The Life of Contemplation and the Life of Action: Platinus and Φρόνησις
Jasmina Popovska
Abstract:The analysis of the characteristics of the concept φρόνησις (phronesis) in Plotinus' philosophy inevitably opens a wider discussion about the status and autonomy of ethical theory in Plotinus' philosophy and about the relationship between contemplative and active life. On the one hand, the paradigmatic interpretations hold that there is an otherworldly, self-centred and elitist ethics in Plotinus' philosophy, and on the other, in the recent interpretations, the so-called "ethics of descent", as opposed to "eth… Show more
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