nam a22 c 4500 bsp.17/121009689 nljbp 250625021753.2 cr ||||||||||| 131216s1991 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 0091023974 9789027277985 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp B693.E6 186/.4 20 HP bicssc PHI000000 bisacsh Oosthout, Henri author Modes of Knowledge and the Transcendental An introduction to Plotinus Ennead 5.3 [49] Henri Oosthout Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991 ©1991 1 online resource (vii, 200 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie 1384-668X 17 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Preface -- I Introduction -- 1 Interpreting Plotinus -- 2 The Treatise ≪Modes of Knowledge and the Transcendental≫ -- II Aspects of the Plotinian Universe -- A Transcendental Method -- Self-knowledge and the Concept of ≪We≫ -- An Antithesis Between the Psychical and the Physical Realm? -- Idealism or Realism? -- Unity as a Limiting Concept -- III Modes of Knowledge and the Transcendental -- 1 Modes of Self-Knowledge -- 2 The Ultimate Limit of Thought The philosophy of Plotinus is usually depicted as a quest for the absolute, outside and beyond the world of human knowledge and experience. Yet in the late treatise Ennead 5.3 [49], Plotinus shows himself a philosopher of the transcendental, rather than of the transcendent. Starting from a critical analysis of the idea of self-knowledge, he develops a world-view in which central notions of his metaphysics are represented, not as different “hypostases” or transcendent beings, but as limiting cases of reality as we human beings know it. Fundamental to this world-view is Plotinus' assumption that a close analogy can be established between the psychological and the physical description of man. Provided by publisher. Classical philosophy Oosthout, Henri author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991 9789060323199 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/bsp.17 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027277985