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

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3. The Whiteness, therefore, in a human being is, clearly, to be classed not as a quality but as an activity- the act of a power which can make white; and similarly what we think of as qualities in the Intellectual Realm should be known as activities; they are activities which to our minds take the appearance of quality from the fact that, differing in character among themselves, each of them is a particularity which, so to speak, distinguishes those Realities from each other. What, then…

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

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