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Original essays by leading scholars on Plotinus' philosophy of nature.
This book advances an understanding of Plotinus' views on the natural cosmos and their relevance to natural philosophy and the development of science. The contributors confront issues concerning the presence of scientific principles and conceptions in Plotinus' writing, and discuss the degree to which Plotinus' views and methodologies incorporate aspects of how modern thinkers interpret science as well as areas currently thought of as physics and biology. The essays recognize and embrace the richness, subtlety, and complexity of Plotinus' Neoplatonism as expressed in his Enneads, even while illustrating its pertinence to natural philosophy and the historical development of scientific thinking.
Preface
R. Baine Harris
Introduction
Michael F. Wagner
Plotinus and the Possibility of Natural Science
Ronald F. Hathaway
Plotinus and Biology
Anthony Preus
Plotinus Against Aristotle's Essentialism
Lloyd P. Gerson
Explanation and Nature in Enneads VI.7.1.-15
Sara L. Rappe
Providence: The Platonic Demiurge and Hellenistic Causality
Gary M. Gurtler
Freedom and Providence in Plotinus
Laura S. Westra
The Notion of Beauty in the Structure of the Universe: Pythagorean Influences
Aphrodite Alexandrakis
The One: Substance or Function?
Reiner Schurmann
Plotinus on the Origin of Matter
William J. Carroll
Plotinus' Set of Categories for the Kosmos Aisthetos
Christos Evangeliou
Sympathy: Stoic Materialism and the Platonic Soul
Gary M. Gurtler
Plotinus, Nature, and the Scientific Spirit
Michael F. Wagner
Index Propria
Index Locorum (Enneads)