[lit-ideas] Neo-Plotinism: Old and New
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:43:22 EST
In a message dated 11/16/2004 7:00:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I once wrote a great poem that started:
Now old Plotinus
he thought it a minus
whatever was greater than one.
----
Right.
M. Chase may be able to tell us if "Plotinus", as qua proper name, involves,
as it seems to me, a suffix, '-inos'. In that case, there must be a variant
of the name, "Ploto"?
Cheers,
JL
--- A heap of useless and mostly unintelligible jargon, not of his own
[sc. Berkeley's] but of the Plotinists. (J. S. Mill)
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"Plotinian"
[f. L. <Ntnus, a. Gr. , proper name.]
Of or pertaining to Plotinus (A.D. c204-270), the most noted philosopher of
the Neo-Platonic school, the doctrines of which he taught at Rome. So
<NOtinic, <NOtinical adjs., in same sense; Plotinism, the system or teaching
of
Plotinus; Plotinist, a follower of Plotinus; Plotinize v. intr., to imitate,
or philosophize in the manner of, Plotinus.
1678 CUDWORTH Intell. Syst. 4 It must needs fall under one or other of
those two General Heads in the Plotinical Distribution last mentioned. Ibid.
152
Which Plotinick Doctrine, may well pass for a Commentary upon Empedocles.
1791 W. ENFIELD Hist. Philos. II. III. ii. 69 We shall trace the progress
of
the Plotinian, or Eclectic, school. 1864 WEBSTER, Plotinist. 1871 J. S.
MILL in Fortn. Rev. X. 524 A heap of useless and mostly unintelligible
jargon,
not of his own [sc. Berkeley's] but of the Plotinists. 1879 MCCLINTOCK &
STRONG Encycl. Bibl. Lit. VIII. 296/2 Creuzer condenses his summary of the
Plotinian doctrine into three theses. 1882-3 Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl.
II.
1854 They Plotinized even more than they Platonized in their religious
philosophy. 1906 W. M. MACINTYRE in Expositor Feb. 162 According to the
Plotinist,
mental prayer..has this office committed to it, to elevate the sense-life into
the life of reason. 1969 T. F. TORRANCE Theol. Sci. i. 18 This was the
Augustinian doctrine of the sacramental universe, combining Plotinian and
Ptolemaic
notions in a â??Christianâ?? cosmology.
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