Plotinus

Plotinus (kutoka Kigiriki Πλωτῖνος, Plootinos; Lycopolis, Misri 204/5 hivi – Campania, Italia, 270 BK) alikuwa mmojawapo kati ya wanafalsafa muhimu zaidi wa Ugiriki wa Kale.

Kama mwalimu wake, Ammonius Saccas, alifuata mapokeo ya Plato.^[1] Kwa sababu hiyo, wanahistoria wa karne ya 19 walitunga jina Uplato Mpya^[1] kwa falsafa yake iliathiri sana karne za mwisho za Roma ya Kale upande wa Wapagani na wa Wakristo vilevile, halafu Gnosi, falsafa ya Kiislamu n.k.

Katifa falsafa yake mambo makuu ni matatu: Umoja, Akili na Roho.^[2]

Maandishi yake kwa Kigiriki

• Émile Bréhier, Plotin: Ennéades (with French translation), Collection Budé, 1924–1938.
• Paul Henry and Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer (eds.), Editio maior (3 volumes), Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1951–1973.
• Paul Henry and Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer (eds.), Editio minor, Oxford, Oxford Classical Text, 1964–1982.

Tafsiri za Kiingereza

• Plotinus. The Enneads (translated by Stephen MacKenna), London, Medici Society, 1917–1930.
• A. H. Armstrong, Plotinus. Enneads (with Greek text), Loeb Classical Library, 7 vol., 1966–1988.
• Thomas Taylor, Collected Writings of Plotinus, Frome, Prometheus Trust, 1994. ISBN 1-898910-02-2 (contains approximately half of the Enneads)

Msamiati

• J. H. Sleeman and G. Pollet, Lexicon Plotinianum, Leiden, 1980.
• Roberto Radice (ed.), Lexicon II: Plotinus, Milan, Biblia, 2004. (Electronic edition by Roberto Bombacigno)

Maisha ya Plotinus yalivyoandikwa na Porfiri

• Porphyry, "On the Life of Plotinus and the Arrangement of his Works" in Mark Edwards (ed.), Neoplatonic Saints: The Lives of Plotinus and Proclus by their Students, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2000.

Mikusanyo ya sehemu zilizochaguliwa na kufafanuliwa

• Kevin Corrigan, Reading Plotinus: A Practical Introduction to Neoplatonism, West Lafayette, Purdue University Press, 2005.
• John M. Dillon and Lloyd P. Gerson, Neoplatonic Philosophy: Introductory Readings, Hackett, 2004.

Mwongozo wa awali

• Kevin Corrigan, Reading Plotinus. A Practical Introduction to Neoplatonism, Purdue University Press, 1995.
• Lloyd P. Gerson, Plotinus, New York, Routledge, 1994.
• LLoyd P. Gerson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus, Cambridge, 1996.
• Dominic J. O'Meara, Plotinus. An Introduction to the Enneads, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993. (Reprinted 2005)
• John M. Rist, Plotinus. The Road to Reality, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Vitabu bora vya ufafanuzi

• Cinzia Arruzza, Plotinus: Ennead II.5, On What Is Potentially and What Actually, The Enneads of Plotinus Series edited by John M. Dillon and Andrew Smith, Parmenides Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-930972-63-6
• Michael Atkinson, Plotinus: Ennead V.1, On the Three Principal Hypostases, Oxford, 1983.
• Kevin Corrigan, Plotinus' Theory of Matter-Evil: Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander of Aphrodisias (II.4, II.5, III.6, I.8), Leiden, 1996.
• John N. Deck, Nature, Contemplation and the One: A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus, University of Toronto Press, 1967; Paul Brunton Philosophical Foundation, 1991.
• John M. Dillon, H.J. Blumenthal, Plotinus: Ennead IV.3-4.29, "Problems Concerning the Soul, The Enneads of Plotinus Series edited by John M. Dillon and Andrew Smith, Parmenides Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-930972-89-6
• Eyjólfur K. Emilsson, Steven K. Strange, Plotinus: Ennead VI.4 & VI.5: On the Presence of Being, One and the Same, Everywhere as a Whole, The Enneads of Plotinus Series edited by John M. Dillon and Andrew Smith, Parmenides Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-930972-34-6
• Barrie Fleet, Plotinus: Ennead III.6, On the Impassivity of the Bodiless, Oxford, 1995.
• Barrie Fleet, Plotinus: Ennead IV.8, On the Descent of the Soul into Bodies, The Enneads of Plotinus Series edited by John M. Dillon and Andrew Smith, Parmenides Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-1-930972-77-3
• Lloyd P. Gerson, Plotinus: Ennead V.5, That the Intelligibles are not External to the Intellect, and on the Good, The Enneads of Plotinus Series edited by John M. Dillon and Andrew Smith, Parmenides Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-930972-85-8
• Gary M. Gurtler, SJ, Plotinus: Ennead IV.4.30-45 & IV.5, "Problems Concerning the Soul, The Enneads of Plotinus Series edited by John M. Dillon and Andrew Smith, Parmenides Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-930972-69-8
• W. Helleman-Elgersma, Soul-Sisters. A Commentary on Enneads IV, 3 (27), 1–8 of Plotinus, Amsterdam, 1980.
• James Luchte, Early Greek Thought: Before the Dawn. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-0567353313.
• Kieran McGroarty, Plotinus on Eudaimonia: A Commentary on Ennead I.4, Oxford, 2006.
• P. A. Meijer, Plotinus on the Good or the One (VI.9), Amsterdam, 1992.
• H. Oosthout, Modes of Knowledge and the Transcendental: An Introduction to Plotinus Ennead V.3, Amsterdam, 1991.
• J. Wilberding, Plotinus' Cosmology. A study of Ennead II. 1 (40), Oxford, 2006.
• A. M. Wolters, Plotinus on Eros (eNN. III.5), Amsterdam, 1972.

