TY - BOOK AU - Gál,Ota TI - Plotinus on Beauty: Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity T2 - Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition SN - 9789004510203 AV - B693.Z7 U1 - 186/.4 23/eng/20220218 PY - 2022/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Plotinus. KW - Aesthetics KW - Early works to 1800 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Ota Gál --; Copyright Page; Ota Gál --; Acknowledgements; Ota Gál --; Abbreviations; Ota Gál --; Chapter 1 Introduction; Ota Gál --; Chapter 2 Beauty as a Stepping-Stone (Treatise  I .6); Ota Gál --; Chapter 3 Intelligible Beauty (Treatise  V .8); Ota Gál --; Chapter 4 Unity, Multiplicity and the Highest Kinds (Treatise  VI .2); Ota Gál --; Chapter 5 Unity, Multiplicity and the Numbers (Treatise  VI .6); Ota Gál --; Chapter 6 Beauty as the Manifestation of the Good (Treatise  VI .7); Ota Gál --; Chapter 7 Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity; Ota Gál --; Bibliography; Ota Gál --; Index; Ota Gál N2 - "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"-- UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004510203 ER -