Neoplatonism and nature studies in Plotinus' Enneads - Wagner, Michael F. 1952-. (Albany State University of New York Press, 2002)
Plotinus and the possibility of natural science / Ronald F. Hathaway -- The practice of Plotinian physics / Jonathan Scott Lee -- Plotinus and biology / Anthony Preus -- Plotinus against Aristotle's essentialism / Lloyd P. Gerson -- Explanation and nature in Enneads VI.7.1-15 / Sara L. Rappe -- Providence: the Platonic demiurge and Hellenistic causality / Gary M. Gurtler -- Freedom and providence in Plotinus / Laura S. Westra -- The notion of beauty in the structure of the universe: Pythagorean influences / Aphrodite Alexandrakis -- The one: substance or function? / Reiner Schurmann -- Plotinus on the origin of matter / William J. Carroll -- Plotinus' set of categories for the kosmos aisthetos / Christos Evangeliou -- Sympathy: Stoic materialism and the Platonic soul / Gary M. Gurtler -- Plotinus, nature, and the scientific spirit / Michael F. Wagner.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Plotinus; Neoplatonism