Metoda dialektyczna a funkcje chôrismos w metafizyce Plotyna
Dialectical Method and the Role of chôrismos in Plotinus’ Metaphysics

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is the role of chôrismos (separation) in the philosophy of Plotinus. Its primary aim is to explore relationships between chôrismos, dialectical method and noetic knowledge. The first part of this article demonstrate metaphysicaland methodological function of chôrismos, the essence of which is to establish thesubject matter of metaphysics (i.e. ontos on). The second part contains an analysisof the anagogic way of a soul to self-knowledge in the context of chôrismos andPlotinus’ aretology. The third part sums up our investigations. It develops relationships,extracted in previous sections, especially connections between dialectic andfunctions of chôrismos.

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