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ISBN: 9781733535762

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From the rear cover

"Getting matter right is at least as important for a credible Platonist system as a robust account of the forms; indeed, for Plotinus, it is required for that as well. Yet, as his discussion quickly shows, nothing is harder to talk about--and that is what makes this volume so welcome. Long's commentary, accompanying his excellent translation, finds remarkable clarity of purpose in Plotinus' account of the subject, not least through a careful delineation of the wider debates that Plotinus had in view. Ennead II.4 is essential reading: Long offers powerful help in making it readable."--George Boys-Stones, Professor of Classics and Philosophy, University of Toronto "The concept of this series is unique in English: there is no other treatise-by-treatise annotated translation series of Plotinus' writings accessible to nonspecialists. [. . .] The editors have judged well the balance between readability and the need for serious exegesis."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Details

Title Plotinus Ennead II.4: On Matter: Translation with an Introduction and Commentary
Author A. a. Long
Binding Paperback
Pages 239
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Parmenides Publishing
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9781733535762 / 1733535764
Dimensions 7.5 x 5 x 0.7 in (19.05 x 12.70 x 1.78 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Ancient, Matter
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021062428
Dewey Decimal Code 186.4

About the author

A. A. Long is Chancellor's Professor of Classics Emeritus and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught previously at the University of Otago, University College London, and the University of Liverpool, where he was Gladstone Professor of Greek from 1973-1983. His books include Hellenistic Philosophy (1974/1986), which has been translated into many European and Asian languages, Stoic Studies (1996/2001), Epictetus. A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (2002), and Greek Models of Mind and Self (2015). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy, and he holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Crete.