The Philosophy of Plotinus: The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917 - 1918 ( VOL. 1&2 ) [Paperback] [2003] (Author) William Ralph Inge

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Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

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First published January 1, 1918

About the author

Sir William Ralph Inge was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. After taking a double first in Classics, he became a tutor at Hertford College, Oxford, and was made a deacon in the Church of England in 1888. After a time as Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, Inge was elected Dean of St. Paul's cathedral in 1911 by Asquith, a position he held until 1934.

During his life, Inge was President of the Aristotelian society, a columnist for the Evening Standard, a fellow of the British Academy, and a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. He received honorary doctorates from Oxford, Aberdeen, Durham, Sheffield, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews. Inge received honorary fellowships from King's and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge, and Hertford College, Oxford.

Reviews

[Murray · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an extraordinarily valuable book (or books as it comes in two volumes). It is probably not now in print, but well worth seeking for a second hand copy. Inge presents the vitally important, but not always easy to grasp, philosophy of the great Neoplatonist, Plotinus. He organises his ideas into themes which he covered in different lectures given in the early part of last century.

Themes include: The World of Sense, The Soul, The Absolute, The Immortality of the Soul,The Spiritual World.

[Phil Calandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author outlines the important tenets of the philosophy of Plotinus. Plotinus is generally considered a great philosopher and mystic of the third century. He believed that the spiritual world is the only true world and the reality of soul, and the phenomenal world are derivatives of it. This is an extremely difficult book which is more geared to those trained in classic or ancient philosophy