Plotinus

O’Meara, Dominic J.

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“…Here we fĳind studies by Schwyzer (1951), Schiavone (1952), Bonetti (1971), Tigerstedt (1974), Matton (1992), O'Meara (1992O'Meara ( , 1993, Horn (2010) and others, who examine the reception of Plotinus' Enneads in this period.3 I shall use their work as one point of departure, observing that these scholars have failed to identify and examine one crucial methodological concept employed on Plotinus' texts, namely the concept of a 'system of philosophy', which was invented by 18th-century German historians, Brucker foremost among them.…”

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“…It would certainly be wide of the mark to think that Zeller's interpretative scheme remains unchallenged among Plotinus scholars.139 However, Zeller's history of philosophy is still widely circulated and its interpretative scheme has featured in prominent 20th-century expositions of Plotinus' philosophy, for which reason it would also be untrue to claim that its 136) For the sensory world, see Zeller (1919-23 O'Meara (1993), and Dillon and Gerson (2004), do not use an exposition of The One, Intellect and Soul as a starting point in their accounts of Plotinus' philosophy. most fundamental hermeneutic tool, the system concept, has lost its currency today.140 Brucker's magical spell, the 'system', still plays its tricks on modern scholars, though its efffĳicaciousness may be diminishing.…”

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“…3) Schwyzer (1951) cols. 471-592; Schiavone (1952a) 45-76;Schiavone (1952b) 97-108;Bonetti (1971) 487-511;Tigerstedt (1974); O'Meara (1992) 58-60;O'Meara (1993) 111-119;Horn (2010) 137-152. See also the inventory in O'Brien (1982) 143-186.…”

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Changing Interpretations of Plotinus: The 18th-Century Introduction of the Concept of a ‘System of Philosophy’

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This article critically explores the history and nature of a hermeneutic assumption which frequently guided interpretations of Plotinus from the 18th century onwards, namely that Plotinus advanced a system of philosophy. It is argued that this assumption was introduced relatively late, in the 18th and 19th centuries, and that it was primarily made possible by Brucker’s methodology for the history of philosophy, dating from the 1740s, to which the concept of a ‘system of philosophy’ was essential. It is observed that the concept is absent from Ficino’s commentary from the 15th century, and that it remained absent in interpretations produced between the 15th and 18th centuries. It is also argued that the assumption of a ‘system of philosophy’ in Plotinus is historically incorrect—we do not find this concept in Plotinus’ writings, and his own statements about method point in other directions. Eduard Zeller (active in the second half of the 19th century) is typically regarded as the first to give a satisfying account of Plotinus’ philosophy as a whole. In this article, on the other hand, Zeller is seen as having finalised a tradition initiated in the 18th century. Very few Plotinus scholars have examined the interpretative development prior to Zeller. Schiavone (1952) and Bonetti (1971), for instance, have given little attention to Brucker’s introduction of the concept of a ‘system of philosophy’. The present analysis, then, has value for an understanding of Plotinus’ Enneads. It also explains why “pre-Bruckerian” interpretations of Plotinus appear alien to the modern reader; the analysis may even serve to make some sense of the hermeneutics employed by Renaissance Platonists and commentators, who are often eclipsed from the tradition of Platonism.

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The present state of scholarship in twentieth-and twenty-first-century rhetoric studies is diverse. Rhetoric, in multiple guises, has permeated a variety of academic disciplines, such as advertising, anthropology, classics, communication, critical theory, economics, ethnic studies, law, literary studies, management, marketing, medicine, natural sciences, philosophy, psychology, rhetoric and composition, theater, theology, transnational politics, and women's and gender studies. Because tracing scholarship in all these disciplines is beyond the scope of this book, this chapter focuses on the diversity of the twentieth-and twentyfirst-century scholarship that informs rhetoric and composition studies. Thanks in part to this field's emergence in the mid-1960s,* rhetoric scholarship exploded during the 1970s and dispersed during the 1980s, 1990s, and 185 * Rhetorical studies traditionally focused on the integrated arts of speaking, reading, writing, and listening. But in 1914, speaking and listening split from reading and writing when public speaking professionals (influenced by a German model of the university that favored disciplinary departments) seceded from NCTE. Consequently, rhetorical studies split into two departments: speech (focusing primarily on speaking) and English (focusing primarily on reading), with listening and writing relegated to secondary status, respectively. During two world wars and the 1950s boom, this split became institutionalized within U.S. universities. English professors taught great literature, simply assuming students could write, but the increased enrollments in the 1960s exposed the myth of this assumption. Consequently, scholars and teachers organized to seek theories and methods for training writing teachers and for teaching students to write. Because rhetorical studies was one site where such theories and methods were rediscovered, rhetorical studies was revived as rhetoric and composition studies in English departments by scholars such as Edward P. J. Corbett, James Kinneavy, and Winifred Bryan Horner-all of whom are now heralded as pioneers of rhetoric and composition-primarily to ground composition pedagogy. Since the mid-1960s, however, rhetoric and composition studies have greatly diversified. kr ista ratcliffe 2000s. To map this dispersion, this chapter offers a 2009 snapshot of scholarship that both updates existing research areas from previous editions of this book and also identifies new research areas. As with all snapshots, this one leaves some scholarly landscape hovering outside the frame of this chapter. For example, research areas (such as rhetoric and disability studies) do not have separate sections here. Other research areas (such as rhetoric and hermeneutics) do not have separate sections here but are present in earlier editions of this book (1983 and 1990), which readers are encouraged to consult. The value of this 2009 snapshot lies not simply in the nineteen updated or newly identified research areas but especially in the generous contributions of noted schol...

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Plotinus

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