Relationality as the Ground of Being
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* Article: Relationality as the Ground of Being: The One as Pure Relation in Plotinus. James Filler. The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, Apr 2019
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Abstract
"My main argument will be that Plotinus’ notion of The One is best understood as “pure relation”. I will argue that Aristotle’s understanding of relation as being determined by relata has been the dominant understanding and that this is wrong-headed, that relata are actually determined by relationality. Thus, relation is actually ontologically prior to the relata. This entails that the First Principle of Being is pure relation."