Lloyd P. Gerson
Plotinus Ennead V.5
- ISBN 13:
- 9781930972858
- author:
- Lloyd P. Gerson
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Parmenides Publishing
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Pages:
- 225
- Dimensions:
- 19.05 x 12.7 x 1.78 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Philosophy, History & Surveys,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
The Ennead V.5: That the Intelligibles are Not External to the Intellect, and on the Good by Plotinus and Lloyd P. Gerson. This treatise explores the relationship between Plato's Demiurge and the Living Animal, which serves as the model for creation. The central question is whether the contents of the Living Animal, known as the Forms, are internal to the mind of the Demiurge or external and independent. Plotinus argues that the solution depends on how the Intellect, which is both the Demiurge and the Forms, is understood in relation to the first principle of all, the One or the Good. The treatise sets out a case for the internality of Forms and presents a necessary existence of an absolutely simple and transcendent first principle, the One or the Good. This principle underlies not only Intellect and the Forms but also everything else that exists.
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