Christopher Isaac Noble
Biographic Data
| ID | 5968971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Isaac Noble |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher Isaac |
| FAMILY NAME | Noble |
| SIGNATURE | NOBLE C I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought
What does it mean to be free, and what are the metaphysical conditions for freedom? What are the prerequisites for being an agent who can be held responsible for their actions? What connection, if any, is there between freedom and responsibility? Ursula Coope poses these enduring questions to the Neoplatonists, who represent the dominant philosophical tradition in late antiquity, beginning with Plotinus in the third century AD and extending throu…
Plotinus’ Unaffectable Soul
In Ennead 3. 6 Plotinus maintains that the soul is unaffectable. This thesis is widely taken to imply that his soul is exempt from change and free from emotional 'affections'. Yet these claims are difficult to reconcile with evidence that Plotinian souls acquire dispositional states, such as virtues, and are subjects of emotional 'affections', such as anger. This paper offers an alternative account. In denying affections to soul, Plotinus is offe…
How Plotinus’ Soul Animates his Body
In this paper I offer an analysis of Plotinus’ argument for the existence of a quasi-psychic entity, the so-called ‘trace of soul’, that functions as an immanent cause of life for an organism’s body. I argue that Plotinus posits this entity primarily in order to account for the body’s possession of certain quasi-psychic states that are instrumental in his account of soul-body interaction. Since these quasi-psychic states imply that an organism’s …
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How Plotinus’ Soul Animates his Body
In this paper I offer an analysis of Plotinus’ argument for the existence of a quasi-psychic entity, the so-called ‘trace of soul’, that functions as an immanent cause of life for an organism’s body. I argue that Plotinus posits this entity primarily in order to account for the body’s possession of certain quasi-psychic states that are instrumental in his account of soul-body interaction. Since these quasi-psychic states imply that an organism’s …
Plotinus’ Unaffectable Soul
In Ennead 3. 6 Plotinus maintains that the soul is unaffectable. This thesis is widely taken to imply that his soul is exempt from change and free from emotional 'affections'. Yet these claims are difficult to reconcile with evidence that Plotinian souls acquire dispositional states, such as virtues, and are subjects of emotional 'affections', such as anger. This paper offers an alternative account. In denying affections to soul, Plotinus is offe…
Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought
What does it mean to be free, and what are the metaphysical conditions for freedom? What are the prerequisites for being an agent who can be held responsible for their actions? What connection, if any, is there between freedom and responsibility? Ursula Coope poses these enduring questions to the Neoplatonists, who represent the dominant philosophical tradition in late antiquity, beginning with Plotinus in the third century AD and extending throu…
Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works) · Psychic (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Soul (2 works) · Ancient philosophy (1 work)