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Gál, Ota,

Plotinus on Beauty : Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity / Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity Ota Gál. - 1 online resource. - Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; 29 Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022 . - Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; 29. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Copyright Page / Acknowledgements / Abbreviations / Chapter 1 Introduction / Chapter 2 Beauty as a Stepping-Stone (Treatise  I .6) / Chapter 3 Intelligible Beauty (Treatise  V .8) / Chapter 4 Unity, Multiplicity and the Highest Kinds (Treatise  VI .2) / Chapter 5 Unity, Multiplicity and the Numbers (Treatise  VI .6) / Chapter 6 Beauty as the Manifestation of the Good (Treatise  VI .7) / Chapter 7 Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity / Bibliography / Index / Ota Gál -- Ota Gál -- Ota Gál -- Ota Gál -- Ota Gál -- Ota Gál -- Ota Gál -- Ota Gál -- Ota Gál -- Ota Gál -- Ota Gál -- Ota Gál -- Ota Gál.

"In this book, Ota Gál 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"--

ISBN: 9789004510203 9789004510197

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789004510203 DOI

LCCN: 2022004238

Subjects--Personal Names:
Plotinus.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Aesthetics--Early works to 1800.

LC Class. No.: B693.Z7

Dewey Class. No.: 186/.4