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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 3

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3. We come now to that other mode of Likeness which, we read, is the fruit of the loftier virtues: discussing this we shall penetrate more deeply into the essence of the Civic Virtue and be able to define the nature of the higher kind whose existence we shall establish beyond doubt. To Plato, unmistakably, there are two distinct orders of virtue, and the civic does not suffice for Likeness: "Likeness to God," he says, "is a flight from this world's ways and things": in dealing with the…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 3

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