商品簡介
Ho investigates Plotinus' (204–270 AD) mysticism of henosis, unity with the One, in light of his metaphysics of the One. The Enneads is a text of mystical teachings that mediates the reality of henosis by giving spiritual guidance, he says. He investigates Plotinus' methods of mystical teaching and how these methods relate to henosis as their desired goal. His conclusions are that the methods Plotinus taught are the practices of philosophy and negative theology, which aim at knowlng intelligible beings and the transcendent One. These practices do not help people attain henosis, he finds, but remind them that their failure to do so pertains to their natural condition in which they are united with the One. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Pao-Shen Ho holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universitat Innsbruck (Austria).
