The Connection between Neoplatonism and Plato's 'agrapha dogmata'

• Authors: Woszczyk A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The 'Enneads' contains a principle of plurality (matter-dyad) which can be viewed as a necessary condition of the constitution and gradation of beings. This principle is amenable to a new interpretation of Plotinus's philosophy in which emanation as a transition from what is the highest to what is the lowest, is no longer regarded as a gradual deterioration of the Unity to matter, or the absolute 'steresis'. On the contrary, the process that leads to the emergence of new hyposthases can be viewed as a result of a cooperation between the Unity and the matter-dyad in which every new ontic level of being can be identified as a new form of the Unity whose power is gradually dissipated and diminished until it is entirely used up, which permits the Matter-dyad to show its a preponderance.

Keywords

EN

AGRAPHA DOGMATA; PLATO; PLOTINUS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2(54)
• Pages: 53-66
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Woszczyk A.

• A. Woszczyk, Uniwersytet Slaski, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Bankowa 11, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

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05PLAAAA00431058