{"product_id":"plotinus-andrew-smith-9781930972933","title":"Plotinus: Ennead I.6: On Beauty: Translation, with an Introduction and Commentary","description":"\"Ennead I.6 is probably the best known and most influential treatise of Plotinus, especially for Renaissance artists and thinkers. Although the title may suggest a work on aesthetics and thus of limited focus, this is far from the case. For it quickly becomes apparent that Plotinus' main interest is in transcendent beauty, which he identifies with the Good, the goal of all philosophical endeavor in the Platonist's search to assimilate himself with the divine. \u003cbr\u003e The treatise is at once a philosophical search for the nature of the divine and at the same time an encouragement to the individual to aspire to this goal by taking his start from the beauty which is experienced in this world; for it is an image of transcendent beauty. This upward movement of the treatise reflects throughout the speech of Socrates in Plato's \u003ci\u003eSymposium \u003c\/i\u003ein which he recounts the exhortation of the priestess Diotima to ascend from earthly to transcendent beauty, which for Plotinus is identified with the divine.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1930972938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781930972933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Parmenides Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Andrew Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074991681791,"sku":"9781930972933","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e8340cde-ebea-49e0-bc32-e17dee641fc6.jpg?v=1685456971","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/plotinus-andrew-smith-9781930972933","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}