...James Wilberding Giannis Stamatellos, Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus' “Enneads.” Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. xi + 270 pp. Cornell University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS Lynne Rudder Baker, The Metaphysics...

..., Vol. 111, No. 2 (April 2002) Sara Rappe, Reading Neoplatonism: Nondiscursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 266. Sara Rappe has given us a stimulating book full of interesting suggestions con- cerning...

...C. C. W. Taylor Cooper John M. , Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2012 . xiv+442. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 The project of this impressive work is the exploration...

..., beginning with Plotinus in the third century AD and extending through figures such as Iamblichus and Proclus to Damascius and Simplicius in the sixth century AD. Her book carefully presents earlier ways of thinking about freedom and responsibility that shape Neoplatonic ideas, lucidly explains...

... Stamatellos, Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus’ “Enneads.” Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. xi + 270 pp. Plotinus obviously read and thought about Plato a great deal. Yet his student Porphyry, in his Life of Plotinus, took pains to emphasize that his...

... BOOK REVIEWS Giannis Stamatellos, Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus’ “Enneads.” Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. xi + 270 pp. Plotinus obviously read and thought about Plato a great deal. Yet his student Porphyry, in his Life of Plotinus...

... BOOK REVIEWS Giannis Stamatellos, Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus’ “Enneads.” Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. xi + 270 pp. Plotinus obviously read and thought about Plato a great deal. Yet his student Porphyry, in his Life of Plotinus...

... BOOK REVIEWS Giannis Stamatellos, Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus’ “Enneads.” Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. xi + 270 pp. Plotinus obviously read and thought about Plato a great deal. Yet his student Porphyry, in his Life of Plotinus...

... BOOK REVIEWS Giannis Stamatellos, Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus’ “Enneads.” Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. xi + 270 pp. Plotinus obviously read and thought about Plato a great deal. Yet his student Porphyry, in his Life of Plotinus...

... BOOK REVIEWS Giannis Stamatellos, Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus’ “Enneads.” Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. xi + 270 pp. Plotinus obviously read and thought about Plato a great deal. Yet his student Porphyry, in his Life of Plotinus...

...G. Fay Edwards References Adamson P. Forthcoming . “ One of a Kind: Unique Instantiation in Plotinus and Porphyry .” In Universals in Ancient Philosophy , ed. Chiaradonna R. and Galluzzo G. Edizioni della Scuola Normale . Malcolm J. 1991 . Plato...

... provided not merely a method but also much of the metaphysical content of Descartes’s thought. In order to un- derstand the story, we must go back to Plotinus, whose writings in turn 438 BOOK REWWS exerted an influence on Augustine...

... appealing to virtue. In “Plotinus, Ennead 1.4 as Critique of Earlier Eudaimonism,” the last paper concerned with exegesis of ancient philosophers, A. A. Long succeeds in showing that Plotinus knowledgeably criticizes earlier eudaimonists, especially Aristotelians, Stoics, and even Epicureans...

.... Thomas Baldwin, 147 -70. London: Routledge. Nadeau, Robert, and Menas Kafatos. 1999 . The Non-local Universe: The New Physics and Matters of the Mind . Oxford: Oxford University Press. O'Meara, Dominic J. 1996 . “The Hierarchical Ordering of Reality in Plotinus.” In The Cambridge Companion...

... of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus reviewed by C. C. W. Taylor          667 Bruxvoort Lipscomb, Benjamin J., and James Krueger, eds. , Kant's Moral Metaphysics reviewed by Anja Jauernig          651 Brock, Gillian , Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan...

... + 456 pp. Spisak, Art L. 2007. Martial: A Social Guide. London: Duckworth. v + 151 pp. Stamatellos, Giannis. 2007. Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus’ Enneads. SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York...

.... Robert F. Barsky. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 295. Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome. By Margaret R. Miles. Malden: Blackwell, 1999. Pp. xii, 214. The Limits ofDeatli.By Joanne Morra, Mark...

... postulated by Plotinus. Closer to Averroes in time, culture, and intention was Avicenna (again, this name is a Latinization, in this case of Ibn Sīnā). He held that the so called “active intellect” (AI) described by Aristotle in the brief and inscrutable chapter 3.5 of On the Soul is a single transcendent...

.... TRAVIS BUTLER Iowa State University The Philosophical Review, Vol. 111, No. 2 (April 2002) Sara Rappe, Reading Neoplatonism: Nondiscursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 266. Sara Rappe has...

... and Early Medieval Philosophy (Armstrong 1967) Philip Merlan treated the period between Aristotle and Plotinus as the background from which Neoplatonism developed. Study of Hellenistic philos- ophy was already reviving then; but we have had to wait till now for the period to be treated in the series...