“Emanation” in Plotinus

Armstrong, A. H.

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“…As a central concept, they expanded on Plato's allegory of the Sun and turned it into a theory of emanation. Just like light diffuses from the Sun to illuminate all things without depleting or even weakening its source, so do the fundamental modes of existence, like Good, Unity and Order, proceed from their source, the one God [35]-see The Enneads of Plotinus for an early formulation of this theory [36], summarized, e.g., by [37]. Proclus, a Neoplatonist in the 5th century CE, contemplated on the physical constitution of the celestial realm [39,40].…”

Section: From Late Antiquity To the Renaissancementioning

confidence: 99%

The Hearth of the World: The Sun before Astrophysics

Kutrovátz

2024

Universe

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This paper presents a historical overview of conceptions about the Sun in Western astronomical and cosmological traditions before the advent of spectroscopy and astrophysics. Rather than studying general cultural ideas, we focus on the concepts developed by astronomers or by natural philosophers impacting astronomy. The ideas we investigate, from the works of Plato and Aristotle to William Herschel and his contemporaries, do not line up into a continuous and integrated narrative, since the nature of the Sun was not a genuine scientific topic before the nineteenth century. However, the question recurringly arose as embedded in cosmological and physical contexts. By outlining this heterogeneous story that spreads from transcendence to materiality, from metaphysics to physics, from divinity to solar inhabitants, we receive insight into some major themes and trends both in the general development of astronomical and cosmological thought and in the prehistory of modern solar science.

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Section: From Late Antiquity To the Renaissancementioning

confidence: 99%

The Hearth of the World: The Sun before Astrophysics

Kutrovátz

2024

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“…In other words, the One, though supremely self-sufficient, disinterested and impassive, must still somehow be involved in the generation of the cosmos. This tension gives Plotinus' philosophy its depth, subtlety and complexity (Armstrong, 1979).…”

Section: History Of the Human Sciences 20(4) 34mentioning

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The impact of `exile' on thought: Plotinus, Derrida and Gnosticism

Rossbach

2007

History of the Human Sciences

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This article examines the impact of 'exile' -as an individual or collective experience -on how human experience is theorized. The relationship between 'exile' and thought is initially approached historically by looking at the period that Eric Dodds famously called the 'age of anxiety' in late antiquity, i.e. the period between the emperors Aurelius and Constantine. A particular interest is in the dynamics of 'empire' and the concomitant religious ferment as a context in which 'exile', both experientially and symbolically, appears to assume an overbearing significance. Plotinus' narrative of emanation and epistrophe as well as a group of narratives often classified as 'Gnosticism' are juxtaposed as two radical examples of a wider spiritual trend at the time according to which 'exile' could be considered constitutive of human experience. By way of an historical analogy, the insights gained from this study of late antiquity are then used to guide an analysis of the current, 'restless' epoch, in which experiences of displacement and exile on a mass scale undermine traditional notions of belonging, thus reviving the gnostic vision of cosmic reality as an alien, exilic environment. The article concludes with a discussion of Jacques Derrida's work as an example of contemporary gnosticism, in which a 'metaphysics of exile' is presented in the disguise of an 'exile from metaphysics'.

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“…Armstrong (1937Armstrong ( , 1940;Bréhier (1928bBréhier ( , 1924Bréhier ( -1938;Arnou (1921aArnou ( , 1921b. E. R Dodds (1928)…”

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A Escrita grega no Império Romano: recepção e transmissão

2020

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A língua grega não perdeu sua importância com a ascensão de Roma. Não apenas continuou a ser o principal idioma de expressão intelectual nas regiões conquistadas por Alexandre, o Grande, como também se inseriu no coração do mundo romano, onde não poucos a falavam e nela preferiram escrever suas obras. Atentos à importância da língua grega durante toda a Antiguidade, bem como à escassez no Brasil de estudos sobre autores que escreveram em grego durante o Império Romano, o primeiro objetivo desta coletânea é, assim, oferecer uma amostra da riqueza intelectual desse período através de estudos que não apenas escreveram em grego, mas também deram continuidade à tradição literária, filosófica e historiográfica grega. O arco temporal coberto pelos autores presentes neste livro vai do primeiro ao terceiro século da era cristã. São estudos que abordam Paulo de Tarso, Plutarco, Epiteto, Élio Aristides, Luciano de Samósata, Filóstrato, Bábrio, Apolodoro, Máximo de Tiro, Diógenes Láercio e Plotino.

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“Emanation” in Plotinus

Cited by 43 publications

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The Hearth of the World: The Sun before Astrophysics

The Hearth of the World: The Sun before Astrophysics

The impact of `exile' on thought: Plotinus, Derrida and Gnosticism

A Escrita grega no Império Romano: recepção e transmissão

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