The Role of διάνοια in Plotinus' Philosophy.
In this paper, I explore the centrality of διάνοια in Plotinus' philosophy. Plotinus says that the real "we" is found to be the subject of διάνοια and "upwards." This fundamental definition elicits several pressing questions. First, how is the subject of discursive reasoning related to the subject o...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Platonic Tradition Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 190 - 208 |
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2023
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