1. Plotinus [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] A look at various aspects of plotinus' Neoplatonic system. Includes extensive suggestions for further Category Society Philosophy Philosophers plotinus......plotinus (204270 CE). plotinus is considered to be the founder of Neo-Platonism. plotinuswas born in 204 CE in Egypt, the exact location of which is unknown. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/plotinus.htm

Plotinus (204-270 C.E.) 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. It is from the productive unity of these three Beings that all existence emanates. The principal of emanation is not simply causal, but also contemplative. In his system, Plotinus raises intellectual contemplation to the status of a productive principle; and it is by virtue of contemplation that all existents are said to be united as a single, all-pervasive reality. In this sense, Plotinus is not a strict pantheist, yet his system does not permit the notion of creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothingness). In addition to his cosmology, Plotinus also developed a unique theory of sense-perception and knowledge, based on the idea that the mind plays an active role in shaping or ordering the objects of its perception, rather than passively receiving the data of sense experience (in this sense, Plotinus may be said to have anticipated the phenomenological theories of Husserl ). Plotinus' doctrine that the soul is composed of a higher and a lower part the higher part being unchangeable and divine (and aloof from the lower part, yet providing the lower part with life), while the lower part is the seat of the personality (and hence the passions and vices) led him to neglect an ethics of the individual human being in favor of a mystical or soteric doctrine of the soul's ascent to union with its higher part. 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

2. Island Of Freedom - Plotinus A short introduction to his life and ideas. http://www.island-of-freedom.com/PLOTINUS.HTM

Plotinus The Six Enneads The Six Enneads Plotinus was a Roman philosopher and the originator of neoplatonism. Plotinus was born in Asyut, Egypt, though his education and cultural background were completely Greek. In 232 he went to Alexandria and studied with the philosopher Ammonius Saccas (who flourished in the 1st half of 3rd century) for ten years and in about 244 went to Rome, where he established a school. Plotinus spoke on Pythagorean and Platonic wisdom and on asceticism; such was the impression made upon his hearers that some of them gave their fortunes to the poor, set their slaves free, and devoted themselves to lives of study and ascetic piety. At the age of 60, with the permission of the Roman emperor Gallienus, Plotinus planned to establish a communistic commonwealth on the model of The Republic by Plato , but the project failed because of the opposition of Gallienus's counselors. Plotinus continued to teach and write until his death. His works comprise 54 treatises in Greek, called the Enneads , 6 groups of 9 books each, an arrangement probably made by his student Porphyry (c.232-304), who edited his writings.

3. Plotinus A view of plotinus emphasizing pantheistic aspects of his philosophy. Includes quotes from his works.Category Society Philosophy Philosophers plotinus......plotinus union with the One. A history of pantheism and scientific pantheismby Paul Harrison. Are you a pantheist? Little is known about plotinus' life. http://members.aol.com/Heraklit1/plotinus.htm

Plotinus - union with the One. A history of pantheism and scientific pantheism by Paul Harrison. Are you a pantheist? Find out now at the Scientific Pantheism site. A sympathy pervades this single universe, like a single living creature, and the distant is near. Every interval, both large and small, is filled with Soul. Starburst galaxy NGC 1808 HST photo March 22 1998, J. Fllod, M. Mutchler and NASA. Little is known about Plotinus' life. He was born in AD 204-5 in Egypt. In his twenties he moved to the great centre of learning, Alexandria, to study philosophy. There he read the works of Aristotle and Plato, both of whom had a strong influence on his thought. He was also intrigued by the philosophies of Persia and India. Hoping to visit these countries, he joined the emperor Gordian's campaign against the Parthians, in 243 AD. The campaign ended in catastrophe when the emperor was assassinated in Mesopotamia. Plotinus escaped to Antioch. From there he made his way to Rome and opened an academy. He seems to have enjoyed intellectual discussion as much as lecturing. His star pupil Porphyry once questioned him about the relation of the soul to the body for three days on end. A man called Thaumasius complained that he had come to hear a lecture. Plotinus replied: "But unless we solve the problems raised by Porphyry's questions, we shall have nothing to say to put in the lecture." His great work, the Enneads, is made up of essays composed in response to problems raised in his seminar.

