1st Edition
The Renaissance of Plotinus The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on the Enneads
By Anna Corrias
Copyright 2021
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Plotinus (204/5–270 C.E.) is a central figure in the history of Western philosophy. However, during the Middle Ages he was almost unknown. None of the treatises constituting his Enneads were translated, and ancient translations were lost. Although scholars had indirect access to his philosophy through the works of Proclus, St. Augustine, and Macrobius, among others, it was not until 1492 with... Read more
Introduction
1. The Birth of the Latin Plotinus
2. Rescuing Aristotle’s Soul I: Plotinus and Alexander of Aphrodisias
3. Rescuing Aristotle’s Soul II: Plotinus and the Averroistic Intellect
4. The Imagination at Work: Perceiving, Remembering and Giving Birth
5. Daemons and Stars
Biography
Anna Corrias is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the University of Toronto, Canada, where she works on the reception of late ancient philosophy in the early modern period, with a special focus on the Platonic tradition.
