Plotinus on Number

ISBN: 9780195377194 出版年：2009 页码：189 Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla Oxford University Press

Introduction: One by Number 1. Platonic Cosmology on Plotinian Terms Ennead VI.6 and the Timaeus Origin of Multiplicity in Plotinus Plotinus' apostasies and Numenius' stasis The Universe as Degrees of Separation from the One 2. Multiplicity as Number Surfacing from "the Neopythagorean Underground" Outward and Inward Direction of Multiplicity in VI.6 Multiplicity as Effluence and Unity 3. "The Number of Infinity" Plato's Position Aristotle's Criticism of Plato and the Platonists Plotinus' Answer 4. Number and Substance Plotinus' Three Hypotheses about Number in the Intelligible Realm Is Substantial Number Discrete and Incidental? The Whole Number of Beings The Substantial and Monadic Number 5. Number and the Universe Substantial Number and the One Substantial Number and the Absolute Being Substantial Number and Intellect Substantial Number and Beings Substantial Number and the Complete Living Being Soul and Number THE UNFIGURED FIGURE OF SOUL'S DANCE 6. Unity of Thought and Writing Porphyry and the Enneads Enneads VI.6 "Six Along with the Nines" Conclusion: In Defense of Plato Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects Index Locorum