4. Hermetic Philosophy And The Mystery Of Being Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness. http://www.plotinus.com/

EGO - SOUL - SPIRIT - BEING ENTER BELOW With Frames Without Frames Essays and exercises on Eastern and Western Hermetic and Mystical Philosophies to awake Absolute Consciousness and unfold Primordial Wisdom. When we express ourselves with words, thoughts or feelings, we are under the impression that it is our mind and intellect that generate our thinking. It is true that we do have "thoughts" and use our "intellect" projecting around us "thought-forms" and psychic expressions of all kinds... But, all of these are passing illusions and realities, projections of our ego desires and wishes. The essays on this website are based on personal experiences and intensive research of ancient Egyptian and Greek religions and mystery schools, as well as modern mystical and esoteric traditions such as the Rosicrucian and Templar Traditions. These articles are intended to encourage readers interested in Hermetic, Gnostic and mystical philosophies to differentiate between our Real Nature which is rooted in Absolute Consciousness and the vehicle serving it... which is the ego and the five senses. Through these essays, we will try to encourage those of you who earnestly want to explore the inner dimensions of Consciousness and cross the threshold of the "Unknown" within oneself... and pass through the Portal of Initiation where the words

5. The Internet Classics Archive | Works By Plotinus Works by plotinus The Six Enneads Written 250 ACE Translated by StephenMackenna and BS Page Read discussion 31 comments © 19942000 http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plotinus.html

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6. Plotinus An introduction to his NeoPlatonic ideas, mysticism and importance. Includes bibliography and related links. http://www.kheper.net/topics/Neoplatonism/Plotinus.htm

Plotinus Plotinus (204/5-270 c.e.) was an Egyptian by birth but Greek (or Hellenistic) by upbringing. He studied philosophy in Alexandria under Ammonius Saccus, before joining a military campaign against Persia, where he encountered Indian ideas. He went to Rome c 244, where he taught until about 268. His lectures were only committed to writing later in life. As the central figure of Neoplatonism, Plotinus was the representative of a spiritual-philosophical tradition that begins with Plato or before, and passes through the stages of early post-Platonism and Middle Platonism Plotinus' metaphysics Emanation Central to Plotinus' metaphysics is the process of ceaseless emanation and outflowing from the One. Plotinus gives metaphors such as the radiation of heat from fire or cold from snow, fragrance from a flower or light from the sun. This basic theme reappears in the scholastic maxim that "good diffuses itself" ( bonum diffusivum sui ); entities that have achieved perfection of their own being do not keep that perfection to themselves, but spread it out by generating an external image of their internal activity This then leads to the idea that Arthur Lovejoy , in his book The Great Chain of Being , calls "the principle of plenitude". What this means is that emanation from the One cannot terminate until everything that has possibly come into existence has done so. Creation cannot stop at the world of the Gods, but must continue downwards through all possible levels of being and imperfection. Things cannot all be good, and indeed, as Plotinus says, the universe would be less perfect if they were, just as it may be necessary for a beautiful work of art that not all its parts are beautiful in isolation

7. Page Has Been Relocated Contains a short biography of the Hellenistic philosopher and details many of the metaphysical and mystical concepts attributed to his teachings. plotinus. plotinus (204/5270 c.e.) was an Egyptian by birth but Greek (or Hellenistic) by upbringing. http://www.kheper.auz.com/topics/Neoplatonism/Plotinus.htm

