Francesco Scaglione

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Preface
Acknowledgments

[xxi] Implicit in that acknowledgement is a further debt, to the inventers and sustainers of the Word Wide Web, which serves-in addition to its practical advantages-as a working image, eikon aei eikonizomene (“an image always reimagining itself”; after II.3 [52].18, 17), of the Plotinian Intellect.

Part I: Prolegomena

1. Why Read Plotinus?

2. How to Read Plotinus?

3. Theories about Metaphor

4. Dialectic

Part II: Metaphorically Speaking

5. Naked and Alone

6. On Becoming Love

7. Shadow Plays and Mirrors

8. Reason Drunk and Sober

9. Dancing

10. Remembering and Forgetting

[122] It is forgetting that is more significant for Plotinus than this-wordly use of the art of memory. Heracles's shadow might recall his earthly life, but Heracles himself does not remember it IV.3 [27].27.¹⁾

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After Homer, Odyssey 11.601ff.; see also IV.3 [27.32, 24-5; The Plotinian Way ==== [296] The quotation is not from [[Isaiah 12.6 but from Isaiah 11.6. Bibliography
Index of Passages from the Enneads
Index of Names and Subjects

Stranamente ignora KALLIGAS 2014, sia nella bibliografia che nell'indice.