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Descubre un mundo infinito de historias

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Asger Ousager

As the most important philosophical work to emerge in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine, The Enneads has been subject to intense scrutiny for more than 2000 years. But the mystical and abstract nature of these treatises by Plotinus continues to resist easy elucidation. In this volume, the latest in the Aarhus Studies on Mediterranean Antiquity, Asger Ousager grapples with the great neo-Platonist's conception of the individual. Is the individual free or determined? Is the Plotinian God subject to any compulsion Himself, and with what consequences for our inner and outer freedom? And finally, what are the political and ethical implications of Plotinism?

Since Plotinus has traditionally been regarded as apolitical, it is the evidence that Ousager marshals for his political philosophy that forms the most intriguing part of this study. According to the author, what distinguishes Plotinus from Plato and Aristotle politically is his emphasis on natural authority, mutual cooperation and the immense potential of all people, even slaves. The volume concludes with a brief survey of archaeological evidence for the direct social and political impact of Plotinus' thought on his own age.

Aarhus Universitetsforlag

Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity

Plotinus on Selfhood, Freedom and Politics

David Frankfurter

Matthew Dillon

Panayiotis Andreou Christoforou

Simon Coleman

Isabel Köster

Matthew R. Anderson

Elisa Uusimäki

Amelia R. Brown

Sarah Midford

Naomi Koltun-Fromm

Ian Rutherford

Yana Tchekhanovets

Rebecca Sweetman

"Pilgrims in Place, Pilgrims in Motion: Sacred Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean" brings together interdisciplinary scholarship on the connected poles of pilgrimage: the sanctuaries being visited, and the journeys to get there. Contributions investigate different concepts of place, community, social tensions and expectations of pilgrim behaviour; long-term meanings of place as embodied in memory and topography; mobility, migration and placemaking; connectivity and its relationship to pilgrimage. Individual chapters discuss shrines, sanctuaries and sacred places as well as journeys and mobility across Greek, Roman and late antique contexts, framed as part of a key
debate within the study of pilgrimage, the central tension between place and motion.

Pilgrims in Place, Pilgrims in Motion: Sacred Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean

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