The Review of Metaphysics, September 1st, 1995
This is a translation of the third (1989) edition of Hadot's Plotin ou la simplicite du regard (first edition, 1963). As the translator explains, Hadot "did not wish his Plotinus to be a work of scholarship" (p. x). It is rather "a spiritual biography of Plotinus - not an analysis of all the details of Plotinus' system - and it is as a spiritual biography that it should be read" (introduction, p. 1). Chapters 1-5 present Plotinus' spiritual teachings, and chapters 6-7 discuss his biography in their light. The work is not primarily philosophical in nature, and describes Plotinus' vision of hu...
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