Plotinus

Revised and updated throughout, and includes a new chapter on badness, freedom, providence and responsibility. An ideal introduction to this major figure in Western philosophy, and essential reading for students of ancient philosophy and classics.

Eyjólfur K. Emilsson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Plotinus on Sense-Perception (1988), Plotinus on Intellect (2007), and (with Steven K. Strange) of a translation and commentary, Plotinus: Ennead VI.4 and VI.5: On the Presence of Being, Oneand the Same, Everywhere as a Whole (2015). He has published numerous articles on Plotinus and other ancient philosophers and translated Plato’s Republic and other Platonic dialogues into Icelandic.