notes explain obscure passages and give reference to parallels in Plotinus and others.

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur Hilary Armstrong (1909–1997) was the Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool.

Review:

“Loeb features the best Greek text accompanied by a highly readable and clear English version.”―Classical World

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0674994841
• ISBN 13: 9780674994843
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368