Plotinus on Love : an Introduction to His Metaphysics Through the Concept of Eros.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Orders and Titles of the Treatises of the Enneads -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Derivation of All Reality from the One as Erotic Procession -- Chapter 1 The Derivation of the Many from the One The Problem and Its Plotinian Solution -- 1 Necessity of Deriving the Many from the One, and the Uniqueness of the Principle -- 2 The Ineffability of the One -- 3 Modality of the Derivation of the Many from the One: The Principle of Double Activity -- 4 The Status of the Hypostases: Continuity and Discontinuity in Plotinus' Metaphysics -- Chapter 2 The Derivation of All Reality from the One as Erotic Procession -- 1 Henologic Eros: The One, Perfect Erotic Self-identity and Source of All Love -- 1.1 The One: Beloved, Love, and Love of Itself -- 1.2 Superabundance and Its Modality: The One Gives What It Does Not Have33 -- 2 Noetic Eros: Intellect as the Noetic Replica of the Unity and Love of the One -- 3 Psychic Eros: Soul as the Discursive Replica of the Unity and Love of Intellect and Informing Principle of the Sensible Universe -- 4 Hyletic Eros: Matter as the Last Stage of Derivation, Inability of Reversion, and Evil -- 4.1 The Question of the Generation of Matter -- 4.2 The Nature and Eros of Matter and Its Role in the Sensible Cosmos -- 4.3 Matter as Evil -- Part 2 The Return of the Soul to the One as Erotic Ascent -- Chapter 3 The Nature and Variety of Love in the Soul: A Guided Tour through Enneads iii.5 [50] On Eros -- 1 Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato -- 2 Enneads iii.5 [50] 1.10-65: Eros as an Affection of the Soul -- Classification of Eros -- 3 Enneads iii.5 [50] 2.1-9.57: Identification of the Mythical Entities -- 4 The Substantiality of Eros: Observations on Some Passages of Enneads iii.5 [50].

Chapter 4 The One as the Supremely Loved, or the Universal Final Cause -- 1 Desire and Its Relation to Goodness -- 2 The Good as the Universal Final Cause -- 3 On the Necessity of the One as both the Principle and the End of All Reality -- Chapter 5 The Return of the Soul to the One as Erotic Ascent: Prolegomena to the Journey -- 1 Preconditions of the Ascent: Attunement and Affinity with the Beloved -- 1.1 First Precondition of the Ascent: Attunement, or the Infinite Love by Which the Soul Is to Love the One Qua Good -- 1.2 Second Precondition of the Ascent: Affinity, or the Kinship between the Soul and the One -- 2 The Subject of the Ascent: The Individual Soul as Bearer of the Love for the One -- 3 The Terminology of Ascent and the Role of the One in the Ascent -- 4 Eros as the Fundamental Force Regulating All Movement of Ascent to the One Contrasted with Hypostatic Eros and Eros as a Method of Ascent -- 5 Four Features Common to All the Stages of the Ascent: Subtraction, Implication of Lower Stages, Intensification of Love, Non-reciprocal Participation -- Chapter 6 The Return of the Soul to the One as Erotic Ascent: The Stages of the Journey -- 1 Ascent to Soul: Purification -- 2 Ascent to Intellect: Noetic Reintegration -- 2.1 A Note on Ethics and Dialectic in the Context of the Ascent -- 3 Ascent to the One: Union -- 3.1 The Permanence of the Individual Soul in Union -- 3.2 The Permanence of the Love of the Individual Soul in Union -- Conclusion -- 1 A Summary Account of the Results of This Study -- 2 Some Open Questions -- Appendix Principles of Plotinian Metaphysics Introduced in This Study -- 1 Plotinus -- Complete Works -- Individual Treatises (titles are from armstrong) -- 2 Pre-modern Authors -- 3 Works Cited: Full List -- Bibliography -- 1 Plotinus -- Complete Works -- Individual Treatises (titles are from armstrong).

2 Pre-modern Authors -- 3 Works Cited: Full List -- Indices -- Index Locorum -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects.

In Plotinus on Love, Alberto Bertozzi argues that love is the origin, culmination, and regulative force of the double movement that characterizes Plotinus' metaphysics: the derivation of all reality from the One and the return of the soul to it.

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