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Plotinus on What We Think We Are
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The Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus invites us to take part in his philosophizing when he encourages his readers to think about what they think they are, as living beings, human beings, as rational beings, ethical subjects and as philosophers. He is interested in what we say about ourselves in ordinary language and notices that such ordinary experience conflicts with what the Platonic tradition claims we (truly) are. This conflict does not lead him to turn away from the human terms and expressions, but impels him to take seriously what we say about ourselves and to explain it philosophically.
Wiebke-Marie Stock, (Universität Bonn, Germany; University of Notre Dame, USA) works on ancient philosophy with a focus on Plato and the Platonic tradition. Her publications include Plotinus. Ennead III 4. On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit (2020) and Theurgisches Denken. Zur "Kirchlichen Hierarchie" des Dionysius Areopagita (2008).
Preface
Introduction
1 Soul
2 “We”—self, I, person?
3 Methodology
4 Plan
1 Plotinus on the “we”—with, against and beyond Plato
2 Each individual one of us
1 Soul and composite being
2 Mine, yours, ours
3 Individuality
4 We living beings
3 We as ethical subject
1 Our proper activity
2 Masters of ourselves
3 We, the sage
4 The location of the we
1 The One and “we”
2 Our intellect
5 We as the center of consciousness
1 Inner consciousness
2 Unconscious to us
3 The daimôn and “we”
4 Consciousness
5 Memory
6 We are double
1 Who are we?
2 The god in us
3 We and the image of the soul
4 The passions and we
7 We philosophers
8 We are multiple
1 Soul and body
2 We perceivers
3 We are most of all there
4 We are multiple
5 We are double
6 Consciousness
7 We or the soul?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1 Soul
2 “We”—self, I, person?
3 Methodology
4 Plan
1 Plotinus on the “we”—with, against and beyond Plato
2 Each individual one of us
1 Soul and composite being
2 Mine, yours, ours
3 Individuality
4 We living beings
3 We as ethical subject
1 Our proper activity
2 Masters of ourselves
3 We, the sage
4 The location of the we
1 The One and “we”
2 Our intellect
5 We as the center of consciousness
1 Inner consciousness
2 Unconscious to us
3 The daimôn and “we”
4 Consciousness
5 Memory
6 We are double
1 Who are we?
2 The god in us
3 We and the image of the soul
4 The passions and we
7 We philosophers
8 We are multiple
1 Soul and body
2 We perceivers
3 We are most of all there
4 We are multiple
5 We are double
6 Consciousness
7 We or the soul?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
This book is of interest to academic institutions, libraries and scholars in the following fields: ancient philosophy, classics, and history of religion with a focus on Plato, the Platonic tradition, neoplatonism and especially in Plotinus. It also addresses topics of interest to philosophers, intellectual historians and general readers who are interested in the topics of self and consciousness.