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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 6

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6. As for the disregard of desert- the good afflicted, the unworthy thriving- it is a sound explanation no doubt that to the good nothing is evil and to the evil nothing can be good: still the question remains why should what essentially offends our nature fall to the good while the wicked enjoy all it demands? How can such an allotment be approved?

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 6

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