Selbstbewegung und Kreisbewegung. AutokinÄsis in Plotin anhand der Enn. 6, 9, 8 [9]

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In the Enneads the concept of self-movement appears in different places, but Plotinus does not examine it closely. He does not do so because of the possibility of attributing this activity â directly or not â to the Hen and to the Nous, as well as to the soul. Plotinus uses autokinÄsis to describe the passage from the Hen to the Nous, that is the self-reflection of the Nous. At the same time, the way the soul turns around to the Nous belongs indirectly to the autokinÄsis. Self-movement as âbeholding of Being and activityâ (Plotinus, Enn. 6, 2, 18 [43], 5â8) is related to the whole process of flowing from the Hen, thus it also describes the activity of the Hen. In this way Plotinus points out a difference between Plato and Aristotle concerning the activity of the first principle. Aristotle refuses a self-movement for God, whereas for Plato (especially in Laws x) the Nous and the soul are self-moving first principles. Plotinusâ solution has influenced medieval apophatic theology and provided an important basis for Novalisâ first-romanticism as well as for Hegelâs system.

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Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism

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