Plotinus
Theology of Aristotle
Traditional attribution
Theology of Aristotle
Uthūlūjiyā Arisṭāṭālīs
Together with the Epistle on Divine Science and the Sayings of the Greek Sage, it forms the so-called "Arabic Plotinus". Attributed to Aristotle, it allowed the philosophers of Islam—al-Farabi, Avicenna—and, through the sixteenth-century Latin translation, some Renaissance thinkers, to reconcile Plato and Aristotle in a metaphysics of emanation from the One.
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Authorship note
Pseudepigraphic. An Arabic paraphrase of parts of Enneads IV–VI, translated in the ninth century by Ibn Naʿima al-Himsi and corrected by al-Kindi, which circulated as a work of Aristotle. The content comes from Plotinus, but the attribution is false and the text adapted.
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English
Plotinus
The Arabic Plotinus: A Philosophical Study of the «Theology of Aristotle»
The Conscious LibraryThe Arabic Plotinus: A Philosophical Study of the «Theology of Aristotle»
Duckworth, 2002
Estudio de Peter Adamson con traducción de pasajes.
Other works by Plotinus
- Enneads · 301
- Life of Plotinus (by Porphyry) · 301
- Ennead I.1 [53]: What is the living being, and what is man? · 268
- Ennead I.2 [19]: On virtues · 253
- Ennead I.3 [20]: On dialectic · 253
- Ennead I.4 [46]: On happiness (well-being) · 268
- Ennead I.5 [36]: Whether happiness increases with time · 263
- Ennead I.6 [1]: On beauty · 253
- Ennead I.7 [54]: On the primal good and the other goods · 268
- Ennead I.8 [51]: On what are and whence come evils · 268
- Ennead I.9 [16]: On going out of the body · 253
- Ennead II.1 [40]: On the cosmos (or on heaven) · 263
- Ennead II.2 [14]: On the movement of heaven · 253
- Ennead II.3 [52]: Whether the stars are causes · 268
- Ennead II.4 [12]: On matter (or on the two matters) · 253
- Ennead II.5 [25]: On what exists potentially and what actually · 263
- Ennead II.6 [17]: On quality and form (or on substance and quality) · 253
- Ennead II.7 [37]: On complete transfusion · 263
- Ennead II.8 [35]: On sight, or how distant objects appear small · 263
- Ennead II.9 [33]: Against the Gnostics · 263
- Ennead III.1 [3]: On fate · 253
- Ennead III.2 [47]: On providence, I · 268
- Ennead III.3 [48]: On providence, II · 268
- Ennead III.4 [15]: On our allotted guardian spirit · 253
- Ennead III.5 [50]: On love · 268
- Ennead III.6 [26]: On the impassibility of the bodiless · 263
- Ennead III.7 [45]: On eternity and time · 263
- Ennead III.8 [30]: On nature, contemplation and the One · 263
- Ennead III.9 [13]: Various considerations · 253
- Ennead IV.1 [21]: On the essence of the soul, I · 253
- Ennead IV.2 [4]: On the essence of the soul, II · 253
- Ennead IV.3 [27]: Problems of the soul, I · 263
- Ennead IV.4 [28]: Problems of the soul, II · 263
- Ennead IV.5 [29]: Problems of the soul, III, or on sight · 263
- Ennead IV.6 [41]: On sense-perception and memory · 263
- Ennead IV.7 [2]: On the immortality of the soul · 253
- Ennead IV.8 [6]: On the descent of the soul into bodies · 253
- Ennead IV.9 [8]: Whether all souls are one · 253
- Ennead V.1 [10]: On the three primary hypostases · 253
- Ennead V.2 [11]: On the origin and order of the beings after the First · 253
- Ennead V.3 [49]: On the knowing hypostases and that which is beyond · 268
- Ennead V.4 [7]: How what comes after the First derives from the First, and on the One · 253
- Ennead V.5 [32]: That the intelligibles are not outside the Intellect, and on the Good · 263
- Ennead V.6 [24]: That what is beyond being does not think · 263
- Ennead V.7 [18]: Whether there are Forms of individuals · 253
- Ennead V.8 [31]: On the intelligible beauty · 263
- Ennead V.9 [5]: On Intellect, the Forms and Being · 253
- Ennead VI.1 [42]: On the kinds of being, I · 263
- Ennead VI.2 [43]: On the kinds of being, II · 263
- Ennead VI.3 [44]: On the kinds of being, III · 263
- Ennead VI.4 [22]: On the presence of being, one and the same, everywhere as a whole, I · 263
- Ennead VI.5 [23]: On the presence of being, one and the same, everywhere as a whole, II · 263
- Ennead VI.6 [34]: On numbers · 263
- Ennead VI.7 [38]: How the multitude of the Forms came into being, and on the Good · 263
- Ennead VI.8 [39]: On free will and the will of the One · 263
- Ennead VI.9 [9]: On the Good or the One · 253
- Notes of the lectures (by Amelius, lost) · 260
- Eustochius' edition (lost)
Sources
- Adamson, Peter. The Arabic Plotinus: A Philosophical Study of the «Theology of Aristotle». Londres: Duckworth, 2002.
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