Eduard Zeller und der Neuplatonismus

Horn, Christoph

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“…Here we fĳind studies by Schwyzer (1951), Schiavone (1952), Bonetti (1971), Tigerstedt (1974), Matton (1992), O'Meara (1992O'Meara ( , 1993, Horn (2010) and others, who examine the reception of Plotinus' Enneads in this period.3 I shall use their work as one point of departure, observing that these scholars have failed to identify and examine one crucial methodological concept employed on Plotinus' texts, namely the concept of a 'system of philosophy', which was invented by 18th-century German historians, Brucker foremost among them.…”

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“…Although one should be careful not to read Plotinus' spatial images too literally, it is worth mentioning that several of his statements about the ontological relationship between these realities point in another direction: the body of the individual is in its soul, not vice versa.129 The hypostasis Soul is in Intellect: "Soul is not in the universe, but the universe in it: for body is not the soul's place, but Soul is in Intellect and body in Soul".130 123) For Zeller's methodology, see Zeller (1888) Horn (2010). Compare with Beierwaltes (1987) and.…”

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“…3) Schwyzer (1951) cols. 471-592; Schiavone (1952a) 45-76;Schiavone (1952b) 97-108;Bonetti (1971) 487-511;Tigerstedt (1974); O'Meara (1992) 58-60;O'Meara (1993) 111-119;Horn (2010) 137-152. See also the inventory in O'Brien (1982) 143-186.…”

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Changing Interpretations of Plotinus: The 18th-Century Introduction of the Concept of a ‘System of Philosophy’

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This article critically explores the history and nature of a hermeneutic assumption which frequently guided interpretations of Plotinus from the 18th century onwards, namely that Plotinus advanced a system of philosophy. It is argued that this assumption was introduced relatively late, in the 18th and 19th centuries, and that it was primarily made possible by Brucker’s methodology for the history of philosophy, dating from the 1740s, to which the concept of a ‘system of philosophy’ was essential. It is observed that the concept is absent from Ficino’s commentary from the 15th century, and that it remained absent in interpretations produced between the 15th and 18th centuries. It is also argued that the assumption of a ‘system of philosophy’ in Plotinus is historically incorrect—we do not find this concept in Plotinus’ writings, and his own statements about method point in other directions. Eduard Zeller (active in the second half of the 19th century) is typically regarded as the first to give a satisfying account of Plotinus’ philosophy as a whole. In this article, on the other hand, Zeller is seen as having finalised a tradition initiated in the 18th century. Very few Plotinus scholars have examined the interpretative development prior to Zeller. Schiavone (1952) and Bonetti (1971), for instance, have given little attention to Brucker’s introduction of the concept of a ‘system of philosophy’. The present analysis, then, has value for an understanding of Plotinus’ Enneads. It also explains why “pre-Bruckerian” interpretations of Plotinus appear alien to the modern reader; the analysis may even serve to make some sense of the hermeneutics employed by Renaissance Platonists and commentators, who are often eclipsed from the tradition of Platonism.

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The Origin of the Division Between Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism

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The division of Ancient Platonism into Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism is a fairly new one. The conceptual foundation of this division was cemented in Jacob Brucker's pioneering Historia critica philosophiae (1742-67). In the 1770s and 1780s, the term 'Neoplatonism' was coined on the basis of Brucker's analysis. Three historiographical concepts were decisive to Brucker: 'system of philosophy', 'eclecticism' and 'syncretism'. By means of these concepts, he characterized Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism as opposing philosophical movements, the former being a genuine form of Platonism, the latter a false form. However, the division is untenable and we ought to abandon it.

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Changing Interpretations of Plotinus: The Eighteenth-Century Introduction of the Concept of a ‘System of Philosophy’

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Eduard Zeller und der Neuplatonismus

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