William Ralph Inge (1860–1954)
Autor de Christian Mysticism
Sobre El Autor
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Obras de William Ralph Inge
The Philosophy of Plotinus; The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917-1918 [2-volume set] (1941) 26 copias
The Philosophy of Plotinus; The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917-1918, Volume 2 (1918) 15 copias
The Philosophy of Plotinus; The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917-1918, Volume 1 (1918) 14 copias
Radhakrishnan: Comparative Studies in Philosophy Presented in Honor of His Sixtieth Birthday (1968) 8 copias
The Gate of Life 6 copias
-All Saint's sermons 4 copias
The things that remain 3 copias
The fall of idols 3 copias
Labels & libels 2 copias
Assessments and anticipations 2 copias
THINGS NEW AND OLD - SERMONS AND ADDRESSES IN GREAT ST. MARY'S, CAMBRIDGE JANUARY 28TH TO FEBRUARY 5TH 1933 (1933) 2 copias
Modernism in literature 1 copia
Wit and wisdom of Dean Inge 1 copia
The story of Paula, 1 copia
The Bible and How to Read It 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Then and Now. A Selection of Articles, Stories & Poems, Taken from the First Fifty Numbers of ‘Now & Then’,… (1935) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Philosophy. The journal of the British Institute of Philosophy. Volume XIII, No. 52. October 1938 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Gloomy Dean, The
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1860-06-06
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1954-02-26
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK (England)
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Crayke, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Crayke, Yorkshire, England, UK (birth)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK - Educación
- Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England, UK
University of Cambridge (King's College) - Ocupaciones
- priest (Church of England)
author
Professor of Divinity
Dean of St Paul's, London - Organizaciones
- University of Cambridge
- Premios y honores
- Fellow, British Academy (1921)
KCVO (1930)
CVO (1918)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 56
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 468
- Popularidad
- #52,559
- Valoración
- 2.9
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 92
The chapters focus on different aspects of Plotinus' writings: matter, soul, spirit, religion, aesthetics, morals, and The Absolute. The absolute is an interesting, if currently unfashionable, philosophical concept. In Plotinus it comprises Truth, Beauty, and Goodness - concepts drawn closely from Plato. The idea is that these three things possess absolute reality, not being relative or constructed concepts as some philosophy has them, nor contingent as the material world. Truth, of course, does have absolute existence, provided we only mean necessary truth (such as mathematical truths), and not contingent truth, but I find it hard to be without some doubts that the other two have absolute reality, though the Greek meaning of these words is not identical to typical English useage. Goodness and beauty more commonly feel like they are relative, in reality, but Plotinus answers this with the claim that our experiences of them are generally imperfect copies of the original and perfect forms of them that exist in a comparable way to Plato's forms. Together the three things form the One, which shares a lot of properties with God, being outside of space and time, Eternal, the highest stage of reality, and having perfection.
Much of what is attractive and convincing in Plato is to be found in Plotinus, though in a much different format. There is not the irony and other rhetorical devices of Plato, though this of course makes the reading less entertaining, though less easy to misunderstand.
What may seem an irony though is that Plotinus was a pagan, and didn't like Christians, but his philosophy is probably the only system that pretends any sort of completeness while also being largely compatible with Christian theology. As the author writes:".. we cannot preserve Platonism without Christianity, nor Christianity without Platonism, nor civilisation without both."
I would recommend this book to readers interested in philosophy or religion. More will be gained from reading it if a reasonable familiarity with Plato is already had, as many of the important concepts discussed here are originally from Plato, and will not be straightforward or convincing if they have not been covered separately and in more depth.… (más)