Plotinus on Beauty: Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004510197)

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

In this book, Ota G疝 presents a new analysis of Plotinus' conception of beauty, beginning from a close reading of treatises I.6 and V.8, which link beauty with the unified multiplicity of Intellect. This account is subsequently placed in a hierarchical and structural context in VI.2 and VI.6 and connected to illumination in VI.7, enabling us to determine the meaning of the predicate "beauty" at different ontological levels. For Plotinus, beauty is ultimately the illuminated unity in multiplicity of Intellect, which, as the manifestation of the Good, simultaneously enables the soul's ascent and threatens to bind the soul to itself.

Author: Ota G疝
ISBN-10: 9004510192
ISBN-13: 9789004510197
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 03/24/2022
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d