Philosophic Silence and the 'One' in Plotinus (Hardcover)

Part I. The Cultural Roots of Platonist Philosophic Silence: 1. De philosophorum Graecorum silentio mystico: preliminaries; 2. The silent philosopher; 3. Perennial wisdom and Platonist tradition; 4. Plotinus and 'the Ancients': tradition, truth and transcendence; Part II. The Transcendent Absolute, the Ineffable and Plotinian Poetics of Transcendence: 5. The development of the Transcendent Absolute in the Middle Platonist milieu; 6. The Transcendent Absolute and the ineffability of reality in Plotinus; 7. The poetics of transcendence in Plotinus.