
The Notion of That Which Depends on Us in Plotinus and Its Background
Erik Eliasson(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 25. June 2008
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-90-04-16614-1 (ISBN)
Description
The book analyses Plotinus' notion of 'that which depends on us', which although central to his ethics, has never been examined in a specific study before. The book traces the sources of this notion in Aristotle and its reception in Stoicism, Middle Platonism and Early Aristotelian Commentators. It then shows how Plotinus' critical discussion of the inherent problems in previous accounts and his investigation of the notion's application to the Intellect and the One, leads to a highly original interpretation of the notion as central to his account of human agency. The book demonstrates Plotinus' serious engagement with the central issues of ancient ethics, and his original way of tackling them.
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English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-16614-1 (9789004166141)
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Erik Eliasson, Ph.D. (2005) in Philosophy, University of Uppsala, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies, London. He has published on Plotinus, on the philosophy of action in Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition.