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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Text; Introduction; The Structure of the Book; Chapter 1 Self; 1.1 Levels of Selfhood; 1.2 True Self as Intellect; 1.3 Individuation of Intellect; 1.4 Subjectivity; Chapter 2 Consciousness Terms; Chapter 3 First Layer: The Soul-Trace; 3.1 The Qualified Body; 3.2 Unification of the Qualified Body; 3.3 Animal Awareness; Chapter 4 Second Layer: The Lower Soul; 4.1 The Role of the Imagination; 4.2 Apprehension of Pleasures and Pains; 4.3 Apprehension of Sense-Perception |
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4.3.1 Sense-Organs Are in Sympathy with External Objects4.3.2 Sense-Perceptions Are Judgments; 4.3.3 Soul's Power of Perception Is of Internal Images; 4.4 Apprehension of Thought; 4.4.1 The Meaning of Logos in IV. 3.30; 4.4.2 The Relation between Intellect and Discursive Reasoning; 4.4.3 The Relationship between Discursive Reasoning and Language; 4.5 Consciousness of Thought; Chapter 5 Third Layer: The Higher Soul; 5.1 Intellect as Primary Thinker; 5.2 Awareness in the Formation of Intellect; 5.3 Awareness in Self-Intellection; 5.4 Awareness in Human Intellection; 5.5 The One's Awareness; Chapter 6 Self-Determination6.1 Providence, Destiny, and Human Action; 6.2 Self-Determination; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Modern Editions and Translations of the Enneads; Secondary Literature; General Index; Index Locorum |
| Summary |
Plotinus is the first Greek philosopher to hold a systematic theory of consciousness. The key feature of his theory is that it involves multiple layers of experience: different layers of consciousness occur in different levels of self. This layering of higher modes of consciousness on lower ones provides human beings with a rich experiential world, and enables human beings to draw on their own experience to investigate their true self and the nature of reality. This involves a robust notion of subjectivity. However, it is a notion of subjectivity that is unique to Plotinus, and remarkably different from the Post-Cartesian tradition. Behind the plurality of terms Plotinus uses to express consciousness, and behind the plurality of entities to which Plotinus attributes consciousness (such as the divine souls and the hypostases), lies a theory of human consciousness. It is a Platonist theory shaped by engagement with rival schools of ancient thought |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Plotinus.
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| SUBJECT |
Plotinus fast |
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Consciousness.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Consciousness
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108627139 |
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1108627137 |
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9781108344104 |
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1108344100 |
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