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  1. Presežne prisotnosti: eseji o Plotinovi metafiziki svetlobe.Marko Uršič - 2021 - Ljubljana: Slovenska matica.
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  2. Proclus on Aristotle on Plato: a case study on motion.Rareș Ilie Marinescu - 2025 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
    Refutes the often-held view that Proclus - in line with other Neoplatonists - adheres to the idea of an essential harmony between Plato and Aristotle. Enables a reassessment of the reception and authority of Aristotle in late antiquity, a crucial period for the transmission of Aristotelian thought.
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  3. Plotinus: the Enneads. Plotinus - 2025 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. Translated by Lloyd P. Gerson.
    The second edition of the first English translation of the complete works of Plotinus in one volume in seventy years. Led by Lloyd P. Gerson, a team of experts present up-to-date translations which are based on the best available text, the edition minor of Henry and Schwyzer and its corrections.
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  4. Platonic principles: essays in honor of Lloyd Gerson.Sarah K. Wear & Carl O'Brien (eds.) - 2025 - Steubenville: Franciscan University Press.
    In a series of specially commissioned essays, an international team of scholars examine both Platonism's metaphysical principles (the One or the Form of the Good and the Indefinite Dyad: the principles that account for unity and multiplicity) and the tradition's role as a source for ethical and political principles. In honor of Lloyd Gerson's remarkable contribution to Platonic scholarship, the full breadth of the tradition has been explored: from Plato's own manipulation of the wisdom that preceded him via his students (...)
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  5. (2 other versions)Plotinus.Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson - 2026 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    Plotinus (AD 205-270) was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of Plotinus' philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time. Beginning with a chapter-length overview of Plotinus' life and works which also assesses the Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic traditions that influenced him, Emilsson goes on to address key topics including: Plotinus' (...)
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  6. Wisdom Created or Absolute? Philo and Origen on First Principles.Francisco Bastitta Harriet - 2024 - In Alfons Fürst, Origeniana Tertia decima. Origen and Philosophy: A complex relation. Leuven: Peeters. pp. 305-318.
    The purpose of this paper is to examine and compare the use of the concept and image of divine Sophia in the works of Philo, the great Jewish scholar from Alexandria, and Origen, who was raised in the same city two centuries later and certainly read Philo’s texts in detail. Both authors describe two different aspects or phases of Wisdom: one that is more divine and transcendent, and the other that is closely related to creation. Our analysis of this twofold (...)
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  7. Augustine’s “Illumination” Theory: Correcting Bonaventure and Gilson via Plotinus and Marius Victorinus.Sarah Catherine Byers - 2024 - In Douglas Hedley & Daniel J. Tolan, Participation in the divine: a philosophical history, from antiquity to the modern era. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. pp. 128-161.
    This chapter shows that Augustine’s “divine illumination theory of knowledge” is merely his belief that the human mind is capable of intellectual cognition because it naturally “participates” in the Divine Mind, as its image. Consequently, Bonaventure's and Gilson's claim that Augustine thought the human mind must be enlightened by special divine assistance in ordinary (non-mystical) intellectual cognition is erroneous. That is true of the whole of Augustine's writing career: earlier works such as On the Teacher and the Confessions agree with (...)
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  8. Self-Deception, Despair, and Healing in Boethius' Consolation.Ryan M. Brown - 2025 - In John F. Finamore, R. Loredana Cardullo & Chiara Militello, Platonism Through the Centuries. Chepstow: Prometheus Trust. pp. 219-248.
    In the Consolation of Philosophy, Lady Philosophy leads Boethius through a series of obstacles that prevent him from finding happiness within his prison cell: the role that luck and misfortune play in our affairs, the false paths to happiness in comparison with the true journey, the problem of evil and the disproportion between people’s lives and eschatological deserts, and, finally, whether God’s providential order necessitates our outcomes or if we can choose freely to pursue the happy life. As the pair (...)
