Why is Beauty Form? Plotinus‘ Theory of Beauty in Phenomenological Perspective

Eric D. Perl is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles), working primarily in late antique philosophy. He is the author of Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite (State University of New York Press, 2007), and has published numerous articles on Plato, Plotinus and Pseudo-Dionysius. Recent essays include “‘E‘Every Life Is a Thought‘: The Analogy of Personhood in Neoplatonism,” Philosophy & Theology 18 (2006) and “The Togetherness of Thought and Being: A Phenomenological Reading of Plotinus‘ Doctrine ‘That the Intelligibles Are Not outside the Intellect‘,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 22 (2006). He can be reached by email at eperl@lmu.edu.