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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTAT...

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1. Are not Being and Reality (to on and he ousia) distinct; must we not envisage Being as the substance stripped of all else, while Reality is this same thing, Being, accompanied by the others- Movement, Rest, Identity, Difference- so that these are the specific constituents of Reality? The universal fabric, then, is Reality in which Being, Movement, and so on are separate constituents.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTAT...

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