Plotinus

Abstract

This book is a guide to those wishing to read the works (the Enneads) of Plotinus, one of the greatest figures of ancient philosophy. The book provides an outline of Plotinus’ life and of the composition of the Enneads, placing Plotinus in the intellectual context of his time. Selected Plotinian texts are then discussed in relation to central issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics: soul and body, intelligible and sensible reality, Intellect, the One, speaking of the ineffable, the production of reality, evil, beauty, the human good, and mysticism. Plotinus’ historical importance is indicated. The book includes a guide to further reading, arranged by themes, and a bibliography.

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“…29). 66 However, as remarked above, Plotinus's understanding of the One transcends the very notion of 'good'; and this is why his conclusion is an implicit apophatic claim ('without envy'), rather than an explicit positive assertion. Plotinus leaves behind Plato's anthropomorphism, for he cannot search what cause led the One to produce (Enn.…”

“…As O'Meara remarks: the absolute simple activity, which is the One, 'gives rise to a secondary activity which is different from it.' 69 In this sense, where primary activity leads to secondary difference, the One is understood to be 'without envy'.…”