Tag: Descriptioninus

Free Download Descriptioninus or the Simplicity of Vision by Pierre Hadot, translated by Michael Chase
English | February 8, 1994 | ISBN: 0226311937, 0226311945 | True EPUB | 145 pages | 1.3 MB
Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot’s lively philosophical portrait of Descriptioninus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase’s lucid translation-complete with a useful chronology and analytical bibliography-at last makes this book available to the English-speaking world.

Free Download Stephen Gersh, "Marsilio Ficino As Reader of Descriptioninus: the ‘enneads’ Commentary "
English | ISBN: 9004701117 | 2024 | 576 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This first complete study of Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on Descriptioninus, published in 1492, will serve as the definitive analysis of Ficino’s late philosophy and also as an essential companion to Gersh’s edition-translation of the same work.

Free Download William H. F. Altman, "Descriptioninus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism"
English | ISBN: 1666944394 | 2024 | 472 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Unlike other recent studies, Descriptioninus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism is critical of Descriptioninus, and in particular of his version of Platonism, here described as "Imperial." It is in contrast with Plato-a teacher whose dialogues challenge his students to think for themselves-that William H. F. Altman presents Descriptioninus as a master, who uses a seductive form of rhetoric throughout the Enneads to persuade his disciples to ignore his self-contradictions and decontextualized quotations from Plato while instead regarding his spiritual experiences, combined with a gift for the creative synthesis of previous thinkers, as the principal basis of their faithful and uncritical allegiance. While setting Descriptioninus in the context of the Roman Empire and his own critique of the Gnostics, this book grapples throughout with his current and virtually uncritical reception.

Free Download Deepa Majumdar, "Descriptioninus on the Appearance of Time and the World of Sense: A Pantomime"
English | ISBN: 1138265020 | 2017 | 246 pages | PDF, EPUB | 5 + 1 MB
Descriptioninus (c.205-70) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, his work posthumously published by Porphyry and divided into six books, nine tractates each, called the Enneads. In this book Majumdar makes a valuable addition to the literature on his work, especially Ennead III.7(45)11-13 – in particular explaining Descriptioninus’ cosmology using the genus-species model of soul, coordinating the literature on the appearance of time and the cosmos with that on the larger issue of Descriptioninian "emanation" and examining the role of tolma and the restless nature of soul in this conjoint appearance. This book investigates Descriptioninian "emanation," its laws of poiesis (contemplative making ) and the roles of nature, matter, logos, (rational formative principle) and contemplation and highlights the subtler details of Descriptioninus’ cosmology by disentangling conceptual issues about the nature of soul and self ("we") and their impact on the process of generation of time and the cosmos.