Paul Kalligas
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691154213
- eISBN:
- 9781400852512
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691154213.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep ...
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This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the first three of the six Enneads, as well as Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus, a document in which Plotinus’s student—the collector and arranger of the Enneads—introduces the philosopher and his work. A landmark contribution to modern Plotinus scholarship, this commentary is the most detailed and extensive ever written for the whole of the Enneads. For each of the treatises in the first three Enneads, the volume provides a brief introduction that presents the philosophical background against which Plotinus’s contribution can be assessed; a synopsis giving the main lines and the articulation of the argument; and a running commentary placing Plotinus’s thought in its intellectual context and making evident the systematic association of its various parts with each other.Less
This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the first three of the six Enneads, as well as Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus, a document in which Plotinus’s student—the collector and arranger of the Enneads—introduces the philosopher and his work. A landmark contribution to modern Plotinus scholarship, this commentary is the most detailed and extensive ever written for the whole of the Enneads. For each of the treatises in the first three Enneads, the volume provides a brief introduction that presents the philosophical background against which Plotinus’s contribution can be assessed; a synopsis giving the main lines and the articulation of the argument; and a running commentary placing Plotinus’s thought in its intellectual context and making evident the systematic association of its various parts with each other.
Dominic J. O'Meara
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780198239130
- eISBN:
- 9780191600937
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198239130.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
The conclusion summarizes the main points established in the book concerning Iamblichus’ contribution to the development of Neoplatonism and to the emergence of a philosophy of mathematics and a ...
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The conclusion summarizes the main points established in the book concerning Iamblichus’ contribution to the development of Neoplatonism and to the emergence of a philosophy of mathematics and a mathematizing physics and metaphysics that are found in Proclus and that would be of considerable historical importance, as indicated briefly, in Medieval and Renaissance philosophy.Less
The conclusion summarizes the main points established in the book concerning Iamblichus’ contribution to the development of Neoplatonism and to the emergence of a philosophy of mathematics and a mathematizing physics and metaphysics that are found in Proclus and that would be of considerable historical importance, as indicated briefly, in Medieval and Renaissance philosophy.
Warren Boutcher
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198739661
- eISBN:
- 9780191831126
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739661.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
The paratexts to Florio's Montaigne claim that Montaigne's worth was recognized everywhere. But what was the fate of the Essais in cities from Geneva in Switzerland to Ferrara, Padua, and Venice in ...
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The paratexts to Florio's Montaigne claim that Montaigne's worth was recognized everywhere. But what was the fate of the Essais in cities from Geneva in Switzerland to Ferrara, Padua, and Venice in northeastern Italy? In Geneva, the Essais were first published in a heavily censored edition, before appearing unexpurgated with false title pages. Lyon [Geneva] 1595 combines with other evidence to show how one of the most significant early reader-writers of the Essais (Simon Goulart) corrected and used the work. There are some parallels with Ferrara 1590, which we can see as part of the oeuvre both of its translator, Naselli, and of the Ferrarese court. In the late 1620s, early 1630s, clerics in the Veneto including Paolo Sarpi called upon the Essais to assist in the construction of virtù civile and models of the philosophico-religious life for the noble elite. They understood them to be a contribution to Renaissance moral philosophy and 'civil conversation'.Less
The paratexts to Florio's Montaigne claim that Montaigne's worth was recognized everywhere. But what was the fate of the Essais in cities from Geneva in Switzerland to Ferrara, Padua, and Venice in northeastern Italy? In Geneva, the Essais were first published in a heavily censored edition, before appearing unexpurgated with false title pages. Lyon [Geneva] 1595 combines with other evidence to show how one of the most significant early reader-writers of the Essais (Simon Goulart) corrected and used the work. There are some parallels with Ferrara 1590, which we can see as part of the oeuvre both of its translator, Naselli, and of the Ferrarese court. In the late 1620s, early 1630s, clerics in the Veneto including Paolo Sarpi called upon the Essais to assist in the construction of virtù civile and models of the philosophico-religious life for the noble elite. They understood them to be a contribution to Renaissance moral philosophy and 'civil conversation'.
