Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Porphyry’s Arrangement of the Enneads
- Abbreviations of Other Ancient Works and Authors
- Introduction
- Part I Historical Context
- Part II Metaphysics and Epistemology
- 5 Plotinus and the Theory of Forms
- 6 Plotinus on Number
- 7 Plotinus on Categories
- 8 Plotinus on Knowledge
- Part III Psychology
- Part IV Natural Philosophy
- Part V Ethics
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
6 - Plotinus on Number
from Part II - Metaphysics and Epistemology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2022
Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Porphyry’s Arrangement of the Enneads
- Abbreviations of Other Ancient Works and Authors
- Introduction
- Part I Historical Context
- Part II Metaphysics and Epistemology
- 5 Plotinus and the Theory of Forms
- 6 Plotinus on Number
- 7 Plotinus on Categories
- 8 Plotinus on Knowledge
- Part III Psychology
- Part IV Natural Philosophy
- Part V Ethics
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
Summary
The concept of number is treated at some length in Ennead 6.6, though it is less conspicuous in the rest of the Enneads. This may explain why it does not usually make the headlines of Plotinus’ metaphysics and epistemology – the focus of this part of the Companion – nor of their concomitant scholarship.1 The specialized studies of the concept of number in Neoplatonism in the last twenty years, however, have revealed the essential role of number in the Neoplatonic model of the universe.2 This chapter demonstrates that, below each headline in the Enneads, number writes the story.
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- The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus , pp. 136 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022