Plotinus in dialogue with the Gnostics /
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| Author / Creator: | Narbonne, Jean-Marc, 1957- |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 152 p.). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 11 Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 11. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8969175 |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I.Plotinus and the Gnostics on the Generation of Matter (33 [II 9], 12 and 51 [I 8], 14)
- II.The Generation of Matter in Plotinus' System
- 1.Sources
- 2.The Exegetic Context
- 2.1.The Historical Dimension
- 2.2.The Doctrinal Dimension
- 3.The Double Originality of Plotinus
- I.The Term omicronμomicronomicronupsilonσιomicronδ
- II."And, if one ought to dare to express one's own view more clearly, contradicting the opinion of others"
- III.The Unification with the Divine: The Gnostic Variant and Its Plotinian Counterpart
- IV.Treatise 6 (IV 8): Plotinus' First Anti-Gnostic Manifesto?
- Sensible Matter, By-product of the Emanative Process
- The Proper Goal of Treatise 51
- I.Momicronνomicronupsilon πomicronδ μomicronνomicronν, or the Solitary Ascent of the Soul in 9 (VI 9)
- II.The Accompanied Ascent of the Soul in 38 (VI 7), 36
- III.The Plotinian Critique of the Soul's Ascent According to the Gnostics
- III.1.The Gnostic's Privileged Status in the Face of Other Men
- III.2.The Gnostic's Privileged Status in the Face of Other Divine Beings
- III.3.The Privileged Status of the Gnostic with Regard to the Intellect
- IV.The Ascent of the Soul in Association with the Intellect in 38 (VI 7), 36: A Radical or a Relative Novelty?
- An Invention of Contemplation?.