Plotinus uses Ockham's razor against the Gnostics. An account of the basic truths and falsehoods of Gnosticism.

Оценка 4,5 (2) · 33,95 $ Against the Gnostics is a philosophical treatise written by Plotinus, a prominent philosopher of the ancient world. The book is a critique of Gnosticism, ...

Having spoken out against the Gnostics, Plotinus makes his first definite break with Platonic creationist cosmogony. The world was not created at all, if ...

Plotinus' attitude towards Gnosticism underwent a serious change after 263, during the discussion following the presentation of his paper in Vandoeuvres: see ...

Porphyry says (Life ch. 16. 11) that he gave the treatise the title Against the Gnostics (he is presumably also responsible for the titles of the other ...

Plotinus, at least in his texts against the Gnostics, portrayed God as a separate entity that human souls needed to go towards, whereas Gnostics believed that ... Gnosticism · Neoplatonist objections · References

27 мар. 2018 г. · Plotinus refutes the Gnostics' multiplication of intelligible realties and clarifies the structure of the intelligible world, which has only three hypostases.

20 янв. 2024 г. · For the Platonists, even the material world is essentially good. This is the reason Plotinus has a go at the gnostics. Plotinus and the whole of ... Plotinus's Philosophical Polemic Against Gnosticism - Reddit Did Plotinus disliked Christians? : r/Neoplatonism - Reddit Другие результаты с сайта www.reddit.com

1 дек. 2016 г. · Against the Gnostics is a polemical text. It aims to show the superiority of Plotinus' philosophy over that of his Gnostic rivals and poses ...

that we are touching upon a vital nerve of Plotinus' thought. The avowed purpose of the essay against the Gnostics is to oppose those who assert that the world ...