PLOTINUS: MYTH, METAPHOR AND PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE

Book ID/图书代码： 13560016B88461

English Summary/英文概要： The thought of the Roman philosopher, Plotinus (c. 205-70), has been the object of perennial fascination for philosophers and laymen alike. Best known today for his doctrine of self-transformation through contemplation, Plotinus did not regard his originality as formulating new truths but rather as showing how to engage in spiritual exercises so as to live philosophical-ly. Taking a highly unconventional approach, the distinguished philosopher Stephen R. L. Clark here gives us a book that is at once deeply penetrating and highly personal. Clark focuses on dimensions of Plotinus that scholars have dismissed as irrel-evant or merely “ornamental”: his images, metaphors, and myths. He argues that we need to understand those dimensions in the cultural and philosophical context of his time if we are to understand what those exercises amount to, and so to under-stand, as it were from within, where his philosophy leads. Clark shows how Plotinus employs specific images drawn from the Greek literary tradition for philosophical purposes: images of knowledge like those of light or drunkenness; or images of be-ing itself in order to analyze and explore the realities of the Divine Intellect. He also notes their momentous legacy in later thinkers in the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions. The book aims to be both scholarly and open to psychotherapeutic discussions from within other philosophical and psychiatric traditions that acknowledge the role that stories, myths, and met-aphors play in constructing the mind.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 古罗马哲学家普罗提诺（C. 205-70）的思想是哲学家和外行常年迷恋的对象。在如今，他最有名的是通过沉思自我改造的学说，普罗提诺不认为他的独创性是新的真理，而是展示了如何参与精神活动以哲学地生活。著名的哲学家史蒂芬•R•克拉克采取了一种非传统的方法，给我们带来一本深刻渗透和高度个人的书。克拉克关注被学者斥为无关的事件或只是“观赏”的普罗提诺的一面：他的意象，隐喻，和神话。他认为，我们需要在普罗提诺的时代文化和哲学背景下理解这些方面，如果我们要了解这些练习意味着什么，以及理解从他的哲学线索内部而来的练习。克拉克展示了普罗提诺为了哲学目的如何利用来自希腊文学传统的特定形象：像光或醉酒的见识形象；或为了分析和探讨神圣理智的现实的图像本身。他还注意到在后来穆斯林，犹太教和基督教思想家中流传下来的重要遗产。这本书的目不仅是学术性，还打开了与其他哲学和精神传统关于心理治疗的讨论，当然它们都承认故事，神话和隐喻在思想建设中的作用。(LNL)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 史蒂芬R.L.克拉克是英国哲学家，利物普大学哲学系名誉教授。他是17本书的作者，包括《动物的道德地位》（1977），《野兽的天性》（1982）以及《动物和他们的道德地位》

Stephen R.L. Clark is a British philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of 17 books, including The Moral Status of Animals (1977), The Nature of the Beast (1982), Animals and Their Moral Standing

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