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  9. Platonism Through the Centuries.John F. Finamore, R. Loredana Cardullo & Chiara Militello (eds.) - 2025 - Chepstow: Prometheus Trust.
    The papers in this anthology, are collected from the papers given at the 20th annual conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies in Catania, Sicily. The authors of the twenty chapters of this anthology cover a wide range of topics and of philosophers, including Plato, Plotinus, Iamblichus, the Emperor Julian, Hierocles, Proclus, Syrianus, Olympiodorus, Boethius, Albertus Magnus, Catherine of Genoa, Robert Grosseteste , and Carl Jung. -/- Edited by R. Loredana Cardullo, John F. Finamore and Chiara Militello. Other contributors: (...)
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  10. Interpretation of Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's five terms. Ammonius - 2019 - London: Bloomsbury Academic. Translated by Michael Chase.
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  11. UNIVERSALS, CAUSES AND METAPHYSICAL HIERARCHY IN EARLY NEOPLATONISM - (R.) Chiaradonna Ontology in Early Neoplatonism. Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus. (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina 9.) Pp. viii + 237. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Cased, £120, €134.95, US$151.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-099751-4. [REVIEW]Roberto Granieri - forthcoming - The Classical Review:1-3.
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  12. (1 other version)Ennead. Plotinus - 2025 - Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing.
    In Ennead I.8 Plotinus argues that evil is not intrinsic to the soul; the treatise includes an account of the metaphysical status of matter and a nuanced presentation of the way in which matter and the soul can together be responsible for moral evil.
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  13. (1 other version)Note on the Fittingness of Negative Naming in Sacred Theology: The Corpus Dionysiacum and Father Bernard Lonergan, SJ.David Francis Sherwood - 2025 - Heythrop Journal 66 (1):24–37.
    Within a broadly Thomistic frame, this paper shows how simple apophaticism in the theology of Pseudo‐Dionysius the Areopagite is the more fitting mode of knowing the triune God, beyond the use of all divine names. Specifically, we will proceed using the work of Father Bernard Lonergan, SJ on theological fittingness. After setting forth Father Lonergan's understanding of fittingness, the paper will proceed through Dionysius's cataphatic names, apophatic names, and apophatic silence. The cataphatic and apophatic names, while true, useful, and fittingly (...)
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  14. Isagoge. Porphyry - 1969 - Padova: Liviana.
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  15. NEOPLATONISM AND GENDER - (J.) Schultz, (J.) Wilberding (edd.) Women and the Female in Neoplatonism. (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 30.) Pp. xiv + 312. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. Cased, €135. ISBN: 978-90-04-51046-3. [REVIEW]Emilie Kutash - 2024 - The Classical Review 74 (2):620-623.
  16. Soul and Deification in Proclus, Nicholas of Methone, and the Palamite Controversy.Jonathan Greig - 2025 - In Sarah K. Wear & Carl O'Brien, Platonic principles: essays in honor of Lloyd Gerson. Steubenville: Franciscan University Press.
  17. Théodicée plotinienne, théodicée gnostique.Denis O'Brien - 1993 - New York: E.J. Brill.
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  18. (2 other versions)Plotinus.Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson - 2017 - New York: Routledge, Taylor Francis Group.
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  19. Evil demons in De mysteriis : assessing the Iamblichean critique of Porphyry's Demonology.Seamus O'Neill - 2018 - In Luc Brisson, Seamus Joseph O'Neill & Andrei Timotin, Neoplatonic Demons and Angels. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
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  20. (1 other version)Post-Hellenistic philosophy: a study of its development from the Stoics to Origen.George Boys-Stones - 2020 - New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press.
    This book traces, for the first time, a revolution in philosophy which took place during the early centuries of our era. It reconstructs the philosophical basis of the Stoics' theory that fragments of an ancient and divine wisdom could be reconstructed from mythological traditions, and shows that Platonism was founded on an argument that Plato had himself achieved a full reconstruction of this wisdom, and that subsequent philosophies had only regressed once again in their attempts to 'improve' on his achievement. (...)
