{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn086_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn086_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn086_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/plotenn/enn086.htm","summary":"12. If the existence of Matter be denied, the necessity of this Principle must be demonstrated from the treatises \"On Matter\" where the question is copiously treated. To deny Evil a place among realities is necessarily to do away with the Good as well, and even to deny the existence of anything desirable; it is to deny desire, avoidance and all intellectual act; for desire has Good for its object, aversion looks to Evil; all intellectual act, all Wisdom, deals with Good and Bad, and is itself\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 12","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":378}