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Plotinus, IV: Ennead IV (Loeb Classical Library)

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Description: Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads). Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and the Stoics, whose writings he knew well but used critically. He is a unique combination of mystic and Hellenic rationa ... (more)
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 1 July 1989
ISBN-10 : 0674994884 | ISBN-13: 9780674994881
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