| CODE | PHI1070 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Plotinus - Main Themes | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Philosophy | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Plotinus, sometimes described as the last great pagan philosopher, was the founder of Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophical movement of the Graeco-Roman world in late antiquity. Themes from his philosophy will include: The One and the hierarchy of principles, the Intellect, Soul and the sensible world, Causation and critique of Aristotle, Human beings etc. Reading List - Plotinus (1966-88) Enneads, trans. A.H. Armstrong, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and London: Heinemann. - Armstrong, A.H. (1940) The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the Philosophy of Plotinus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - Gerson, L.P. (1996) Plotinus, London: Routledge. - O’Meara, D.J. Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads, Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Schroeder, F.M. (1992) Form and Transformation: A study in the Philosophy of Plotinus, Montreal:McGill University Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Michael Zammit |
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