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Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics

Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics

Narbonne, Jean-Marc

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, Book 11

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 9004203265
ISBN13: 9789004203266
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 18 2011
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
The point of view put forth in the following pages differs greatly from the common perspective according to which the treatises 30 to 33 constitute a single work, a Gro schrift, and this single work, Plotinus' essential response to the Gnostics. Our perspective is that of an ongoing discussions with his Gnostic--yet Platonizing--friends, which started early in his writings (at least treatise 6), developed into what we could call a Gro zyklus (treatises 27 to 39), and went on in later treatises as well (e. g. 47-48, 51). The prospect of an ongoing discussion with the Gnostics bears an additional virtue, that of allowing for a truly dynamic understanding of the Plotinian corpus.

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