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• Title:
  Plotinus’ last days: pandemic and philosophy
• Creator:
  Stróżyński, Mateusz
• Description:
  The traditional view of the cause of Plotinus’ death was leprosy. The analysis of the biographical sources, however, point to another hypothesis, that of „Cyprian’s plague”. The last months of Plotinus life and work coincided with the end of this great ancient pandemic and he produced four treatises, focused primarily on ethical problems. The last treatise, On the primal Good (1.7) is a short and concentrated meditation on the First Principle and the soul’s ascent to it.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Mateusz Stróżyński
• Date:
  2021.10.12
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Vol. 31 No. 1 (2021); 285-301;
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Tom 31 Nr 1 (2021); 285-301;
  2720-2305;
  0302-7384
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/29651/26326
• Subject:
  Plotinus;
  Cyprian’s plague;
  pandemic;
  death;
  Porphyry;
  Firmicus Maternus;
  the Enneads;
  the Good
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/29651
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text