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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 12

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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…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 12

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