Aleksei Losev on Plotinus' treatise «On Numbers»
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Aleksei Losev on Plotinus' treatise «On Numbers»
Abstract:
This article considers the historical and philosophical activity of A.F. Losev – an original thinker of the twentieth century. The author’s investigation focuses on Losev’s work “The Dialectics of Number in Plotinus” (1928). The translation, commentary and analysis of Plotinus’s treatise “On Numbers” (“Ennead” VI.6) are considered only as an example of A.F. Losev’s activity as a historian of philosophy, which reveals the depth of his historical and philosophical thought.
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Key words:
Enneads, philosophy of number, Plotinus’ metaphysics, Losev’s dialectics, Neoplatonism, ancient philosophy
The DOI index:
10.17588/2076-9210.2024.2.062-075
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