Six Lectures on Plotinus and Gnosticism

Six Lectures on Plotinus and Gnosticism by Th.G. Sinnige.

In this book an attempt is made to single out those elements in the philosophical system of the Enneads that stand apart from the Platonist tradition. On the basis of an extensive analysis of fundamental texts the author shows that what Plotinus had in mind was a quite independent paradigm of metaph...

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Main Author: Sinnige, Th.G (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
Edition:1st ed. 1999.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Religion.
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Table of Contents:
  • I Emanation
  • II Mysticism
  • III The Soul’s Return to Her Origin in Alexandrian Literature
  • IV The Chronological Development of Plotinus’ Theory of Soul
  • V Conversion. The Late Treatises
  • VI The Human Person
  • Summary
  • Selected Bibliography.

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