Book contents
- Plotinus and Epicurus
- Plotinus and Epicurus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Transliteration
- Introduction*
- Part I Historical overview
- Part II Common anti-Epicurean arguments in Plotinus
- Chapter 2 The mention of Epicurus in Plotinus' tr. 33 (Enn. II 9) in the context of the polemics between pagans and Christians in the second to third centuries AD
- Chapter 3 Epicureans and Gnostics in tr. 47 (Enn. III 2) 7.29–41
- Chapter 4 ‘Heavy birds’ in tr. 5 (Enn. V 9) 1.8
- Chapter 5 Plotinus, Epicurus and the problem of intellectual evidence
- Chapter 6 ‘What is known through sense perception is an image’. Plotinus' tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1.12–19
- Part III Plotinus' criticism of Epicurean doctrines
- Part IV Epicurean elements in Plotinus
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- Index of modern authors
- Index of main concepts
Chapter 6 - ‘What is known through sense perception is an image’. Plotinus' tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1.12–19
An anti-Epicurean argument?*
from Part II - Common anti-Epicurean arguments in Plotinus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2016
- Plotinus and Epicurus
- Plotinus and Epicurus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Transliteration
- Introduction*
- Part I Historical overview
- Part II Common anti-Epicurean arguments in Plotinus
- Chapter 2 The mention of Epicurus in Plotinus' tr. 33 (Enn. II 9) in the context of the polemics between pagans and Christians in the second to third centuries AD
- Chapter 3 Epicureans and Gnostics in tr. 47 (Enn. III 2) 7.29–41
- Chapter 4 ‘Heavy birds’ in tr. 5 (Enn. V 9) 1.8
- Chapter 5 Plotinus, Epicurus and the problem of intellectual evidence
- Chapter 6 ‘What is known through sense perception is an image’. Plotinus' tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1.12–19
- Part III Plotinus' criticism of Epicurean doctrines
- Part IV Epicurean elements in Plotinus
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- Index of modern authors
- Index of main concepts
- Type
- Chapter
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- Plotinus and EpicurusMatter, Perception, Pleasure, pp. 113 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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