PLOTINUS Ennead I.8 on the Nature and Source of Evil: Translation With an Introduction and Commentary (The Enneads of Plotinus) - Softcover

Sheppard, Anne

9798988320128: PLOTINUS Ennead I.8 on the Nature and Source of Evil: Translation With an Introduction and Commentary (The Enneads of Plotinus)

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Verlag: Parmenides Publishing, 2025

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Ennead I.8 was written not long before Plotinus’ death in 270 AD, at a time when he was particularly concerned with ethical issues. The treatise’ primary purpose is to argue that evil is not intrinsic to the soul, but since Plotinus always considers ethical issues within a metaphysical framework, it includes an account of the ontological status of matter. Plotinus does his best to preserve a belief in the dependence of all things on a single, supremely good First Principle while admitting that there is evil in the world. He offers a subtle account of the origin of evil in the soul as caused not by either the soul or matter on its own but by the combination of the two. Sheppard shows how Plotinus is responding to ideas found in Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Middle Platonism as well as to the challenge presented by Gnosticism, and argues that the views expressed in I.8 are not inconsistent with what Plotinus has to say about matter and its generation elsewhere. She further considers the criticisms of Plotinus’ views put forward by Proclus and concludes that, despite its weaknesses, Plotinus’ account remains an ingenious attempt to defend monism and the essential goodness of the soul while recognizing the existence of evils.

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Anne Sheppard is Professor Emerita of Ancient Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London. She previously taught Philosophy at Oxford, then Classics at the University of Durham and Philosophy at the Open University before joining the Classics Department at Royal Holloway in 1989. Her publications include Studies on the 5th and 6th essays of Proclus’ Commentary on the Republic (1980), Aesthetics. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (1987), Greek and Roman Aesthetics (with Oleg Bychkov, 2010) and The Poetics of Phantasia. Imagination in Ancient Aesthetics (2014).

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“Sheppard provides a very readable and reliable translation, with a useful Introduction and Commentary, of one of Plotinus' most interesting and original works, Ennead I.8, on the problem of evil. She gives also the non-specialist reader access to a text much debated both in Late Antiquity and today."

—Dominic O'Meara

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

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