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PORPHYRY THE APOSTATE: ASSESSING PORPHYRY'S REACTION TO PLOTINUS'S DOCTRINE OF THE ONE
Author(s) -
O'NEILL SEAMUS
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the heythrop journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1468-2265
pISSN - 0018-1196
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2011.00686.x
Subject(s) - doctrine , citation , philosophy , theology , computer science , history , classics , literature , art , library science
In an article in the first volume of Harris’s Studies in Neoplatonism, Patrick Atherton described what he saw as a radical difference between the trinitarian and Neoplatonic first principles. The distinction he draws is seminal: because the first principle, or , produces all things, all that follows from it is determined by its nature. Whereas the unity of what Atherton describes as the ‘Neoplatonic One’ transcends all relation and difference,
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