Category Archives: Plotinus
PLOTINUS
(204–270)
from The Enneads
On Happiness
On the Primal Good and Secondary Forms of Good
‘The Reasoned Dismissal’
Plotinus, the founder and principal exponent of the philosophical school known as Neoplatonism, was born in Egypt; it is not clear whether he was Greek, Roman, or a Hellenized Egyptian. He had a Greek education. He studied for 11 … Continue reading
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