PERCEPEREA FRUMOSULUI LA PLOTIN. PREFIGURAREA UNEI CĂI MEONTOLOGICE DE CONSTITUIRE A ESTETICII
The Perception of Beauty in Plotinus. The Foreshadowing of a Meontological Way for the Constitution of Aesthetics

Summary/Abstract: In this essay I tackle theproblem of perception in the context of the plotinian philosophy, with an emphasis onthe “psychological” mechanisms involved in the perception of Oneness, Goodness andBeauty. As I argue, these are “meontological” ideas that are perceived by the humansoul through a peculiar power, namely an “ineffable consent” of the unity with the firstprinciple. Subsequently, these impressions left by the idea of Beauty in our soul enter aspecial hermeneutical process through which they form the multitude of ideaspopulating the “intellectual world”. Following the steps of the platonic analysis of Erosand its epistemological role, Plotin rethinks the foundations of the Platonianepistemology and ontology, giving it a meontological turn which can be used to rebuildmodern-day aesthetics as a rigorous philosophical science.

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