TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eliasson,Erik
TI  - The notion of that which depends on us in Plotinus and its background
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2008
SN  - 9789047433279
AV  - B693.Z7 E45 2008
U1  - 186/.4 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Plotinus.
KW  - Ethics, Ancient
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-239) and index; Preliminary Materials -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Plotinus: Preliminary Remarks -- Chapter Three. Aristotle And The Early Commentators -- Chapter Four. Stoics -- Chapter Five. Middle Platonists -- Chapter Six. Plotinus Reconsidered -- Chapter Seven. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004166141.i-253
ER  -