Plotino - About Intelligent Beauty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798506497073)

Plotinus is generally considered to be the founder of so-called neoplatonism. He is one of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, after Plato and Aristotle. At the age of 28, a growing interest in philosophy led him to Alexandria, where he became a disciple of Ammon Sacas for 11 years. After that, Plotinus dedicated himself to the study of Persian and Indian philosophy. He remained in Alexandria until the year 243, when he left the city to follow the Emperor Jordan on an expedition to the East. When he died in the middle of the expedition, Plotinus decided to go to Rome, where he arrived in 244, founding a school based on the teachings and examples of his master and royal modeler of the Neoplatonic movement, Ammonio Sacas.Like Socrates, Ammonium left nothing written, but his doctrine was spread and perfected by Plotinus, just as before Socrates' message had been eternalized by the testimonies of Plato and Xenophon. Ammonium reconciled the ideas of Plato and Aristotle and transmitted to his disciples, especially to Plotinus, a philosophy free from the spirit of polemic, sometimes the result of mere vanity for intellectual dispute.After founding his school, Plotinus spent 10 years just giving lessons, without writing anything, out of respect for a pact he had made with Erenio and Origen, the Pagan, not to spread the doctrine of Ammonium. But soon his colleagues broke the treaty and Plotinus began to write treaties. His writings were later ordained by his disciple Porphyry, who divided them into six groups of nine treatises, from which came the title "Aeneas," for in Greek, nine is written "ennea.These writings are among the most important that have come to us since antiquity, together with the platonic dialogues and the esoteric writings of Aristotle. In them, it is possible to perceive the spiritual depth of Plotinus' thought, loaded with poetic images and explanations of phenomena such as the soul leaving the body (projection), the analysis of the one (holos), the existence of a physical world and another spiritual world, among other subjects. Plotinus' last words, addressed to the physician Eustóquio, were: "Always seek to conjugate the divine that is in you with the divine that is in the universe".

Author: Douglas Stones
ISBN-13: 9798506497073
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/18/2021
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.12lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d