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Plotinus on the Delphic maxim: Knowing and being one's true selfIn Ole Jakob Filtvedt & Jens Schröter (eds.), Know yourself: echoes and interpretations of the Delphic maxim in ancient Judaism, Christianity, and philosophy, De Gruyter. 2023.
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5Ennead VI.4 and VI.5: on the presence of being, one and the same, everywhere as a wholeParmenides Publishing. 2015.Ennead VI.4-5, originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus' most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intelligible and the sensible realms, addressing and coalescing two central issues in Platonism: the nature of the soul-body relationship and the nature of participation. Its main question is, How can soul animate bodies without sharing their extension? The treatise seems to have had considerable impact: it is much reflected in Porphyry's important work…Read more
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26Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 40: Essays in Memory of Michael Frede (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback
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31Plotinus on intellectOxford University Press. 2007.Plotinus (205-269 AD) led the philosophical movement of Neoplatonism, which reinterpreted Plato's thought later in antiquity and went on to become a dominant force in the history of ideas. Emilsson's in-depth study of Plotinus' central doctrine of Intellect caters for the increasing interest in Plotinus with philosophical clarity and rigor
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On happiness and timeIn Øyvind Rabbås, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Hallvard Fossheim & Miira Tuominen (eds.), The Quest for the Good Life: Ancient Philosophers on Happiness, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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36Did Plato See Through It All?International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 17 (2): 265-270. 2023.
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39An Interview with Professor E.K. EmilssonInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 11 (2): 247-252. 2017.
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32Sense-Perception, Reasoning and Forms in PlotinusPhronesis 67 (1): 99-130. 2021.This paper discusses the role of innate concepts derived from Intellect in Plotinus’ account of cognition of the sensible realm. Several passages have been claimed as evidence for such innateness, but an analysis of them shows that they do not support this claim. It is tentatively suggested that, nevertheless, some very general concepts such as difference, sameness and being are integral to the faculty of sense and play a crucial role in concept formation. It is further argued that reasoning abo…Read more
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19The Quest for the Good Life: Ancient Philosophers on Happiness (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2015.How should I live? How can I be happy? What is happiness, really? These are perennial questions, which in recent times have become the subject of diverse kinds of academic research. Ancient philosophers placed happiness at the centre of their thought, and we can trace the topic through nearly a millennium. While the centrality of the notion of happiness in ancient ethics is well known, this book is unique in that it focuses directly on this notion, as it appears in the ancient texts. Fourteen pa…Read more
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12Kommentar til Kallikles-episoden: Gorgias 481b–522eNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 42 (1-2): 80-150. 2007.
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19The Cartesian Semantics of the Port Royal Logic, written by John N. MartinInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 14 (2): 216-217. 2020.
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Plotinus’ doctrine of badness as matter in Ennead I.8 [51]In Panagiotis G. Pavlos, Lars Fredrik Janby, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson & Torstein Theodor Tollefsen (eds.), Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity, Taylor & Francis. 2019.
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13Platonic Soul-Body Dualism in the Early Centuries of the Empire to Plotinus1In Wolfgang Haase (ed.), Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. Philosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 5331-5362. 1987.
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900IntroductionIn Panagiotis G. Pavlos, Lars Fredrik Janby, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson & Torstein Theodor Tollefsen (eds.), Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity, Taylor & Francis. pp. 1-13. 2019.This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores, inter alia, the strategy employed by Augustine in using Plato as a pseudo-prophet against later Platonists and explores Eusebius’ reception of Porphyry’s daemonology. It examines Plotinus’ claim that matter is absolute badness and focuses on Maximus the Confessor’s doctrine of creation and asks whether one may detect any influence on Maximus from Philoponus. The book a…Read more
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15Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity (edited book)Taylor & Francis. 2019.Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as pagan competitors and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith. The chapters are united in their goal to explore transformations that took place in the reception and interaction process between Platonism and Christianity in this period. The contributions in this volume explore the reception of Platonic material in Christian thought…Read more
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15Plotinus: Ennead I,1. What is the Living Thing? What is Man?, edited by O’Daly, GInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 13 (1): 93-95. 2019.
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1984Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity (edited book)Routledge. 2019.Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith. The chapters are united in their goal to explore transformations that took place in the reception and interaction process between Platonism and Christianity in this period. The contributions in this volume explore the reception of Platonic material in Christian though…Read more
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3PlotinusRoutledge. 2005.Plotinus was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of Plotinus’ philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time. Beginning with a chapter-length overview of Plotinus’ life and works which also assesses the Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic traditions that influenced him, Emilsson goes on to address key to…Read more
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20Plotinus on Sense-Perception: A Philosophical StudyCambridge University Press. 1988.This book is a philosophical analysis of Plotinus' views on sense-perception. It aims to show how his thoughts were both original and a development of the ideas of his predecessors, in particular those of Plato, Aristotle and the Peripatetics. Special attention is paid to Plotinus' dualism with respect to soul and body and its implications for his views on the senses. The author combines a historical approach to his subject, setting Plotinus' thought in the context of thinkers who preceded and s…Read more
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36Aristotle and Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity: Interpretations of the De AnimaPhilosophical Review 107 (3): 486. 1998.The late ancient commentators on Aristotle, most of them Platonists, have been gradually re-emerging on the philosophical and scholarly horizon during the last two or three decades. Their reappearance is not likely to cause any major transformations of the scene, but they are interesting enough in themselves to deserve careful study and they have been influential in the past to the extent that proper understanding of their work sheds light on the subsequent history of the interpretation of Arist…Read more
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9PlotinusRoutledge. 2005.Plotinus was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of Plotinus’ philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time. Beginning with a chapter-length overview of Plotinus’ life and works which also assesses the Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic traditions that influenced him, Emilsson goes on to address key to…Read more
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Plotinus on Sense-Perception [Microform] a Philosophical and Historical Study. --University Microfilms International. 1984.The thesis is a philosophical and historical study of Plotinus' views on sense-perception. Chapter I contains an exposition of Plotinus' metaphysics. Chapter II deals with Plotinus' views on man and the soul in general. In Chapter III Plotinus' views on visual transmission are discussed. It is argued that his doctrine of visual transmission, which Plotinus describes in terms of sympatheia, is to be regarded as a synthesis of Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic elements. Like other ancient philosoph…Read more
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15Commentary on DillonProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 3 (1): 359-363. 1987.
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3Plotinus on Happiness and TimeIn Michael Frede, James V. Allen, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Wolfgang-Rainer Mann & Benjamin Morison (eds.), Oxford studies in ancient philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 339. 2011.