Plotinus on the Beautiful and on Intelligible Beauty

by Plotinus

This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.

36 pages, Hardcover

Published October 27, 2013

About the author

Egyptian-born Roman philosopher Plotinus and his successors in the 3rd century at Alexandria founded and developed Neoplatonism, a philosophical system, which, based on Platonism with elements of mysticism and some Judaic and Christian concepts, posits a single source from which all existence emanates and with which one mystically can unite an individual soul; The Enneads collects his writings.

Saint Thomas Aquinas combined elements of this system and other philosophy within a context of Christian thought.

People widely consider this major of the ancient world alongside Ammonius Saccas, his teacher.
He influenced in late antiquity. Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from preface of Porphyry to his edition. His metaphysical writings inspired centuries of pagan, Islamic, and Gnostic metaphysicians and mystics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus

Reviews

[Emad]

An unsuccessful attempt to explain the hierarchy of existence

[Samuel]

Wasn’t as insightful as I hoped it would be. Most of the thoughts on the topic of beauty that are highlighted in this book are already common knowledge. But that’s just my opinion.