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  21. El alma del mundo en Plotino.Ana Rodríguez Allen - 2022 - Heredia, Costa Rica: EUNA.
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  22. Plotinus on what we think we are.Wiebke-Marie Stock - 2024 - Boston: Brill.
    The Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus invites us to take part in his philosophizing when he encourages his readers to think about what they think they are, as living beings, human beings, as rational beings, ethical subjects and as philosophers. He is interested in what we say about ourselves in ordinary language and notices that such ordinary experience conflicts with what the Platonic tradition claims we (truly) are. This conflict does not lead him to turn away from the human terms and expressions, (...)
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  23. Porphyry in Syriac: the treatise On principles and matter and its place in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac philosophical traditions.I︠U︡. N. Arzhanov (ed.) - 2024 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    In 2021, a previously unknown treatise by Porphyry of Tyre, which has been preserved in a Syriac translation, was made available to historians of philosophy: Porphyry, On Principles and Matter (De Gruyter, 2021). This text not only enlarges our knowledge of the legacy of the most prominent disciple of Plotinus but also serves as an important witness to Platonist discussions of first principles and of Plato's concept of prime matter in the Timaeus. The aim of the present volume of collected (...)
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  24. The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus, edited by Lloyd P. Gerson & James Wilberding.John Dillon - 2024 - International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 18 (2):247-250.
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  25. Neoplatonic Political Subjectivity?Tim Riggs - 2022 - International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 18 (2):152-177.
    I argue that in his commentary on Epictetus’ Encheiridion, Simplicius derives a method by which his students can enter into the process of self-constitution, which is only achieved through completion of the study of Plato’s dialogues. The result of following the method is the attainment of a perspective consonant with the level of political virtue, which I call ‘political subjectivity’. This is a speculative interpretation of the effect the student would. experience in following the method, accomplished through analyses of Simplicius’ (...)
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  26. (1 other version)The philosophy of Plotinus.William Ralph Inge - 1918 - New York [etc.]: Longmans, Green.
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  27. (2 other versions)From Platonism to Neoplatonism.Philip Merlan - 1953 - The Hague,: M. Nijhoff.
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  28. (1 other version)Iflūṭīn ʻinda al-ʻArab.ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī - 1955 - Edited by Plotinus.
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  29. (4 other versions)The Enneads. Plotinus - 1957 - New York: Pantheon Books. Edited by Stephen Mackenna & B. S. Page.
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  30. (1 other version)Monopsychism, mysticism, metaconsciousness.Philip Merlan - 1963 - The Hague,: Martinus Nijhoff.
    Part of the material contained in the present book was presented in the form of a lecture course given by me at the University of Oxford in I962 as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer. Scripps College and the Claremont Graduate School contributed to the cost of research and publication. The staff of the Honnold Library, Claremont, California, was extremely obliging in matters concerning inter-library loans. The page proofs were read in part by Professor Richard Walzer, the University of Oxford. Mr. Salih (...)
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  31. (2 other versions)From Platonism to Neoplatonism.Philip Merlan - 1969 - The Hague,: Martinus Nijhoff.
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  32. Die Philosophie des Neuplatonismus.Clemens Zintzen (ed.) - 1977 - Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, [Abt. Verl.].
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  33. (4 other versions)The enneads. Plotinus - 1969 - Franklin Center, Pa.: Franklin Library. Edited by Stephen MacKenna & B. S. Page.
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  34. Proclo negli ultimi quarant'anni: bibliografia ragionata della letteratura primaria e secondaria riguardante il pensiero procliano e i suoi influssi storici (anni 1949-1992).Nicoletta Scotti Muth - 1993 - Milano: Vita e pensiero.
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  35. Kenologische Versuche. Der Johannesprolog zwischen Nāgārjuna, Vasubandhu und Meister Eckhart.Fabien Muller - 2022 - Münster: Aschendorff.
