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Plotinus

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born

January 01, 0204 in Lycopolis, Egypt

died

January 01, 0270

gender

male

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Nonfiction, Philosophy, Metaphysics

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Plotinus (Greek: Πλωτῖνος) (ca. A.D. 204–270) was a major philosopher of the ancient world who is widely considered the founder of Neoplatonism (along with his teacher Ammonius Saccas). Neoplatonism was an influential philosophy in Late Antiquity. Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' Enneads. His metaphysical writings have inspired centuries of Pagan, Christian, Jewish, Islamic and Gnostic metaphysicians and mystics.

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Average rating: 3.91 · 368 ratings · 35 reviews · 55 distinct works

	The Enneads by Plotinus, Stephen MacKenna (Translator), John M. Dillon (Abridged by) 3.91 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 270 — 37 editions	My rating:
	The Six Enneads Of Plotinus (Forgotten Books) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1952 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Ausgewa&#X308;Hlte Schriften 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	An Essay on the Beautiful by Plotinus, Taylor Thomas 1758-1835 Thomas 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Philosophy of Plotinus: Representative Books from the Enneads by Plotinus, Joseph Katz (Editor & Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1950	My rating:
	The Six Enneads by Plotinus, B.S. Page, Stephen MacKenna 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	On Eternity and Time by Plotinus, Thomas Taylor 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	An Essay on the Beautiful. from the Greek of Plotinus 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Première Ennéade 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 254	My rating:
	On the Beautiful 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1955	My rating:

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Quotes by Plotinus

“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
― Plotinus

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“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”
― Plotinus

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“Withdraw into yourself and look.”
― Plotinus

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