Plotinus on intellect /

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Author / Creator:Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson.
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:viii, 232 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6277484
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ISBN:019928170X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780199281701 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-219) and indexes.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Emanation and Activity
  • 1. Internal and External Activity
  • 2. One or Two Acts?
  • 3. Motion and Activity in VI.1 and VI.3
  • 4. Absolute Motions
  • 5. The Case of Walking and its Trace
  • 6. Emanation and Internal and External Acts Again
  • 7. The Sources of the Double Act Doctrine I: Aristotle
  • 8. The Sources of the Double Act Doctrine II: Plato
  • 2. The Genesis of Intellect
  • 1. The Inchoate Intellect and its Conversion
  • 2. Kinds of Plurality or Otherness
  • 3. Analysis of V.3.10
  • 4. The Intellect's Undifferentiated Impression of the One
  • 5. Pre-noetic Experience and Mystical Union with the One
  • 6. The Two Kinds of Otherness Again
  • 7. Self-Thinking and the First Person
  • 3. Intellect and Being
  • 1. Cognition, Images, and the Real
  • 2. The Nature of Sense-Perception
  • 3. Evidence for Subjectivism or Idealism
  • 4. The Identity of Subject and Object in Intellect
  • 5. The Puzzles of Ennead V.3.5: Self-Thinking Revisited
  • 6. Being and Thought
  • 7. The Difference and Identity between Subject and Object
  • 8. Subordinate Intelligibles and Subordinate Intellects
  • 9. Truth in Intellect
  • 10. The Notion of the Given
  • 11. Plotinus' Idealism
  • 4. Discursive and Non-discursive Thought
  • 1. Non-discursive vs. Discursive Thought: the Main Contrasts
  • 2. Is Non-discursive Thought Propositional?
  • 3. Non-discursive Thought and Perceptual Imagery
  • 4. The Holism of Intellect
  • 5. Discursive Thought's Dependence on Intellect
  • References
  • Index of cited texts
  • General index