Ostatnie dni Plotyna: pandemia i filozofia

• Authors: Mateusz Stróżyński

Title variants

EN

Plotinus’ last days: pandemic and philosophy

Abstracts

EN

The traditional view of the cause of Plotinus’ death was leprosy. The analysis of the biographical sources, however, point to another hypothesis, that of „Cyprian’s plague”. The last months of Plotinus life and work coincided with the end of this great ancient pandemic and he produced four treatises, focused primarily on ethical problems. The last treatise, On the primal Good (1.7) is a short and concentrated meditation on the First Principle and the soul’s ascent to it.

Keywords

EN

Plotinus; Cyprian’s plague; pandemic; death; Porphyry; Firmicus Maternus; the Enneads; the Good

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 285-301

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Mateusz Stróżyński

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

• https://orcid.org/0000000218818965

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/sppgl.2021.XXXI.1.20

Biblioteka Nauki

1806847