The Essence of Plotinus: Extracts from the Six Enneads and Porphyry's Life of Plotinus

The Essence of Plotinus: Extracts from the Six Enneads and Porphyry's Life of Plotinus

Plotinus
Philosophers -- Greece -- Biography
Philosophy

Plotinus

New York, Oxford University Press

1948

compiled by Grace H. Turnbull; foreword by the Very Reverend W.R. Inge, D.D

Extracts from Porphyry's life of Plotinus -- Outline of the system of Plotinus -- Extracts from the Enneads: The animate and the man -- Virtue -- Dialectic -- True happiness -- Time and happiness -- Beauty -- The primal good -- The nature and source of evil -- The reasoned dismissal (suicide) -- Against those that affirm the creation of the cosmos and the cosmos itself to be evil (generally quoted as against the gnostics) -- Fate -- Providence -- Our tutelary spirit -- Love -- The impassivity of the incorporeal -- Time and eternity -- Nature, contemplation and the one -- Problems of the soul I -- Problems of the soul II -- The immortality of the soul -- The soul's descent into body -- Are all souls one -- The three primal principles -- The transcendent -- The nature of the good -- The intellectual beauty -- The authentic existence -- The omnipresence of the authentic existence I -- The omnipresence of the authentic existence, II -- The good -- Free-will and the will of the one -- The good or the one.

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