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Plotinus

c. AD 204-270 · Greek philosopher in Rome, founding figure of Neoplatonism

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Plotinus was a third-century philosopher whose teaching in Rome became the central source of Neoplatonism. His student Porphyry arranged the treatises into six groups of nine, giving later philosophy and Christian theology a powerful language of procession, intellect, soul, and return.

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Enneads

Plotinus

c. 253-270 · Ancient · Philosophy

The Enneads collect Plotinus's treatises as arranged by his student Porphyry into six groups of nine. They do not form a continuous textbook, but they return again and again to a metaphysical pattern: all reality proceeds from the One, through Intellect, to Soul, and the philosophical life is a movement of return toward unity.

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