{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn475_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn475_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn475_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/enn475.htm","summary":"2. But individuals are brought into being by the union of the Reason-Principles of the parents, male and female: this seems to do away with a definite Reason-Principle for each of the offspring: one of the parents- the male let us say- is the source; and the offspring is determined not by Reason-Principles differing from child to child but by one only, the father's or that of the father's father. No: a distinct Reason-Principle may be the determinant for the child since the parent contains all\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 2","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":328}