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8. The Internet Classics Archive | The Six Enneads By Plotinus A translation of this major work by Stephen MacKenna and BS Page, hosted by the Internet Classics Category Society Philosophy Philosophers plotinus Works......The Six Enneads By plotinus Written 250 ACE Translated by Stephen Mackenna andBS Page The Six Enneads has been divided into the following sections http://classics.mit.edu/Plotinus/enneads.html

Home Browse and Comment Search ... Help The Six Enneads By Plotinus Written 250 A.C.E. Translated by Stephen Mackenna and B. S. Page The Six Enneads has been divided into the following sections: The First Ennead The Second Ennead The Third Ennead The Fourth Ennead ... The Sixth Ennead Commentary: Many comments have been posted about The Six Enneads Read them or add your own Reader Recommendations: Recommend a Web site you feel is appropriate to this work, list recommended Web sites , or visit a random recommended Web site Download: A 1697k text-only version is available for download

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10. Who Was Plotinus? soul. (From the Internet Encyclopedia of philosophy). Some Sayings ofplotinus. Creation. The One is GOOD. plotinus and the Gnostics. In http://www.plotinus.com/who_was_plotinus.htm

PLOTINUS NOUS "Knowledge has three degrees: opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second dialectic; of the third, intuition." Plotinus , (Letter to Flaccus) LIFE OF PLOTINUS ABOUT THE "ONE" "NOUS", THE WORLD SOUL. RELIGION AND ETHICS. e reason why man on earth can not remain permanently in this state is that he has not yet succeeded in turning wholly away from the earthly; the time of permanent union will come when he is no longer tormented by any restlessness of the body. On the immortality of the soul Plotinus wrote a separate treatise, in which he follows Plato in the main, especially emphasizing the fact that the soul, as incorporeal and incomposite, is incapable of dissolution. A reunion of soul and body in the after life is inconceivable to him, since the passage into this higher life is conditioned by the desertion of the body, whose nature is in essential opposition to that of the soul. (From the Internet Encyclopedia of philosophy) Some Sayings of Plotinus Creation.

11. Page Has Been Relocated Neoplatonism was the last of the great schools of Greek philosophy; and the most mystical. It's founder plotinus and his successors taught an elaborate emanationist cosmology. Excellent article with keys and good explanations. http://www.kheper.auz.com/topics/Neoplatonism/Neoplatonism-history-of.htm

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12. The Green Library Original texts in Greek, Russian, Latin, French, English. In PDF format. The Greek authors are Aristotle, Plato, plotinus, and Porphyry. http://www.stormloader.com/cactus/

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13. The Philosophy Of Plotinus A concise systematic digest of plotinus' thought. From the Radical Academy. http://www.radicalacademy.com/philplotinus.htm

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14. The Philosophy Of Plotinus A concise systematic digest of plotinus' thought. From the Radical Academy.Category Society Philosophy Philosophers plotinus...... The Philosophy of plotinus. TABLE OF CONTENTS. plotinus (picture), who brought forththe last great system of Greek speculative philosophy, was born in Egypt. http://radicalacademy.com/philplotinus.htm

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15. Neo-Platonism [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] The revival of Greek philosophy in 3rd century BCE, led by plotinus and his disciple, Porphyry. Influenced by both Pythagoras and Plato. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/n/neoplato.htm

Neo-Platonism Neo-Platonism is a modern term used to designate the period of Platonic philosophy beginning with the work of Plotinus and ending with the closing of the Platonic Academy by the Emperor Justinian in 529 CE. This brand of Platonism, which is often described as 'mystical' or religious in nature, developed outside the mainstream of Academic Platonism. The origins of Neo-Platonism can be traced back to the era of Hellenistic syncretism which spawned such movements and schools of thought as Gnosticism and the Hermetic tradition. A major factor in this syncretism, and one which had an immense influence on the development of Platonic thought, was the introduction of the Jewish Scriptures into Greek intellectual circles via the translation known as the Septuagint . The encounter between the creation narrative of Genesis and the cosmology of Plato's Timaeus set in motion a long tradition of cosmological theorizing that finally culminated in the grand schema of Plotinus' Enneads . Plotinus' two major successors, Porphyry and Iamblichus, each developed, in their own way, certain isolated aspects of Plotinus' thought, but neither of them developed a rigorous philosophy to match that of their master. It was Proclus who, shortly before the closing of the Academy, bequeathed a systematic Platonic philosophy upon the world that in certain ways approached the sophistication of Plotinus. Finally, in the work of the so-called Pseudo-Dionysius, we find a grand synthesis of Platonic philosophy and Christian theology that was to exercise an immense influence on mediaeval mysticism and Renaissance Humanism.

