The Flight of the All-One to the All-One: The phygē monu pros monon as the Basis of Plotinian Altruism

It has become commonplace to contrast Plotinus’s spirituality with Christian spirituality by portraying the former as solipsistic and the latter as communal. In particular, this critique has centred around Plotinus’s description of mystical ascent as a "flight of the alone to the alone" an...

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Subtitles:The Flight of the All-One to the All-One: The φυγὴ μόνου πρὸς μόνον as the Basis of Plotinian Altruism
Main Author: Tolan, Daniel J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2021
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2021, Volume: 114, Issue: 4, Pages: 469-490
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Plotinus 205-270 / Plato 427 BC-347 BC, Phaedrus / Monotheism / Monism / One (The One in philosophy) / Mystical union
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NBC Doctrine of God
TB Antiquity
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Henosis
B Monism
B Mysticism
B Platonism
B Monotheism
B Plotinus
B Apophaticism
B Unio Mystica
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