Author

Publication

2018-01-31 - Parmenides Publishing

Language

English

Word Count

43,250 words, Guess

Page Count

173 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101930972652
  • ISBN-139781930972650
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017036265
  • OCLC Control Number1007494504
  • Better World Books9781930972650
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCB693.E52E5 2017d
  • LCCB693.E52 E5 2017

Description

Plotinus’ Ennead V.8, originally part of a single work (with III.8, V.5, and II.9), provides the foundation for a positive view of the universe as an image of divine beauty against the Gnostic rejection of the world. Although it emphasizes the cosmic dimension of beauty, it is, as are most treatises of Plotinus, concerned with the individual soul. The notion that the artist has within him an idea of beauty that derives directly from the intelligible world in fact coincides with his theory that each one of us has access to Intellect through his or her own intellect. It is the exploitation of this theme that forms the central dynamic of the treatise, with its stress on our ability to "see" and be one with the intelligible world and its beauty.

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