Plotinus (Great Books of the Western World, Vol 17)
by:
Plotinus (author)
Stephen MacKenna (author)
B.S. Page (author)
Format: hardcover
Publish date: 1952
Publisher: Encylopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
A heavy reliance on Plato’s Timaeus and Parmenides results in Plotinus being classified as one of the first Neoplatonists by the many or an advocate of orthodox Platonism by the few. Either way, Plato had an impact.Plotinus’ reliance on the more mystical, and perhaps the most ambiguous (Parmenides)...