    My aim in this book is to formulate a comparativist, Buddhist-Neoplatonic interpretation of the idea of “logos” in the Prologue to the Gospel according to John. I proceed in three steps. I begin with Nāgārjuna’s doctrine of emptiness. Nāgārjuna thinks that that all things are empty because they depend on causes and conditions in a way that makes it impossible for them to genuinely exist. Nevertheless, they are not completely non-existent, for they possess the appearance of something that exists. This (...)
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  36. (1 other version)The middle platonists, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220.John M. Dillon - 1996 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
    Table of Contents Preface Abbreviations 1 The Old Academy and the Themes of Middle Platonism 1 2 Antiochus of Ascalon: The Turn to Dogmatism 52 3 Platonism at Alexandria: Eudorus and Philo 114 4 Plutarch of Chaeroneia and the Origins of Second-Century Platonism 184 5 The Athenian School in the Second Century A.D. 231 6 The 'School of Gaius': Shadow and Substance 266 7 The Neopythagoreans 341 8 Some Loose Ends 384 Bibliography 416 Afterword 422 General Index 453 Index of (...)
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  37. Isagoge. Porphyry, Alain de Libera & A. Ph Segonds - 1998 - Paris: Vrin. Edited by Boethius, Alain de Libera & A. Ph Segonds.
    L'Isagoge est une introduction aux Categories. Porphyre y definit les cinq predicables (genre, espece, difference, propre et accident) et formule ce qui, grace a Boece, deviendra le principal probleme logique et metaphysique du Moyen Age occidental - le probleme des universaux -, ouvrant la querelle qui, jusqu'a la fin du XVe siecle, verra s'affronter realistes et nominalistes. La traduction francaise ici proposee est accompagnee du texte grec original et de la traduction latine de Boece.
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  38. Porphyry’s Account of Justice in On Abstinence.Miira Tuominen - 2024 - Phronesis 69 (3):356-381.
    In this essay, I argue for a new analysis of Porphyry’s argument for justice in On abstinence. I aim to show that (i) in addition to being an inner order of soul, justice is attributed to external actions and (ii) justice of actions consists in refraining from harming harmless living creatures, including animals and plants. The relevant harm, I argue, consists in taking the lives of living creatures and taking products from them by force or without care. I contend that (...)
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  39. Painting and Dancing: Scales of Virtue and Inspiration in Late Ancient Platonism.Michael J. Griffin - manuscript
    This paper explores two related questions in late Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism. First, how can a philosopher contemplate the eternal Forms while engaging in practical agency in the world? Second, do Neoplatonists provide a consistent account of the philosopher’s progress through the ‘stages of virtue’ (βαθμοί τῶν ἀρετῶν), the conceptual structure that underpins late antique philosophical curricula and hagiography? These questions interact, I suggest, because later Platonists appeal to the stages of virtue and divine maniai (βαθμοί τῶν μανίων) to explain (...)
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  40. Formen und Nebenformen des Platonismus in der Spätantike.Helmut Seng, Gabriela Soares Santoprete & Chiara O. Tommasi (eds.) - 2016 - Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
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  41. All from one: a guide to Proclus.Pieter D' Hoine & Marije Martijn (eds.) - 2017 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    Proclus (412-485 A.D.) was one of the last great philosophers of Antiquity. His legacy in the cultural history of the west can hardly be overestimated. This work is the most comprehensive guide to Proclus' life, thought and legacy that is currently available.
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  42. In Plotinum =.Marsilio Ficino - 2020 - New York: Georg Olms Verlag. Edited by Peter Riemer, Clemens Zintzen & Marsilio Ficino.
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  43. The Platonizing Sethian background of Plotinus's mysticism.Alexander J. Mazur - 2021 - Boston: Brill. Edited by Dylan M. Burns, Kevin Corrigan, Ivan Miroshnikov, Tuomas Rasimus & John D. Turner.
