Plotinus' Cosmology 1st edition   Plotinus' Cosmology 0
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Cosmology: In Ennead II.1 (40) Plotinus is primarily concerned
to argue for the everlastingness of the universe, the heavens,
and the heavenly bodies as individual substances. Here he must
grapple both with the philosophical issue of personal identity
through time and with the rich tradition of cosmology which
pitted the Platonists against the Aristotelians and Stoics. What
results is a historically informed cosmological sketch
explaining the constitution of the heavens as well as sublunar
and celestial motion. This book contains an extensive
introduction aimed at providing the necessary background in
Platonic, Aristotelian, and Stoic cosmology, the text itself,
and a line-by-line commentary designed to elucidate its
philosophical, philological and historical details. Back to top