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Here is a highly original synthesis of Platonism, mystic passion, ideas from Greek philosophy, and variants of the Trinity and other central tenets of Christian doctrine by the brilliant thinker who has had an immense influence on mystics and religious writers.

Plotinus' Enneads is a work which is central to the history of philosophy in late antiquity. This is the second edition of the first English translation of the complete works of Plotinus in one volume in seventy years, which also includes Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. Led by Lloyd... Read Full Overview

Plotinus' Enneads is a work which is central to the history of philosophy in late antiquity. This is the second edition of the first English translation of the complete works of Plotinus in one volume in seventy years, which also includes Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. Led by Lloyd... Read Full Overview

The best edition to dateof the unabridged definitive Stephen MacKenna translation.

Plotin: Enneaden Entstanden von 254 bis 270. Die Einteilung von Plotins Schriften in sechs Neunergruppen (Enneaden) stammt von Porphyrios, einem seiner Sch ler, der sie nach dem Tod des Lehrers herausgab. Erstdruck in lateinischer bersetzung durch Marsilio Ficino: Florenz 1492... Read Full Overview

Plotin vertrat einen radikalen idealistischen Monismus (Zur ckf hrung aller Ph nomene und Vorg nge auf ein einziges immaterielles Grundprinzip). Das Ziel seiner philosophischen Bem hungen bestand in der Ann herung an das "Eine", das Grundprinzip der gesamten Wirklichkeit, bis... Read Full Overview

The Six Enneads of PlotinusThe Six Enneads, sometimes abbreviated to The Enneads or Enneads, is the collection of writings of Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry (c. 270 AD). Plotinus was a student of Ammonius Saccas and they were founders of Neoplatonism. His... Read Full Overview

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview