Plotinus on Sense-Perception
A Philosophical Study

This book is a philosophical analysis of Plotinus' views on sense-perception.

Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson (Author)

9780521065955, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 April 2008

192 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.29 kg

This book is a philosophical analysis of Plotinus' views on sense-perception. It aims to show how his thoughts were both original and a development of the ideas of his predecessors, in particular those of Plato, Aristotle and the Peripatetics. Special attention is paid to Plotinus' dualism with respect to soul and body and its implications for his views on the senses. The author combines a historical approach to his subject, setting Plotinus' thought in the context of thinkers who preceded and succeeded him, with a proper analysis of his ideas and, where appropriate, of those from which they derived.

1. Plotinus' metaphysics
2. Plotinus' views on the soul and man
3. The relation between the eye and the object of vision
4. Sensory affection
5. The unity of the senses
6. The objects of perception
7. Perceptions as acts and form in perception
8. Conclusions.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]