Ennead, Volume 5: That the Intelligibles Are Not External to the Intellect, and on the Good

by Lloyd P. Gerson

Platonists beginning in the Old Academy itself and up to and including Plotinus struggled to understand and articulate the relation between Plato's Demiurge and the Living Animal which served as the model for creation. The central question is whether "contents" of the Living Animal, the Forms, are internal to the mind of the Demiurge or external and independent. For Plotinus, the solution depends heavily on how the Intellect that is the Demiurge and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930972857
• ISBN13: 9781930972858
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher