Giannis Stamatellos

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Giannis Stamatellos, Greece


Stamatellos, Giannis (2007) Plotinus and the Presocratics. A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus’ Enneads. SUNY Press.

Introduction

1. The Origins of Plotinus’ Philosophy

1.1 Plotinus’ Predecessors
1.2 Plotinus’ Philosophical Method
1.2.1 Lectures and Writings
1.2.2 Language, Simile, and Metaphor
1.2.3 Quoting Predecessors
1.3 Plotinus’ Philosophical Sources
1.3.1 Plato
1.3.2 Aristotle
1.3.3 Stoics and Epicureans
1.3.4 Middle-Platonists, Aristotelians, and Neopythagoreans
1.3.5 Gnostics, Christians, the Orient, and other Contemporary Movements
1.4 Plotinus and the Presocratics

2. One and Unity

2.1 The One in Plotinus
2.2 The Presocratic One in the Enneads
2.3 Parmenides’ Monism
2.4 The Ineffable One
2.4.1 The Apophatism of the First Principle
2.4.2 The Pythagorean Apophatism of the Monad
2.5 The One as First Principle
2.5.1 Heraclitus’ One
2.5.2 Empedocles’ Philia
2.5.3 Anaxagoras’ Mind

3. Intellect and Being

3.1 Plotinus’ Theory of Intellect
3.2 Eleatic Being in the Enneads
3.3 The Nature of Being
3.3.1 Parmenides’ Theory of Being
3.3.2 Plotinus on Parmenides’ Being
3.3.3 Thinking and Being
3.4 The Predicates of Being
3.4.1 Ungenerated and Indestructible
3.4.2 Indivisible and Self-identical
3.4.3 Imperturbable and Changeless

4. Eternity and Time

4.1 Plotinus’ Theory of Eternity and Time
4.2 Eternity and Time in the Presocratics
4.3 The Presocratic Theories of Eternity and Time in the Enneads
4.4 The Timelessness of Being
4.4.1 Philolaus’ Eternal Continuance and Plato’s Eternity of the Forms
4.4.2 Parmenides’ Timelessness of Being
4.4.3 Plotinus’ Timelessness of Eternity
4.5 The Eternal Life of Intellect
4.5.1 Eternity in Heraclitus
4.5.2 Eternal Life in Empedocles
4.6 The Everlastingness of Time
4.6.1 The Myth of Time
4.6.2 The Everlastingness of the Cosmos
4.6.3 The Movement of the Spheres, Eternal Recurrence, and Spiral Time

5. Matter and Soul

5.1 Matter and Ensouled Body in Plotinus
5.2 Plotinus’ Criticism of Presocratic Matter
5.2.1 Anaximander’s apeiron
5.2.2 Empedocles’ Theory of the Four Elements
5.2.3 Anaxagoras’ Theory of Matter
5.2.4 The Atomic Theory of Matter
5.3 Plotinus’ Theory of the Ensouled Body
5.3.1 The Presocratic Theories of the Ensouled Body in the Enneads
5.3.2 Heraclitus’ Theory of Soul and Physical Alteration
5.3.3 The daimo¯n in Empedocles

6. Conclusion

Appendix. Text of Presocratic Fragments in Plotinus’ Enneads
Notes
Bibliography
Index Fontium
Index of Concepts and Proper Names

Stamatellos, Giannis (2007) Computer Ethics: A Global Perspective. Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

1.   What is Computer Ethics?

 

Part A: Ethical Issues

 

2.   Computer Crime and Security

3.   Privacy and Anonymity

4.   Intellectual Property

5.   Computer Reliability

Part B:  Social Impact

6.   Intelligent Machines

7.   Computers in Business

8.   Computers in Health

9.   Computers in Education

10. Computers in Entertainment

11. Computers in Politics

Stamatellos, Giannis (2012) Introduction to Presocratics: A Thematic Approach to Early Greek Philosophy with Key Readings. Wiley-Blackwell.

Preface

Chronology
Map

1. Introduction
2. The Philosophers
3. Principles
4. Cosmos
5. Being
6. Soul
7. Knowledge
8. Ethics
9. Conclusion

Appendix A: Translation of the main fragments
Appendix B: The Presocratic Sources
Appendix C: The Presocratic Legacy

Glossary of Greek terms
Glossary of philosophical terms

Bibliography
Indexes

 

 

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