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Chapter III. Plotinus and abstraction

Raoul Mortley, Bond University

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This is an electronic version of Chapter III. Plotinus and abstraction from the book:

Mortley, Raoul (1986) From Word to Silence, II. The way of negation, Christian and Greek. (Theophaneia Bd 31), Hanstein : Bonn.

Abstract

[Chapter Contents]: The ineffable One, 46; abstraction and negative descriptions, 47; imaginative negation, 49; time and eternity, 50; aphairesis in Plotinus, 52; self-developing accretions, 55; abstraction and privation, 57; the desire of thought, 59; the procedure of intelligence, 60.

Suggested Citation

Raoul Mortley. "Chapter III. Plotinus and abstraction" From Word to Silence, 2. The Way of Negation, Christian and Greek (1986).
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/raoul_mortley/11



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