PLOTINUS Ennead VI.8
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PLOTINUS Ennead VI.8

On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One

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  1. 501 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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PLOTINUS Ennead VI.8

On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One

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About this book

Ennead VI.8 gives us access to the living mind of a long dead sage as he tries to answer some of the most fundamental questions we in the modern world continue to ask: are we really free when most of the time we are overwhelmed by compulsions, addictions, and necessities, and how can we know that we are free? Can we trace this freedom through our own agency to the gods, to the Soul, Intellect, and the Good? How do we know that the world is meaningful and not simply the result of chance or randomness? Plotinus' On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One is a groundbreaking work that provides a new understanding of the importance and nature of free human agency. It articulates a creative idea of agency and radical freedom by showing how such terms as desire, will, self-dependence, and freedom in the human ethical sphere can be genuinely applied to Intellect and the One while preserving the radical inability of all metaphysical language to express anything about God or gods.

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Plotinus: 
Ennead
VI.8
152
Conclusion 
to 
Chapter 
1
e 
whole 
of 
this 
rst 
chapter, 
rst 
sets 
out 
the 
scope 
and 
goal 
of 
the 
inquiry, 
and 
then, 
starting 
from 
the 
experience 
of 
the 
painful 
perplexity 
of 
consciousness, 
caught 
between 
its 
apprehensive 
fear 
of 
being 
nothing 
at 
all, 
on 
the 
one 
hand, 
and 
its 
will 
that 
emerges 
even 
in 
this 
self-defeating 
anxiety, 
on 
the 
other, 
goes 
on 
to 
articulate 
the 
fuller 
meaning 
of 
what 
is 
in 
our 
power 
(
to 
eph’ 
hēmin
) 
and 
assimilates 
the 
notion 
of 
what 
is 
“voluntary” 
to 
this 
stronger 
epistemic 
understanding 
of 
“what 
is 
in 
our 
power.” 

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction to the Series
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction to the Treatise
  8. Note on the Greek Text
  9. Note on the Translations
  10. Synopsis
  11. Translation
  12. Commentary
  13. Chapter 1
  14. Chapter 2
  15. Chapter 3
  16. Chapter 4
  17. Chapter 5
  18. Chapter 6
  19. Chapter 7
  20. Chapter 8
  21. Chapter 9
  22. Chapter 10
  23. Chapter 11
  24. Chapter 12
  25. Chapter 13
  26. Chapter 14
  27. Chapter 15
  28. Chapter 16
  29. Chapter 17
  30. Chapter 18
  31. Chapter 19
  32. Chapter 20
  33. Chapter 21
  34. Glossary
  35. Select Bibliography
  36. Index of Ancient Authors
  37. Index of Names and Subjects
  38. Also Available from Parmenides