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.

• In Plotinus, we find that the One is without form; it has no definition, no limit.

  Academic text (1993)

• The tradition had been taken up in full by Plotinus, whom Leibniz had studied in his youth.

  Academic text (1998)

• Plotinus therefore writes of God that this is a principle not to be conveyed by any sound.

  Academic text (1993)

• I defended my thesis on Plotinus in 1928 and published it in 1930.

  Academic text (1991)

• With the aid of Plotinus, he was able to see evil as simply the absence of good (privatio boni).

  Academic text (1990)

• 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.

  Academic text (2000)

• 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)

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