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This volume investigates the reasons why Plotinus, a philosopher inspired by Plato, made critical use of Epicurean philosophy. Eminent scholars show that some fundamental Epicurean conceptions pertaining to ethics, physics, epistemology and theology are drawn upon in the Enneads to discuss crucial notions such as pleasure and happiness, providence and fate, matter and the role of sense perception, intuition and intellectual evidence in relation to the process of knowledge acquisition. By focusing on the meaning of these terms in Epicureanism, Plotinus deploys sophisticated methods of comparative analysis and argumentative procedures that ultimately lead him to approach certain aspects of Epicurus' philosophy as a benchmark for his own theories and to accept, reject or discredit the positions of authors of his own day. At the same time, these discussions reveal what aspects of Epicurean philosophy were still perceived to be of vital relevance in the third century AD.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Plotinus and Epicurus
• Subtitle: Matter, Perception, Pleasure
• Author: Angela Longo, Daniela Patrizia Taormina
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 254
• EAN: 9781107124219
• ISBN: 1107124212
• ID: 02983120
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 488 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 264 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. August 2016

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