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Enneads (Book on Beauty)

Penguin Classics · 1991
ISBN-10: 014044520X

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Plotinus's treatise on beauty from the Enneads, the cornerstone of Neoplatonic aesthetics.

Book details

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Publication date
1991
Edition
Abridged ed. (MacKenna / Dillon)
Language
English
Print length
688
ISBN-10
014044520X
Item weight
472 lbs
Dimensions
12.9 × 3 × 19.6 in

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'On Beauty' (Ennead I.6) is among Plotinus's most important texts, tracing beauty to the presence of Form (eidos) in matter and to the soul's ascent toward the One. It profoundly shaped Christian and Islamic aesthetic thought and later Romanticism.

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Publisher: Penguin Classics | Published: 1991 | Edition: Abridged ed. (MacKenna / Dillon) | Language: English | Pages: 688 | ISBN-10: 014044520X | ISBN-13: 978-0140445206

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