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Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like 'the One' in a cinematic context and relates Plotinus' theory of time as a transitory intelligible movement of the soul to Bergson’s and Deleuze’s time-image. Film is a unique medium for a rapprochement of our modern consciousness with the thought of Plotinus. The Neoplatonic vestige is particularly worth exploring in the context of the newly emerging “Cinema of Contemplation.” Plotinus' search for the 'intelligible' that can be grasped neither by sense perception nor by merely logical abstractions leads to a fluent way of seeing. Parallels that had so far never been discussed are made plausible. This book is a milestone in the philosophy of film. Contributors are: Cameron Barrows, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Michelle Phillips Buchberger, Steve Choe, Stephen Clark, Vincenzo Lomuscio, Tony Partridge, Daniel Regnier, Giannis Stamatellos, Enrico Terrone, Sebastian F. Moro Tornese and Panayiota Vassilopoulou.

Motion pictures --- Philosophy. --- Plotinus. --- Plotin --- Plotinos --- Boluoding --- Iflūṭīn --- Plotino --- Plōtinos --- Plotinus, --- Plotyn --- Πλωτι̂νος --- פלוטינוס --- أفلوطين

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The Platonic Form is often presented as an instrument of explanation and as a cause in ontology, epistemology, and ethics. As such, it is usually approached from the perspective of its relations to the particulars of the sensible world. Frederic Schroeder contends that Plotinus argues for the sovereignty of the Platonic Form both as a ground of being and as an intrinsically valuable object of intellective and spiritual vision. These two aspects coalesce in the thought of Plotinus, for whom the Form is, apart from its philosophical uses, an object of enjoyment. Schroeder argues also that the particular must be seen as having an intrinsic character, distinct from its relationship to the Form or to other particulars. The particular thus becomes a window on the world of Form. In the course of his exploration of the sovereignty of Form, Schroeder examines the themes of illumination, silence, language, and love. He undertakes an immanent interpretation of the Plotinian text, showing how Plotinian vocabulary displays intricate internal connections and genetic relationships. Schroeder shows that Plotinus' thought is not susceptible to organization into a closed, linear synthesis but has its own order, centred on the conviction that Form is of intrinsic value and that it is only from the perspective of this intrinsic value that we can understand its uses and significance in explanation and causation. Rather than trying to construct such a synthesis, Schroeder, starting from this basic insight into Plotinus' understanding of the Platonic Form, leads the reader to a greater understanding of Plotinus' manner of philosophizing.

Form (Philosophy) --- Idealism --- Matter --- Metaphysics --- Structuralism --- Plotinus --- Plotin --- Plotinos --- Contributions in metaphysics. --- Boluoding --- Iflūṭīn --- Plotino --- Plōtinos --- Plotinus, --- Plotyn --- Πλωτι̂νος --- פלוטינוס --- أفلوطين

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The nature of intelligible Forms received different interpretations from various ancient Platonists. This book sketches the history of these interpretations from Antiochus to Plotinus and shows the radical transformation this theory underwent in the hands of the latter. Pre-Plotinian Platonists considered the Forms as "thoughts of god" and made the causal role of the Forms depend on the craftsman-god. Plotinus rejected this "artificialist" model. Instead he considered the Forms as living and intellective realities and thereby turned the paradigmatic causality of the intelligible on its head. The Forms are themselves active and the demiurge is no longer needed as a causal agent separate from the Forms. Plotinus incorporated key concepts of Aristotelian theology and included them in a doctrine of the causality of the Forms, thus overcoming Aristotle's objections against Platonic Forms.

Neoplatonism. --- Alexandrian school --- Church history --- Hellenism --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Platonists --- Theosophy --- Plotinus. --- Plotin --- Plotinos --- Plotinus --- Criticism, Textual. --- Boluoding --- Iflūṭīn --- Plotino --- Plōtinos --- Plotinus, --- Plotyn --- Πλωτι̂νος --- פלוטינוס --- أفلوطين

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This volume investigates the reasons why Plotinus, a philosopher inspired by Plato, made critical use of Epicurean philosophy. Eminent scholars show that some fundamental Epicurean conceptions pertaining to ethics, physics, epistemology and theology are drawn upon in the Enneads to discuss crucial notions such as pleasure and happiness, providence and fate, matter and the role of sense perception, intuition and intellectual evidence in relation to the process of knowledge acquisition. By focusing on the meaning of these terms in Epicureanism, Plotinus deploys sophisticated methods of comparative analysis and argumentative procedures that ultimately lead him to approach certain aspects of Epicurus' philosophy as a benchmark for his own theories and to accept, reject or discredit the positions of authors of his own day. At the same time, these discussions reveal what aspects of Epicurean philosophy were still perceived to be of vital relevance in the third century AD.

Plotinus. --- Epicurus --- Influence. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Epicurus. --- Matter --- Perception (Philosophy). --- Matière --- Perception (Philosophie) --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Plotinus --- Matière --- Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Epikouros --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Έπίκουρος --- Plotin --- Plotinos --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Boluoding --- Iflūṭīn --- Plotino --- Plōtinos --- Plotinus, --- Plotyn --- Πλωτι̂νος --- פלוטינוס --- أفلوطين

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Filling the void in the current scholarship, Giannis Stamatellos provides the first book-length study of the Presocratic influences in Plotinus' Enneads. Widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus (204–270 AD) assimilated eight centuries of Greek thought into his work. In this book Stamatellos focuses on eminent Presocratic thinkers who are significant in Plotinus' thought, including Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the early Pythagoreans, and the early Atomists. The Presocratic references found in the Enneads are studied in connection with Plotinus' fundamental theories of the One and the unity of being, intellect and the structure of the intelligible world, the nature of eternity and time, the formation of the material world, and the nature of the ensouled body. Stamatellos concludes that, contrary to modern scholarship's dismissal of Presocratic influence in the Enneads, Presocratic philosophy is in fact an important source for Plotinus, which he recognized as valuable in its own right and adapted for key topics in his thought.

One (The One in philosophy) --- Intellect. --- Soul. --- Pre-Socratic philosophers. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- The One (Philosophy) --- Ontology --- Philosophy --- Absolute, The --- Human intelligence --- Intelligence --- Mind --- Ability --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Pneuma --- Future life --- Philosophical anthropology --- Theological anthropology --- Animism --- Spirit --- Pre-Socratics --- Presocratic philosophers --- Presocratics --- Philosophers --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Plotinus. --- Plotin --- Plotinos --- Intellect --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Pre-Socratic philosophers --- Soul --- Boluoding --- Iflūṭīn --- Plotino --- Plōtinos --- Plotinus, --- Plotyn --- Πλωτι̂νος --- פלוטינוס --- أفلوطين