Plotinus
- proper noun
- /pləˈtaɪnəs/
- When Augustine converted in 386, he first articulated his disenchantment with Manicheanism by fastening onto Plotinus.
- thesis on Plotinus
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The spirit here is not too far from that of the Greek philosopher Plotinus, who wrote in his Enneads III.ii.15:
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Plotinus was an influential Roman philosopher, known for his role as the leading figure of Neoplatonism.
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In Plotinus, we find that the One is without form; it has no definition, no limit.
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The tradition had been taken up in full by Plotinus, whom Leibniz had studied in his youth.
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Plotinus therefore writes of God that this is a principle not to be conveyed by any sound.
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I defended my thesis on Plotinus in 1928 and published it in 1930.
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With the aid of Plotinus, he was able to see evil as simply the absence of good (privatio boni).
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The Six Enneads by the Neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus, translated by Stephen Mackenna and B. S.
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In this respect, it is interesting to observe how, in spite of the critique of writing found in Plato's Phaedrus, Plotinus employs written words to suggest the ever-presence of Plato's forms.
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Part and parcel of the tradition of soul elucidated above, a tradition that can be traced back through Plotinus, Plato, and Heraclitus, comes a very high esteem for humanity and the cosmos.
Academic text (2005)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Plotinus comes from the old Greek name Plotinos and was the personal name of a philosopher who lived in the 200s and was born in Egypt. He became the leader of Neoplatonism, so today Plotinus refers to that ancient thinker and his ideas.