( Dedication copy: ) The Enneads. Third edition revised by b. S. Page. With a foreword by professor E. R. Dodds and an introduction by professor Paul Henry, S.J.

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lxx, 636 p. Handschriftliche Widmung von Paul Henry auf dem Vorsatz mit Tinte. Der Buchrücken ist leicht fleckig, die Seiten sind papierbedingt leicht nachgedunkelt, ansonsten ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. / Handwritten dedication by Paul Henry on the endpaper in ink. The spine is slightly stained, the pages are slightly darkened due to the paper, otherwise a very good and clean copy without markings. -- CONTENTS - Foreword: by E. R. DODDS - Preface to the Second Edition - Preface to the Third Edition - Extracts from the Explanatory Matter in the First Edition - Introduction: The Place of Plotinus in the History of Thought: by PAUL HENRY, S.J. - Porphyry's Life of Plotinus - THE FIRST ENNEAD - 1. The Animate and the Man - 11. The Virtues - III. Dialectic - Iv. Happiness - v. Happiness and Extension of Time - VI. Beauty - VII. The Primal Good and Secondary Forms of Good - VIII. The Nature and Source of Evil - Ix. 'The Reasoned Dismissal' - THE SECOND ENNEAD - 1. The Heavenly System - II. The Heavenly Circuit - III. Are the Stars Causes? - IV. Matter - v. Potentiality and Actuality - VI. Quality - VII. 'Complete Transfusion' - VIII. Why Distant Objects Appear Small - IX. Against the Gnostics; or, Against Those that Affirm the Creator of the Cosmos and the Cosmos Itself to be Evil - THE THIRD ENNEAD - 1. Fate - II. Providence (I) - III. Providence (II) - IV. Our Tutelary Spirit - v. Love - VI. The Impassivity of the Unembodied - VII. Time and Eternity - VIII. Nature, Contemplation, and the One - IX. Detached Considerations - THE FOURTH ENNEAD - 1. On the Essence of the Soul (I) - II. On the Essence of the Soul (II) - III. Problems of the Soul (I) - Iv. Problems of the Soul (II) - v. Problems of the Soul (III); or, On Sight - VI. Perception and Memory - VII. The Immortality of the Soul - VIII. The Soul's Descent into Body - IX. Are all Souls One? - THE FIFTH ENNEAD - 1. The Three Initial Hypostases - 11. The Origin and Order of the Beings following on the First - III. The Knowing Hypostases and the Transcendent - IV. How the Secondaries Rise from the First; and on the One - v. That the Intellectual Beings are not outside the Intellectual- Principle; and on the Nature of the Good - VI. That the Principle transcending Being has no Intellectual Act. What being has Intellection primally and what being has it secondarily - VII. Is there an Ideal Archetype of Particular Beings? - VIII. On the Intellectual Beauty - IX. The Intellectual-Principle, the Ideas, and the Authentic Existence - THE SIXTH ???EAD - 1. On the Kinds of Being (I) - II. On the Kinds of Being (II) - III. On the Kinds of Being (III) - IV. On the Integral Omnipresence of the Authentic Existent (I) - v. On the Integral Omnipresence of the Authentic Existent (II) - VI. On Numbers - VII. How the Multiplicity of the Ideal-Forms came into being; and on the Good - VIII. On Free Will and the Will of the One - IX. On the Good, or the One - APPENDICES - I. Select Bibliography - II. The Chronological Order - III. Sources of Quotations. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.

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• Title: ( Dedication copy: ) The Enneads. Third edition revised by b. S. Page. With a foreword by professor E. R. Dodds and an introduction by professor Paul Henry, S.J.
• Publisher: London: Faber and Faber
• Language: German
• Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket.
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 250 grams
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