TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mazur, Zeke
ED  - Burns, Dylan M.
ED  - Corrigan, Kevin
ED  - Miroshnikov, Ivan
ED  - Rasimus, Tuomas
ED  - Turner, John Douglas
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021//
TI  - Platonizing Sethian background of Plotinus's mysticism
T3  - Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 98
ET  - Revised edition / by Dylan M. Burns, with Kevin Corrigan, Ivan Miroshnikov, Tuomas Rasimus, and John D. Turner
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Philosophy
AB  - 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
SN  - 9789004441712
UR  - https://brill.com/abstract/title/59061
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004441712
DO  - 10.1163/9789004441712
LA  - English
N1  - Zeke Mazur
ID  - 175171232X
ER  -