16. BOOKSTORE: Plotinus BOOKSTORE plotinus. The Academy Bookstore Main Page. GENERAL DIRECTORY. Adventuresin Philosophy plotinus The Classic Philosophers plotinus. Basic Writings. http://radicalacademy.com/bksplotinus.htm

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17. Xrefer - Plotinus (204/5 - 270) Oxford Companion to Philosophy article by Christopher Kirwan. A brief overview of plotinus' life and thought, with bibliography. http://www.xrefer.com/entry/553199/

home library services showcase about select a topic search all art british history dictionaries encyclopedias health music philosophy place names quotations science shakespeare technology thesaurus Help xreferences Soul Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations Neoplatonism The Macmillan Encyclopedia 2001 soul idols The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Neoplatonism The Oxford Companion to Philosophy view all xreferences adjacent entries pleasure Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich (1856 - 1918) plenitude, principle of Plotinus (204/5 - 270) pluralism pluralism, political plurality of causes About The Oxford Companion to Philosophy from Oxford University Press Plotinus Platonist philosopher, initiator of what we call Neoplatonism. We do not know his origins. He studied for over eleven years at Alexandria. Then he joined a Roman military expedition to the East, in order to learn from Persian and Indian philosophers (so says his editor and biographer Porphyry). But the expedition was aborted, and he came to Rome, aged 40. There he earned court patronage and spent the rest of his life teaching. From the age of 50 he wrote in Greek a series of essays and shorter articles, chatty in style but at the same time difficult and earnest, and enriched with superb similes. After his death Porphyry chopped them up and gathered them into six groups of nine, the Enneads Plotinus was a contemplative, who sought contact with a supreme principle, the Good, or One. He tells us that he often achieved momentary success. Religious rites were useless for the purpose; what was needed was an ascent of the soul, away from bodily things. It demanded personal goodness - and Plotinus appears to have been conscientious and competent in his help and advice to friends, though he deprecated involvement in public affairs. It also demanded hard philosophical inquiry.

18. - Great Books - plotinus (205270), plotinus claimed to have received his teachingsfrom Ammonius Saccas, an illiterate dock-worker in Alexandria. http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_941.asp

Plotinus Plotinus, (died about A.D. 270) the father of Neo- Platonism , was born in Alexandria in Egypt; he studied there and in Mesopotamia, then settled in Rome and opened a school. Plotinus claimed to have received his teachings from Ammonius Saccas, an illiterate dock-worker in Alexandria. His most important work was the Six Enneads, in which he explains his philosophy. Plotinus taught the existence of an indescribable One, which emanated the rest of the universe as a sequence of lesser beings. Later Neo- Platonic philosophers, especially Iamblicus, added hundreds of intermediate gods and beings as emanations between the One and humanity; but Plotinus' system was much simpler in comparison. Neo- Platonism was frequently used as a philosophical foundation for paganism, and as a means of defending paganism against Christianity; but many Christians were also influenced by Neo- Platonism . [Adapted from Wikipedia The Great Books Plotinus This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas . These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. The

19. Plotinus Resources At Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base plotinus Resources at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base. plotinus OnlineTexts. The Enneads (at vt.edu). The Enneads (at Classics Archive). http://www.erraticimpact.com/~ancient/html/plotinus.htm

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