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Paperback Plotinus Ennead II.4: On Matter: Translation with an Introduction and Commentary Book

ISBN: 1733535764

ISBN13: 9781733535762

Plotinus Ennead II.4: On Matter: Translation with an Introduction and Commentary

In Ennead II.4 Plotinus investigates the question of what underlies the forms that constitute the contents of our minds and senses. Aristotle had called this substrate "matter," and Stoic philosophers followed suit. With a critical review of their notions, and reference to Plato's so-called Receptacle, Plotinus develops an account of matter that makes it a supremely negative entity. How he describes the indescribable, and how he justifies incorporeal...

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