The Platonizing Sethian background of Plotinus's mysticism

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Title
"The Platonizing Sethian background of Plotinus's mysticism"
Statement of Responsibility
by Alexander J. Mazur
Publisher
  • Brill
  • Rev. ed. / by Dylan M. Burns, with Kevin Corrigan ... [et al.]
Publication Year
  • c2021
Book size
25 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback

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Notes

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 2010, titled The Platonizing Sethian Gnostic background of Plotinus' mysticism

Summary: "In The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus's Mysticism, Zeke Mazur offers a radical reconceptualization of Plotinus with reference to Gnostic thought and praxis. A crucial element in the thought of the third-century CE philosopher Plotinus-his conception of mystical union with the One-cannot be understood solely within the conventional history of philosophy, or as the product of a unique, sui generis psychological propensity. This monograph demonstrates that Plotinus tacitly patterned his mystical ascent to the One on a type of visionary ascent ritual that is first attested in Gnostic sources. These sources include the Platonizing Sethian tractates Zostrianos (NHC VIII,1) and Allogenes (NHC XI,3) of which we have Coptic translations from Nag Hammadi and whose Greek Vorlagen were known to have been read in Plotinus's school"--Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. [319]-337

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