Plotinus and Epicurus

Angela Longo is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy at the University of L'Aquila. Her research focuses on Plato and late Platonism, particularly Plotinus, Syrianus, Hermias and Proclus. Her books include Plotin, Traité 2 (IV, 7). Sur l'immortalité de l'âme. Introduction, traduction, commentaire et notes (2009) and Argument from Hypothesis in Ancient Philosophy (2011). Daniela Patrizia Taormina is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' and Visiting Professor at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris. Her books include Plutarco di Atene. L'Uno, l'anima e le forme (1989), Jamblique, critique de Plotin et de Porphyre. Quatre études (1999) and Giamblico. I frammenti dalle epistole. Introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento (with R. M. Piccione, 2010).

Preface Daniela Patrizia Taormina; Introduction Angela Longo and Daniela Patrizia Taormina; Part I. Historical Overview: 1. The school and texts of Epicurus in the early centuries of the Roman empire Tiziano Dorandi; Part II. Common Anti-Epicurean Arguments in Plotinus: 2. The mention of Epicurus in Plotinus' tr. 33 (Enn. II 9) in the context of the polemics between Pagans and Christians in the second-third century AD: parallels between Celsus, Plotinus and Origen Angela Longo; 3. Epicureans and Gnostics in tr. 47 (Enn. III 2) 7.29-41 Manuel Mazzetti; 4. 'Heavy birds' in tr. 5 (Enn. V 9) 1.8: References to Epicureanism and the problem of pleasure in Plotinus Mauricio Pagotto Marsola; 5. Plotinus, Epicurus and the problem of intellectual evidence: tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1 Pierre-Marie Morel; 6. 'What is known through sense perception is an image'. Plotinus' tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1.12-19: an anti-Epicurean argument? Daniela Patrizia Taormina; Part III. Plotinus' Criticism of Epicurean Doctrines: 7. Corporeal matter, indefiniteness and multiplicity: Plotinus' critique of Epicurean atomism in tr. 12 (Enn. II 4) 7.20-8 Marco Ninci; 8. Plotinus' reception of Epicurean atomism in On Fate, tr. 3 (Enn. III 1) 1-3 Erik Eliasson; Part IV. Epicureans Elements in Plotinus: Some Instances: 9. Athroa epibolē: on an Epicurean formula in Plotinus' work Andrei Cornea; 10. Plotinus and Epicurus on pleasure and happiness Alessandro Linguiti.