Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson

Biographic Data

ID1161807
NAMEEyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson
GIVEN NAMESEyjolfur Kjalar
FAMILY NAMEEmilsson
SIGNATUREEMILSSON E K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oslo
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Sense-Perception, Reasoning and Forms in Plotinus

    Eyjolfur Kjalar EmilssonARTICLEPhronesis2021Cited by: 1

    This paper discusses the role of innate concepts derived from Intellect in Plotinus’ account of cognition of the sensible realm. Several passages have been claimed as evidence for such innateness, but an analysis of them shows that they do not support this claim. It is tentatively suggested that, nevertheless, some very general concepts such as difference, sameness and being are integral to the faculty of sense and play a crucial role in concept …

  • Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity

    Torstein Tollefsen, Panagiotis G Pavlos et al.EDITORBOOKPlatonism and Christian Thought…2019

  • Plotinus

    Eyjolfur Kjalar EmilssonBOOKPlotinus2017

    Plotinus (AD 205–270) was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of Plotinus’ philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time. Beginning with a chapter-length overview of Plotinus’ life and works which also assesses the Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic tra…

  • Plotinus on sympatheia

    Eyjolfur Kjalar EmilssonCHAPTERSympathy2015

    Plotinus's views on sympatheia are the subject of this chapter. His application of this concept builds on Stoic doctrine as well as on Plato's view as expressed in the Timaeus. There is a very marked difference between Plotinus and the Stoics, however, in that Plotinus entirely rejects the physicalism of the Stoics. Thus, for Plotinus, sympatheia is altogether founded on the unity of an incorporeal soul. He appeals to sympatheia to account for ev…

  • The Quest for the Good Life

    Miira ca /21 Jh Tuominen, Øyvind Rabbås et al.EDITORBOOKThe Quest for the Good Life2015

    Happiness was a central focus of ancient philosophy: this volume traces conceptions of happiness through nearly a millennium, from the Presocratics through Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy to the Neo-Platonists and Augustine in late antiquity. The contributors address questions raised by ancient thinkers that are still of deep concern

  • Plotinus on Sense Perception

    Open AccessEyjolfur Kjalar EmilssonCHAPTERTheories of Perception in…2008

  • Plotinus on Intellect

    Eyjolfur Kjalar EmilssonBOOKPlotinus on intellect2007

    Plotinus led the philosophical movement of Neoplatonism, which interpreted Plato's thought later in antiquity and went on to become a dominant force in the history of ideas. Emilsson's study of Plotinus' central doctrine of Intellect caters for the increasing interest in Plotinus with philosophical clarity and rigour.

  • Aristotle and Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity

    Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson, Henry Blumenthal et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1998

  • The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

    Open AccessMaria Luisa Gatti, John Bussanich et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to Plotinus1996

    Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year peri…

  • Cognition and its object

    Open AccessEyjolfur Kjalar EmilssonCHAPTERThe Cambridge Companion to Plotinus1996

    In this essay I shall address some philosophical issues that have to do with the relationship between cognition and its objects in Plotinus. This involves inquiring into the connection between Plotinus's epistemology and psychology, on the one hand, and his ontology, on the other. Interesting questions arise with respect to Plotinus's views both as regards the relation between sense perception and the sensible object and that of thinking and the …

  • Plato's Self‐Refutation Argument in Theaetetus 171A‐C Revisited

    Eyjolfur Kjalar EmilssonARTICLEPhronesis1994

    L'A. etablit une reconstruction plausible du dialogue hypothetique entre Protagoras et ses opposants qui sous-tend le dialogue manifeste entre Socrate et Theodorus dans le passage 171a-c du «Theetete», afin de montrer comment l'argument dit de l'auto-refutation, que Platon oppose a la doctrine selon laquelle l'homme est la mesure de toute chose, reduit Protagoras au silence par l'utilisation de qualificatifs, meme s'il ne parvient a prouver son i…

  • Plotinus on Sense-Perception

    Henry Blumenthal, H J Blumenthal et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1992

  • Plotinus

    Eyjolfur Kjalar EmilssonARTICLEIsis1991

  • Plotinus on Sense-Perception

    D W Hamlyn, Eyjolfur Kjalar EmilssonARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1989

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Plotinus on Sense-Perception. By Eyjolfur K. Emilsson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. ix + 179. Price £25.00.) D. W. Hamlyn D. W. Hamlyn Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 154, January 1989, Pages 122–124, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220359 Published: 01 January 1989

  • Plotinus on Sense-Perception

    Open AccessEyjolfur Kjalar EmilssonBOOKPlotinus on Sense-Perception1988

    This book is a philosophical analysis of Plotinus' views on sense-perception. It aims to show how his thoughts were both original and a development of the ideas of his predecessors, in particular those of Plato, Aristotle and the Peripatetics. Special attention is paid to Plotinus' dualism with respect to soul and body and its implications for his views on the senses. The author combines a historical approach to his subject, setting Plotinus' tho…