Date of Award
Spring 1985
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Humanities
Committee Director
R. Baine Harris
Committee Member
A. W. Mathews
Committee Member
Philip Harris
Call Number for Print
Special Collections LD4331.H85S95
Abstract
Plotinus introduces the notion of intelligible matter to his system to elaborate on the multiplicity of the intelligible world and its procession from the One. As far as the intelligible world is stabilized by intelligible matter's turning towards the One, it is naturally conceived to be endowed with contemplative force. In the middle and late period of the development of Plotinus' philosophy, intelligible matter conspicuously functions as the principle of movement, intellection and desire towards the One. This vital conception of intelligible matter gives an ontological basis to the fact that Intellect is free from tedium. But the more dynamic intelligible matter becomes, the more durational terminology is involved in accounts for the intelligible reality and the more incompatible these accounts become with Plotinus' own notion of eternity as a nunc stans, a changeless now.
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DOI
10.25777/he4c-fb45
Recommended Citation
Sumi, Atsushi.
"Noetic Infinity and Intelligible Matter: Reexamination of the Fundamental Structure of the Philosophy of Plotinus"
(1985). Master of Arts (MA), Thesis, Humanities, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/he4c-fb45
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/humanities_etds/119