The Nature of Being in Plato and Plotinus
Abstract
In an age when those who would be known as philosophers are willing to judge a man's achievement as objectively as possible and evaluate his ideas with an open mind, it is not surprising that Plotinus, who perhaps more than any other philosopher has suffered from a general intellectualistic prejudice, should at last receive the recognition the cogency, clarity, and persuasiveness of his system warrant. For centuries he was but reluctantly, if at all, admitted to the rank of a philosopher for the very reason that his mysticism was looked upon as an evasion rather than a philosophical answer to the problems he sought to solve. Today we are more willing to admit the divergent forms that may clothe even the profoundest thought, and recognize that no one frame or pattern can be prescribed by which a system automatically fulfills the requirements of a genuine philosophy.
Subject Area
Philosophy|Ancient history|Classical literature
Recommended Citation
Pytel, Sophia A, "The Nature of Being in Plato and Plotinus" (1947). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28508766.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28508766
