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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 11

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11. Are we, then, to conclude that particular things are determined by Necessities rooted in Nature and by the sequence of causes, and that everything is as good as anything can be? No: the Reason-Principle is the sovereign, making all: it wills things as they are and, in its reasonable act, it produces even what we know as evil: it cannot desire all to be good: an artist would not make an animal all eyes; and in the same way, the Reason-Principle would not make all divine; it makes Gods but…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 11

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