Vitabu vya jumla juu ya Uplato Mpya

• Robert M. Berchman, From Philo to Origen: Middle Platonism in Transition, Chico, Scholars Press, 1984.
• Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy: Vol. 1, Part 2. ISBN 0-385-00210-6
• P. Merlan, "Greek Philosophy from Plato to Plotinus" in A. H. Armstrong (ed.), The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge, 1967. ISBN 0-521-04054-X
• Pauliina Remes, Neoplatonism (Ancient Philosophies), University of California Press, 2008.
• Thomas Taylor, The fragments that remain of the lost writings of Proclus, surnamed the Platonic successor, London, 1825. (Selene Books reprint edition, 1987. ISBN 0-933601-11-5)
• Richard T. Wallis, Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, University of Oklahoma, 1984. ISBN 0-7914-1337-3 and ISBN 0-7914-1338-1

Vinginevyo

• R. B. Harris (ed.), Neoplatonism and Indian Thought, Albany, 1982.
• Giannis Stamatellos, Plotinus and the Presocratics. A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus' Enneads, Albany, 2008.
• N. Joseph Torchia, Plotinus, Tolma, and the Descent of Being, New York, Peter Lang, 1993. ISBN 0-8204-1768-8
• Antonia Tripolitis, The Doctrine of the Soul in the thought of Plotinus and Origen, Libra Publishers, 1978.
• M. F. Wagner (ed.), Neoplatonism and Nature. Studies in Plotinus' Enneads, Albany, 2002.

Wikimedia Commons ina media kuhusu:

Plotinus

• Works by Plotinus katika Project Gutenberg

Enneads

• Greek original Ilihifadhiwa 6 Oktoba 2007 kwenye Wayback Machine. (page scans of Adolf Kirchhoff's 1856 Teubner edition) with English (complete) and French (partial) translations;

Tafsiri za Kiingereza

• The Internet Classics Archive of MIT The Six Enneads Ilihifadhiwa 22 Desemba 2008 kwenye Wayback Machine., translated into English by Stephen MacKenna and B.S. Page.
• On the Intelligible Beauty, translated by Thomas Taylor Ennead V viii Ilihifadhiwa 28 Agosti 2017 kwenye Wayback Machine.(see also the Catalog of other books which include Porphyry, Plotinus' biographer - TTS Catalog Ilihifadhiwa 19 Januari 2017 kwenye Wayback Machine.).
• Philosophy Archive: An Essay on the Beautiful Ilihifadhiwa 15 Julai 2011 kwenye Wayback Machine., translated into English by Thomas Taylor in 1917
• On the First Good and the Other Goods, Ennead 1.7 Translated by Eric S. Fallick, 2011
• On Dialectic, Ennead 1.3 Translated by Eric S. Fallick, 2015

Bibliografia

• In English, by Richard Dufour.
• In French Ilihifadhiwa 20 Julai 2011 kwenye Wayback Machine. by Pierre Thillet.
• Plotinus' Criticism of Aristotle's Categories (Enneads VI, 1-3) with an annotated bibliography

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