    In The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus's Mysticism, Zeke Mazur offers a radical reconceptualization of Plotinus with reference to Gnostic thought and praxis. A crucial element in the thought of the third-century CE philosopher Plotinus-his conception of mystical union with the One-cannot be understood solely within the conventional history of philosophy, or as the product of a unique, sui generis psychological propensity. This monograph demonstrates that Plotinus tacitly patterned his mystical ascent to the One on a type of visionary ascent (...)
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  44. Creation as Divine Absence: A Metaphysical Reframing of the Problem of Evil.Megan Fritts - forthcoming - Religious Studies.
    The philosophical “problem of evil” goes back at least as far as Epicurus and has remained a powerful argument against the existence of God in contemporary philosophy. The argument is rooted in apparent contradictions between God’s divine attributes and various conditions of human existence. But these contradictions arise only given certain assumptions of what we should expect both God and the world to be like given God’s existence. In this paper, I argue that we can utilize the work of the (...)
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  45. Being and Existence in the Consolation of Philosophy.Michael Wiitala - 2024 - In Boethius' _Consolation of Philosophy_: A Critical Guide. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. pp. 169-185.
    This chapter examines the notion of being in the Consolation of Philosophy and contrasts it with modern notions of existence. The notions in the Consolation relevant to this inquiry are those expressed by the verbs esse and exsistere. The chapter argues that the basic notion of exsistere in the Consolation should be understood as “to be manifest,” while the basic notion of esse should be understood as “to be something or other” or “to be intelligible.” Furthermore, the chapter demonstrates that (...)
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  46. Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I: Crafting the Contemplative.James M. Ambury - 2024 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
    Many philosophers in the ancient world shared a unitary vision of philosophy – meaning 'love of wisdom' – not just as a theoretical discipline, but as a way of life. Specifically, for the late Neoplatonic thinkers, philosophy began with self-knowledge, which led to a person's inner conversion or transformation into a lover, a human being erotically striving toward the totality of the real. This metamorphosis amounted to a complete existential conversion. It was initiated by learned guides who cultivated higher and (...)
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  47. The Two Principles between On Principles and Matter and Porphyry's Other Works.Jonathan Greig - 2024 - In Yury Arzhanov, Porphyry in Syriac: The Treatise ›On Principles and Matter‹ and its Place in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Philosophical Traditions. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 97-116.
    In the newly-discovered “On Principles and Matter”—we can definitely ascertain by Porphyry—the author concludes that there must be two principles responsible for all beings, or at least all sensible beings: God (the active cause) and matter (the passive cause). In large part this agrees with Atticus’ position, which the text also quotes, and which we also know Porphyry engaged with vigorously, from Proclus’ Timaeus Commentary. However there is a something odd about this text’s Porphyry: we seem to have a positive (...)
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  48. Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The ‘Enneads’ Commentary.Stephen Gersh - 2024 - Leiden: BRILL.
    This first complete study of Marsilio Ficino’s _Commentary on Plotinus_, published in 1492, will serve as the definitive analysis of Ficino’s late philosophy and also as an essential companion to Gersh’s edition-translation of the same work.
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  49. Proclo - lo stile e il sistema della teologia.Miriam Cutino - 2023 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    Proclus, successor of the School of Athens in the fifth century AD, is one of the last great voices of a pagan polytheistic world in crisis in the face of the gradual rise of Christianity. His writing bears witness not only to one of the most influential metaphysical representations for the constitution of the idea of a philosophical "system" based on a complex "language game" based on the conceptual sphere of "order" and "unity", but also of an attempt to reconcile (...)
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  50. Porphyre, Lettre à Marcella: édition critique, traduction française, introduction et notes.Jean-François Pradeau - 2023 - Boston: Brill. Edited by Porphyry.
    Porphyrius (234 - 305), Plotinus' disciple and editor of his Enneads, addresses his letter to Marcella, an aging woman, whom he married late in life. He explains to her the reasons for leaving her, after only ten months of marriage. He invites her to leave passions behind to lead a philosophical life along the lines of the major ethical principles inspired by Plato. Porphyrius takes a strong stand as an apologist of traditional philosophical teachings. The Letter to Marcella provides a (...)
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