YENİ - PLATONCULUKTA İNSAN

Yıl 2004, Sayı: 40, 129 - 135, 01.12.2004

Fulya Bayraktar

Öz

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Man in Neo-Platonism

Öz

Behind the efforts of interpreting the being of man lies the idea that man is not only a physical being but also a metaphysical being. Regarding the man from the point of such a perspective places him at a privileged point in the universe. Among the thinkers who interpret man this way and determine him as the basis and goal of the universe are the Neo-Platonists. In this study, man will be analysed according to the philosophies of Plotinus who is known to be the first founder of Neo-Platonism as a system and Proclus who is said to have perfected the system. According to the aforementioned philosophers, the universe consists of the stages of a circular evolution that has startet finally to return to the “One Being” from which it has originally been emanated. Man is, in this respect, at the point of returning to that “One Being”.He is at a point where the universe emanating from the “One Being” has returned to it. Since it is a circular movement ,he is at the point where one can also witness the initiation of the movement. That is, man is a being that the “One Being” can contemplate itself in him and that he can contemplate it in himself. Man who is the subject matter of contemplation of the “One Being” ontologically is perfect in himself for the Neo-Platonists.However, the reaching of man at this level individually is possible by participating the movement of perfection, which is the ethical mission imposed on man by the Neo-Platonists.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Plotinus, Proclus, Neo-Platonism, emanation, contemplation, man, One Being.

Kaynakça

• Plotinus, The Six Enneads, Trans. Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page, published by William Benton, U.S.A., 1952
• Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides, Trans. Glenn R. Morrow and John M. Dillon, Princeton Un. Pres, 1987
• Copleston, F. S. J., A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1, Search Pres, London 1946