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001 2009005786
003 DLC
005 20091229122438.0
008 090209s2009 inu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009005786
020 $a9781933316697 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aB693.Z7$bH37 2009
082 00 $a186/.4$222
245 04 $aThe heart of Plotinus :$bthe essential Eneads including Porphyry's On the cave of the nymphs /$cedited by Algis Uždavinys ; foreword by Jay Bregman.
260 $aBloomington, Ind. :$bWorld Wisdom, Inc.,$cc2009.
300 $axii, 279 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 0 $aThe library of perennial philosophy
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-270) and index.
505 0 $aThe philosophy of Plotinus the Egyptian / by Algis Uždavinys -- Plotinus and his master Ammonius -- Plotinus and his school in Rome -- Plotinus and the tradition of hellenic philosophy -- The metaphysics of Plotinus -- Mystical experience, self-knowledge, and union with the one -- Plotinus between east and west -- Remarks on Stephen MacKenna's translation -- Plotinus: the Enneads -- Enn. I.2: on the virtues -- Enn. I.3: on dialectic -- Enn. I.6: on beauty -- Enn. II.9: against the gnostics -- Enn. III.2: on providence (I) -- Enn. III.5: on love -- Enn. III.6: on the impassivity of the unembodied -- Enn. III.8: on nature, contemplation, and the one -- Enn. IV.3: problems of the soul (I) -- Enn. IV.4: problems of the soul (II) -- Enn. IV.8: the soul's descent into body -- Enn. V.8: on the intelligible beauty -- Enn. VI.5: on the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (II) -- Enn. VI.7: how the multiplicity of the ideal-forms came into being and on the good -- Enn. VI.8: on free will and the will of the one -- Enn. VI.9: on the good, or the one -- Porphyry's On the cave of the nymphs and the spiritual exegesis of homer by Algis Uždavinys -- Porphyry and his works -- Odysseus as a philosopher and spiritual hero -- Porphyry's allegorical interpretation of Homer -- Numenius and his pythagorean philosophy -- Cronius, the companion of numenius -- Remarks on Thomas Taylor's translation -- Porphyry: on the cave of the nymphs.
600 00 $aPlotinus.
600 00 $aPlotinus.$tEnneads.
600 00 $aPorphyry,$dca. 234-ca. 305.
600 00 $aPorphyry,$dca. 234-ca. 305.$tPeri tou en Odysseia tōn nymphōn antrou.
700 1 $aUždavinys, Algis.