"To Try to Bring the Divine in Us Back Up to the Divine in the All": The Gnostic Background of Plotinus's Last Words
Controversy has long surrounded Plotinus's dying words to his disciple Eustochius, as reported by Porphyry in his Vita Plotini. This paper focuses not on the philological difficulties of his last words, but their philosophical significance. First, it argues that these words are in fact intellig...
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| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
[2017]
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 561-580 |
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Porphyrius 233-301, Vita Plotini
/ Plotinus 205-270
/ Last words
/ Valentinianism
/ Platonism
/ Deification
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BF Gnosticism TD Late Antiquity VA Philosophy |
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