Table of Contents

Translator's Preface Abbreviations Used in References Introduction: Reading Hadot Reading Plotinus by Arnold I. Davidson 1: Portrait 2: Levels of the Self 3: Presence 4: Love 5: Virtues 6: Gentleness 7: Solitude Postface to the Third Edition Chronological Biography Analytical Bibliography References Index of Plotinian Quotations Index

About the Author

Pierre Hadot (1922-2010) was professor of the history of Hellenistic and Roman thought at the Collège de France. He was the author of many books, including Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision. Michael Chase is senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Centre Jean Pépin and adjunct professor of Greek and Roman studies at the University of Victoria. He is the author and translator of many books, including Ammonius: Interpretation of Porphyry's Introduction to Aristotle's Five Terms. Arnold I. Davidson is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches principally in the Department of Jewish Thought and the Department of Romance Studies. He is also the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago.