Transgressing Boundaries:

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" Transgressing Boundaries: "
John D. Turner

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1067216
Doc. No	:	LA110845
Call No	:	‭10.1163/2451859X-12340005‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	John D. Turner
Title & Author	:	Transgressing Boundaries: [Article] : Plotinus and the Gnostics\ John D. Turner
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	1/1-2
Page No	:	56–85
Abstract	:	An examination of instances of Plotinus’s critique in the first ten chapters of Enneades ii.9, commonly called “Against the Gnostics,” regarding doctrines reflected in the Sethian Platonizing treatises and the Valentinian Tripartite Tractate insofar they may be appropriately considered as transgressions of Platonic metaphysics and of traditional principles of philosophical hermeneutics and etiquette that may or may not merit the designation “countercultural.” An examination of instances of Plotinus’s critique in the first ten chapters of Enneades ii.9, commonly called “Against the Gnostics,” regarding doctrines reflected in the Sethian Platonizing treatises and the Valentinian Tripartite Tractate insofar they may be appropriately considered as transgressions of Platonic metaphysics and of traditional principles of philosophical hermeneutics and etiquette that may or may not merit the designation “countercultural.”
Descriptor	:	Allogenes
Descriptor	:	Gnosticism
Descriptor	:	Late Ancient Philosophy
Descriptor	:	Plotinus
Descriptor	:	Tripartite Tractate
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/2451859X-12340005‬