Plotinus
PLOTINUS (205–270), founder of Neoplatonism. The Life of Plotinus, philosopher and mystic, was written by his pupil, Porphyry, who edited his master's lectures into six groups o...
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Plotinus
204?-270
Greek philosopher whose writings were posthumously published in six books called the Enneads. Plotinus studied at Alexandria and went on to teach in Rome. His writings reinterpreted ...
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Plotinus [addendum]
What is it, Plotinus asks (Plotinus 1956), that lures the eye toward a beautiful sight and that draws the ear to a beautiful sound? It is the thrill that the soul feels in sensing ...
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Plotinus(C. 205–270)
Plotinus, usually considered the founder of Neoplatonism, was probably born in Lykopolis, Upper Egypt, and he may have been a Hellenized Egyptian rather than a Greek. He tu...
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The Greek philosopher Plotinus (205-270) was the founder of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy, which became the most formidable rival of Christianity in the declining years of the ancient world.Plo...
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Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, was the last profoundly creative thinker of the ancient pagan world. He was an original and penetrating interpreter of Plato, and his importance in the history o...
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Biography EssayPlotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, was the last profoundly creative thinker of the ancient pagan world. He was an original and penetrating interpreter of Plato, and his importance i...
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