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1926. This edition contains both Volume I and II of this work. Plotinus is considered to be the founder of Neo-Platonism. Taking his lead from his reading of Plato, Plotinus developed a complex spiritual cosmology involving three hypostases: the One, the Intelligence, and the Soul. The philosophy of Plotinus is represented in the complete collection of his treatises, collected and edited by his student Porphyry into six books of nine treatises each. For this reason they have come down to us under the title of the Enneads. See other works available by this author from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1419185063. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:PAGEartp-qais—absence of essence. Vice not a privation of good in the soul. Privation again not a quality. The relation of Privation to Matter. Agreement of Privation and Matter in point of indeterminateness. The relation of Matter to indeterminateness. Indeterminateness not a property, but the essence of Matter. Matter not identical with all " otherness " or " difference," but only with difference from Being as such. Matter, then, or Not-being identical simply with privation of Being. Privation not destroyed by the advent of determination. Matter not in itself rendered good by its union with the Good ....... 259Further questions regarding the nature of moral evil. Vice not the same as the entrance of the Soul into Matter, body, and generation. Matter, then, the cause of evil in the soul. Plotinus's rejection of the Aristotelian theory of the particular—the r65e Ti—composed of Form and Matter. Abolition of all but a nominal distinction between moral and physical evil .... 270Matter as a physical substratum. Plotinus's adoption of the Aristotelian Argument. Form alone insufficient to account for Change. His criticism of the hylozoistic and atomistic theories of Matter. More detailed criticism of Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Anaximander, and Leucippus. Conclusion that Matter in itself is without qualities, primary or secondary ..... 274Intelligible Matter. Plotinus's distinction between intelligible and sensible Matter. Intelligible Matter the common quality and basis in the Ideas and Forms, i.e. Being. Matter implied or created by the Idea of Difference as the medium in which the differentiation of the Forms takes place. The indefiniteness of intelligible Matter an image of the infinity of the One ; the indeterminateness of sensible Matter the image of the indefinite- ne... ... Read more

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This study explicates Plotinus's doctrine of freedom by seeking to pay much attention to his thought, together with its background and underlying intentions. ... Read more

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A Metaphysical Study. "Casually introduced to the notice of the writer (Whitby), at an age when his mind must have been peculiarly susceptible to their significance, the Enneads of Plotinus took such a grip upon his imagination that for many months they seemed to have translated him bodily to the shining sphere of supersensual experience." Contents: Life of Plotinus; Ancient and Modern Methods; Neoplationism; Matter; The Universe; Individuality; The Problem of Evil; Providence and the Individual; Demons and the Demonic Faculty; Concerning Love and the Emotions; Substance or Corporeal Essence; Time and Eternity; Doctrine of the Soul; Individuality; Incarnation or Descension; The World-Soul as Basis of Movement; Intelligence, and the Intelligible World; Primal Categories or Elements of the Notion; Universal Number; Number and Unity; Time and Space in Eternity; Ideal Functions of Time and Space; Universal Differentiation; Intelligence and the One; The Cause of Beauty; The One; Potential Import of the Doctrine of Unity. ... Read more

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The mystical revelations of Plotinus, the great Neo-Platonist philosopher who taught in 3rd century Rome, have long been read and appreciated by scholars and theologians; but this new treatment of Plotinus explores his ideas and his influence upon the Western philosophical tradition in a way that is as accesssible to the modern lay reader as to scholars. This book,THE ORIGIN OF WESTERN MYSTICISM: Selected Writings of Plotinus is formed almost entirely of excerpts from Plotinus' book, the Enneads, arranged topically so as to facillitate a clear understanding of all elements of his metaphysical philosophy. And it includes a revealing Introduction, and commentaries by S. Abhayananda which should serve to open the way to a modern reevaluation of this great mystic's extraordinary vision. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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In Two Volumes. Being The Treatises Of The First Ennead With Porphyry's Life Of Plotinus And The Preller-Ritter Extracts Forming A Conspectus Of The Plotinian System. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Select Works of Plotinus, by G.R.S. Mead. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564594297. ... Read more

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Original essays be leading scholars on Plotinus' philosophy of nature. ... Read more