Uncharted Knowledge Wisdom From Previous Realities
View as JSON for agents & LLMs

Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 4

Connected to
Plotinus (MacKenna)/Volume 1/Ennead 1.3 Similar meaning (67%) The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 5 Similar meaning (65%) Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle: Book VI. Intellectual Vi... Similar meaning (63%) The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 5 Similar meaning (62%)
Summary only - full text stays on its own separately-gated source. Read the full text at the source »
4. But this science, this Dialectic essential to all the three classes alike, what, in sum, is it? It is the Method, or Discipline, that brings with it the power of pronouncing with final truth upon the nature and relation of things- what each is, how it differs from others, what common quality all have, to what Kind each belongs and in what rank each stands in its Kind and whether its Being is Real-Being, and how many Beings there are, and how many non-Beings to be distinguished from Beings.

Related pages View as graph →